|
|
| |
 | Venice Fishing Pier, Venice Florida
07/01/08 6:53 AM
Gary Anderson | FOOTBALL FIELDS OF FISH!
Venice Florida Fishing Pier:
On again, off again…plenty of hot action has been found on the pier this week. Schools of baitfish the size of football fields have attracted tarpon, sharks, cobia, snook, and even a few redfish this week. Tarpon have been running through the pilings early in the morning. Angling the daisy chain is a sure hook-up if using a weighted streamer and a purple and black saddle hackle known in some circles as the “Blue Death.” This Blue Death is an outstanding fly and Inshore Florida will soon be carrying it in their online shop, along with an entire new line of dry and wet African Hand Tied flies in the near future. Be sure to check out the thumb protectors too, Thumb Dingers saving your thumb and slowing down a running fish at the same time, protection you need if using the new braids or power lines.
Reports of other anglers hooking Poons with spoons, live baitfish, and plugs resembling the smaller baitfish came from Papa’s the bait Shoppe on the pier with catch and release snook action falling into an unbelievable category on the Venice City Fishing Pier between the shoreline and just past the bait house or the third sandbar. We had several fish over the slot. Free lining a live bait like a pinfish or large threadfin has produced the best bets in the late afternoon. Yesterday, Friday the 26th, bait pods were so thick between these two points you could not see the bottom with snook corralling them into balls of bait forty-yards round and in a dash of vengeance the water boiled like a school of jacks feeding at the surface. Twenty to more pounders leaping out of the water and becoming flying fish at distances of fifteen feet or more; an astonishing sight to see! I saw more snook and CPR (Catch, Photograph and Release) preformed yesterday in a hour than I have ever seen in my lifetime in fishing the Venice Pier and that is around fifteen years now. Tarpon, tarpon everywhere and some big ones too. The tarpon are plentiful and cooperating when the winds let us locate em. Crabs are your best bet but are still hard to find; although Edwin Anderson, using a Pfluger with twelve-pound test fluorocarbon chunking a Chartreuse Gotcha last night hung into a big boy for about thirteen minutes, just after sunset, two leaps and a dance of the tail with this hundred pound plus gentle giant all but stripping the reel and a break off at the leader. It was not a long battle but thrilling to be his first encounter and hook up!
|
|
|
|
|
Fishing Reports
Fishing Calendar
