Tuna Fishing Super Bowl Sunday!

OPEN BOAT SATURDAY SUNDAY AND MONDAY (FEB 13,14&15)

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY'S TRIP

We had Mike's crew from Texas on the boat Sunday for a little Venice tuna fishing. They were originally booked with another captain for that Friday and Saturday but the wind blew them out so I was able to snag them for Sunday. This was a great crew of guys to have out fishing, we had a blast!

We left the dock at 5 am Sunday morning. It was a bit cool on the water but the being a little cool meant no fog so we made good time to the gulf. Sea's were a little rough at first but after we got the Glacier Bay on step, it really wasnt bad.

We started off by trolling for wahoo at a few rigs. First bait in the water starts to scream, I am pumped at this point. Got the fish boat side and its a tuna, no, a wahoo, no, its a damn king!! ha ha! O well, got the blood pumping anyway. We hit a few more rigs with nothing to show for it. We decided to try our hand at amberjack but bait was a problem. I had a couple of decent live ones. Sent the first one down about 150 ft and BAM, fish on!! Landed about a 40 pound AJ then got a hit on the other bait but nothing. Jigs are great right now as well but after that we decided to start tuna fishing.

After we had donated about 4 packs of hooks to the kings and sharks, we got our first fish on but I thought I saw a bonita take the bait and then a shark was chasing it. After the fish took off like crazy, we thought ok, the shark has it now! Like a fool, I push the drag to full so we can make quick work of this shark. We did make good time on bringing the fish up but this shark had yellow fins hanging off of it! We were able to hook up and land one more after that and then the sharks took over.

We spent the next two hours or so playing hide and seek and then it was like we could do no wrong! We doubled up like three times. We lost one fish on two different drifts but got the other one and landed both fish on one of the doubles! We had the fish box to the top and it was almost time to head back for the Super Bowl. The guys wanted one more fish, sent lines back out and within about three mins, FISH ON!!!!!!

We landed that fish and headed for the barn at about 3pm, that fish put us at 7 yellowfin 60-100 pounds and 2 amberjack around 40 pounds!

One of the amberjack was caught while tuna fishing! The other on live bait!

All tuna were caught on cut bonita! (I know Capt Gray, they are little tunny) ha ha!!

Please check out the Video from Sunday, this will let you see exactly what you can expect while fishing Venice in the winter!


Capt Gray and I still have plenty of open dates for you to fish in Feb and March! We want your business, give us a shot, I know you will be happy with our effort!!

Capt Josh Howard
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Super Bowl Sunday! Who Dat?

Had an awesome day fishing Super Bowl Sunday! Ended the day with seven yellowfin and two amberjack! Here is the video! Full report will follow soon!

haywire twist

Here is a video from one of our pro staff companies, Frenzy Big Game Tackle! Capt Bill Delabar shows the correct way to tie a haywire twist! I am sure Gray will say that I need to watch it! He doesnt like how I tie mine but they always hold up! ha ha! This is how we rig all of our wahoo baits!

WIND WIND AND DIRTY WATER

It has been a rough start to our winter fishing season. I have faith that things will turn around but it has been hell! The wind will not sop and than on top of that, it is blowing from the wrong direction. We need a south or east wind to push clean water our way, instead we have a noth with blowing all of that cold cold dirty river water into the gulf, making our tuna fishing very hard.

The rough seas have been keeping us at the dock most days, Gray and I had to cancel both boats for this weekend, TOO ROUGH!! I think I am fishing sunday, you would know, (SUPER BOWL SUNDAY) everyone has sold me out, cant find a deckhand that will fish this day to save my life, Aaron told me that this was his day off so I will prob have to fly solo!

I think we will be looking for wahoo, amberjack and grouper and maybe if we get lucky and the water cleans up, maybe we will find some tuna!

Gray seems to think that all of this cold weather will keep the tuna and wahoo in close a little longer this year, I hope he is right. That would make my year!! After a super bad duck season, we need a little luck, we need plenty of big fish to hang around for a while!

It has been a pretty good start to the wahoo bite. On days that we have been able to get out, and others, the wahoo have been there. If you want to catch wahoo, watch the moon, I believe in that moon on the wahoo. before and after a full moon and a new moon, I find the full moon is the best!

I will try to keep you up to date on the offshore action. If you have questions, please email me at deepsouthcharters@cox.net or through the site at www.deepsouthcharters.com ! I will post your questions here and answer them if I can, If I cant then I will find the answer for you! I will ask Gray, he thinks that he knows everything!!



Capt Josh