Jun 07, 2009
Capt. Devlin-Reel Peace charters
Venice, :A USA
What a Weekend! I started out my weekend a bit behind Capt. Peace, Capt. Darrel and Capt. Andy. They all fished Friday and I was lucky enough to have a Friday night Swordfish trip. The rest of the crew were greeted with some stout winds friday morning but managed to catch some really nice Tuna and a bunch of nice dolphin. They said that the bite was very good. By the time that I departed for my Sword trip with Team West Coast, the winds had died down. We started ourt trip way out on a rip that I had heard was hot earlier but didn't produce for us. We saw 2 different Blue Marlin crashing baity but the shunned us. We did pick up a nice dolphin though. As Dark approached, we found a spot for a long drift but soon after dark, the current died. I made an executive decision to move and Deckie Amos and I concured on a likely spot and made the move. The Current was better and we actually had a hard time getting a full 3 bait spread out because the Swordfish kept eating the bait out of my hand. James, Len, David and Marty all got a shot at a Swordfish in a matter of two hours. All but Marty landed there's with his Jumping off not too far from the boat. Fortunatly for us, The fish gods had a treat for us and Marty was the lucky angler. Our middle bait had been the bait getting bit by the swordies so when our deep bait went off and acted strangly, I figured that we might have a shark or something. Marty put a whipping on the fish and it was soon at leader. I looked down in the water and saw something glowing green and I knew that we were lucky. Marty kept reeling and real soon, Amos sunk a gaff in a 50 pound Escolar. Now, that is some fine eating and the icing on our cake. The current fell out and the fishing died off. We ended up going 3 for 4 on Swords releasing 2 and keeping a fat 150 pounder for the table.Saturday, Peace and Andy once again got on the fish. Andy's crew had the big fish with a nice 130 pounder. They also put some nice Dolphin in the boat. Peace and crew focused on Tuna in the morning and picked up a limit of Snapper in the afternoon.
Sunday, The weather was as good as it gets. Peace, Andy and I fished. As I write this, Peace and Andy are still on the water, so I dont have there report but I had a great day with Ken Baggot and crew. Ken had a 3 man crew and It could have not worked out better. We started out the day in small fish and made a quick move only to find some serious studs. Our first fish at the second spot was our best of the day at 135. The second went 115 and the third went 125. We added a 40 pounder as we were fighting number 3 and broke a couple off before hooking number 3 but once he hit the box, the crew said no mas. These fish were bad to the bone and the crew felt it. We even managed to make it in a bit early and I can't tell you haw nice that was.
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