Venice

[deepsouthcharters]

Been a while since a post. I've had many irons in the fire and a PC in much need of a shop. Fresh out of the shop today and so far so good.

We recently got the 38 Sea Hunter back from Miami....had the tower removed, stickers put on the side, plenty of other things done while it was there...she is ready to rock. Capt Nick has been fishing it the last few days. Fishing has been good overall but pretty tough today. Nick said he just watched tuna slow roll all day. They ended up with a few tuna but was late back to the dock. Same crew tomorrow so hope for better results.

Our wahoo season was good. Caught several big hooters and good numbers. In the really rough stuff the new boat plowed thru weaves like a champ. 38 ft is a lot of boat.

Yellowfin and blackfin is mainly what's going on right now. Nick did have a good wahoo yesterday but the numbers on the hooters have decreased but we typically see a showing in mid march so never know. We are beginning to move away from the salt domes now and are concentrating on the floaters. We have some live bait around so that helps. Live bait, chunks of red meat and poppers will all produce fish in the next couple of months. We will start to scale back from 80 fluoro to 60 now. Seaguar premier is my fluorocarbon of choice. On hook size...that really depends on bait size. You will match the hook to the bait. I will use 6/0 and 7/0 the most but sometimes I drop as low as 5/0 and as big as 9/0.



Capt Josh Howard