Yellowfin running wild

Fintastic.Inc

Took a last minute trip to Venice La last week with the boss to see if we could take part in the Yellowfin fishery they have up there. Let me tell ya, it is unreal to say the least. Fished some floater rigs from 6000 ft the 1st day to 700 ft the 2nd and there were fish all over all of them. We had fish ranging from 40-100 lbs, on both live baits and topwater plugs.

Ill try to get the pics up.

Popeye

Man! thanks for this post. You got em! Good work. Wow, what a life huh.

tokinred

Looks like an awesome trip. I have soy sauce, will travel. When's dinner?????

Mackeral Snatcher

Nice pics, those will flat wear you out, my arms hurt just looking at those pics.:grin
Now I am gonna have to find some yellowfin steaks for dinner.

Tyson Brown

BEautiful fish - what colors.

djsmallz

Wow, nice fish, I vote for non working rigs of any sort in this area so we can have at it like that as well

gordo35

Looks like Mars or Ursa in the background? Venice is an awesome place with great people and geography that allows you to fish for something in almost any kind of weather. I moved down here from Mississippi almost 4 years ago and still try to get back twice a year to fish with my old fishing buddies back there to get my fix.

Popeye

Saw ya on the local news, with Capt. Doug. Fish n chips segment. Or was it Finatic charters?

Fintastic.Inc

Popeye wrote: »

Saw ya on the local news, with Capt. Doug. Fish n chips segment. Or was it Finatic charters?

Fintastic is my charter biz. I've been doing the offshore trips for them for about 5 years now. We have some good ones coming up soon, with Blackfin,Yellowtails, and Grouper fishing.

the great wall

fantastic trip capt steve. I had two good trips this year, went 6/8 on a full day private in march and 7/7 in a charter this july. What was your tally for the two days?

I'm saving up my $$ now, planning a june trip with mike ellis, and a overnighter on a friends boat, maybe even a third full day if we don't get burnt out. Lemme know if you want in, id be nice to carpool the way up. We have free lodging, and fishing on my buddies boat is just split fuel, only 1 day of charter expenses.

Fintastic.Inc

Capt. Mike is the man up there.
We had I believe 9 fish total for both days. The fish were all over the place on the surface but were pretty spooked, and would not stay up for long. I an heading back up there next month for the bigger fish so Ill keep ya posted.

the great wall

Make sure you have the crack baits. You can catch em on the shallow rigs, but I prefer to pull up to a weedline, make a small hole with your rod tip in the middle of it, and work the sabiki like your icefishing the hole. You get the small 4-5 inch hardtail baits that way. Last time I went to our rig, on the shelf we found out we shouldn't have wasted the first two hours looking for the hardtails, as they were on the rig we were fishing. PM me for the rig spots.

BTW, good luck next month on the larger tunas behind the shrimp boats at the lumps, wish I could go! :fishing

Reel-Lucky

Good looking tuna there, nice job Steve.

Idlewilde

Nice pics. :thumbsup

johnD

Awesome !!! :beer

Tyson Brown

the great wall wrote: »

Make sure you have the crack baits. You can catch em on the shallow rigs, but I prefer to pull up to a weedline, make a small hole with your rod tip in the middle of it, and work the sabiki like your icefishing the hole. You get the small 4-5 inch hardtail baits that way.

What are "hardtail baits" / "crack baits"? Thanks!

gordo35

"Hardtail baits" are Hardtails, aka Blue Runners. "Crack baits" are baby hardtails, namely the 3-4" or so variety.

Tyson Brown

Thanks! My first guess was runners.

AAngler

Awesome