Jun 17, 2009
Capt. Devlin - Reel Peace Charters
Venice, LA USA
June has always been one of my favorite times to fish in Venice. The Dolphin and tuna are usually plentiful and hungry. The Swordfish are here in good numbers and you never know when a monster Blur Marlin might pile on a bait. This June has been no exception.We have had a good rip most days in the last two weeks, but it has been pushing south for the last couple of days. That is until today. Today it had finally pushed back in a bit and the action on it was great. My crew and I spent a relative relaxing day live baiting on the rip. We caught a few nice dolphin and them we watched a big Blue Marlin come up and crash some Chicken Dolphin. We put out fresh baits and hung out by the same grass patch that he had been on. About 10 minutes later, he came up on one of our baits and we fed him forever. When Bo came tight on him, he went straight down. 10 minutes later, he came up jumping and greyhounding right at the boat. We all hooted and hollared, except for bo, He just reeled. And he kept on reeling for the next hour when we got the pig boat side for a few pics and released him to fight again. Needless to say, all had a great time. Peace and Andy had the other two boats from our 3 boat trip today. Peace had some nice yellowfin, one pushing 100 and the other right over 100 and several nice Dolphin. Andy was still out when I left the Marina. Peace said that he was having a tough day when he left him, but didn't know what he had in the box.
On Monday and Tuesday, I fished with the Ernest Slaughter crew. We fished the rip on Monday and Tuna on Tuesday. We had 9 dolphin on Monday and 3 yellows and some blacks on Tuesday. Tuesday, we made a very long run only to find dirty Green water. We made the best of in but we really had to work hard for them.
Saturday night I fished with some of my favorite Yankees from Mass, Team redsox. We had a blast and kept 9 Yellows up to 120, a few blacks and a few Dolphin, we stopped at what would fit on the plane home. We really had a blast and were even treated to some great grilled fresh tuna just before sundown by capt. Chef Lee.
Friday, I fished the home builders tournament with David Sides and crew. We started out the day with a Nice yellowfin in dirty water and then headed south in search of the rip. We had just set baits when big moma came in on the short corner and almost smoked an 80W. She put on a great show for several minutes and then she was gone. The wind on broke and we were crushed. Little did we know that that would just be the beginning of our Marlin woes that day. We reset the baits and in 10 minutes, another big blue came up on the short rigger. She followed for a while and then she pounced. We had her on for 10 minutes and pulled the hook. I was crushed but checked out the hooks and everything was sharp. Back out the spread wnet and a few dolphin later, a bit of a lull set in. Just as every one was starting to chat instead of looking at the baits, a third Marlin piled on a Cajun Yap on the long rigger. Again, we pulled the hook on it. I put the baits out and turned around on the line. We caught some more dolphin and just as I was about to pull the baits in, number 4 smoled the long rigger and yes, we pulled the hook again. I was once again fumming mad at the marlin. That is untill I realized that I had just hooked more marlin in one day than I had seen in the previous week combined. It was the best tough day that I have ever had and David and crew were happy as could be. You don't get 4 shots in one day in the Gulf very often.
We still have days open in.July and Augest, including one boat on the 4th of July weekend. We also had a cancelation for my boat for next Saturday. Give us a call to get in on the action.
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