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Wild weekend
One more knockdown and the grass moved in and made it impossable to troll so we packed it in with 1 for 4. Off to get dirty on the lump. We were lucky to find the bonito quickly to reinforce our bait. As the day went we had plenty of action but we had 3 tuna throw the hooks. We even used our hooks as dehookers. We fought the fish for a long time only to have the line come in like this. You can just barely see it but the lower hook had already started rusting a lot. One Yellowfin around a hundred we lost as the customer allowed it to run high around the boat and get cut off in the motors before I could get the rod from him. The sharks were also on scene to provide excitement. 2 large hammerheads bothered us untill we hooked one and got it to realize he was not in a good spot. We did manage to pick at a few yellows and blacks for the day. At the end of the day with all our crazy unfortunate luck we had a hand full of fish to hang. I had to get ready for a trip the next day so I went home to get my boat and equipment to bring back to the marina. Once back at the marina the event I was to participate in was into drinking and party mode. I know many have never seen a Neutria rat rodio but this year was the second annual one here in Venice. There were a lot of female participants this year also. Around 200 rats bit the bullet. There is a bounty of $5.00 per tail. The money will be saved for setting up next year's rodeo. Last year there also were 5 hogs. This year only 4 of these guys came by to visit. We clean fish, ducks, pigs and Ya never know! The food was plentifull. As I was heading home around 10:00 at night the rat toss contest was getting under way. They had a male and female division. I could not stay because I had a morning trip. This was a fixed price nearshore trip. The forecast was for bad weather in the afternoon so when I hit the gulf I tried to go an extra 14 miles out to find amberjack and wahoo before we settled in on bottom dunking. The grass was too much to attempt any trolling as you may see in the pictures. I did find some decent amberjack though. First Tyler then his son Tommy. We then went back into East Bay and started picking away at the redfish. Check out the color on this one. We already had our limit so it went back to please somebody else in the future. We found many different types of fish today. Red snapper, croaker, white trout, redfish, amberjack, sheepshead, hard head catfish, and sail catfish, as well as our targeted lane snapper. Only got 5 hours sleep this weekend but it was very eventfull and rewarding. Life is Good! Fishing is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. CAPT HOOP -- OUR FREEDOM |
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What an awesome report!! Nice hauls capt. Looks like a good time in the best state in the country!!!
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Good Job Cap.............I participated in a Nutria Toss quite a few times
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you da man hoop!!!
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WTG Capt.
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I always enjoy reading your posts and seeing your pictures. Nice job as usual!
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