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Louisiana - Venice & the Gulf of Mexico
Capt. Damon McKnight
March 26, 2007
Venice - Saltwater Fishing Report
Venice, La. Offshore Fishing
Another good weekend of offshore fishing. The weather was a little on the rough side but not bad. On Friday morning we had the Jared Peranio group down. They were fishing the Venice Winter Invitational so of course they wanted to catch some winning fish. With the conditions we had I was a little worried, I wasn't sure how far we would be able to run and we would be limited as to what we could do. Our first stop was our last stop. We put four lines out for Wahoo, and not 5 minutes after the lines were set we had a quadruple. All four lines went off, one after another. I haven't seen this happen in a long time, so that meant complete chaos. The crew landed 3 out of the 4 and although it looked like an unorganized line twisting mess they did a great job, although I have never seen anyone pass the rod on a wahoo, they did. After another 1.5 hours trolling we put three more wahoo in the boat and missed two more. By then the guys were feeling sea sick and called it a day. It was a quick morning bite and they ended going 6 for 9. Not a bad ratio when it comes to wahoo fishing. They ended up getting 2nd and 3rd place wahoo with a 60lb. and 59lb. hoo. Also, on Friday Capt. Bob had the Robert Nieto crew, they were in the invitational as well. They had a slow day with the tuna but did put the 1st place Amberjack on the board which weighed in at 67lbs. Congrats. to Robert Nieto. On Saturday we had a big crew down to fish with us. Capt. Bob and Capt. Britan took out the Don Cook gang. They were looking to just bend a rod with the kids and that is exactly what they did catching one Yellow fin tuna, plenty of Beeliners, Amberjack, Mackerel, and a few sharks. I took out the James Davis and his wife. With the way the wahoo bit on Friday we all decided that would be the best thing for us to do. As soon as we got to our spot we picked up to nice wahoo right from the start. After that we could have called it a day. We had three more hits which we lost and a barracuda. Called it a day at 2:00 and headed to the dock. Yesterday I had the Jerry Teachout crew from Panama City, Florida and their friends from Georgia. All they wanted to catch was Yellow fin tuna. I told him the tuna fishing had been tough lately but we will do the best we can. The weather cooperated yesterday, the seas were much calmer than the day before and everything was looking good. Once again our first stop would be our last. First two lines out produced two yellow fin tuna, after that it was non-stop and the guys put 18 Yellow fin tuna in the boat by noon. Our largest fish went 60 lbs. and 40lbs., the rest were between 20-30lbs. It was nice to see the tuna bite like this because it doesn't happen very often. We still have some open days in April.
Damon McKnight/Super Strike Charters/1 800 318 1720
WWW.SUPERSTRIKECHARTERS.COM
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