Anybody freelanced Venice For Tuna?

[DG34YF]

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[lil 2 sleepy]

I had this idea and took a boat down and intended to leave at Cypress Cove and go back and forth. Broke a driveshaft inside the block and had to limp in 60 miles on trip 1. Left the boat for 2 months but had to bring it home to fix. Never made it back.

It sounds great but being able to do it enough to justify is freaking hard. Hiring a freelance captain for a day or three on your own boat for $500/day, is the fastest way to get a good track on the gps and finding fish.

At a minimum follow a few well know boats out the cuts. Stay on plane and right on their ass

[scdiver]

Been to Venice 3 times, offshore twice, they didn't want to fish the third time because it was 4x6 blowing 20kts.

November, March and Sept.

Probably a learning curve to it and like other areas charter guys won't respond well to you following them to their rigs and areas.

Go for it, and enjoy

[Big Hud]

I'm heading down March 10 we're fishing with Brett Ryan

[mudflat]

Have a 27ft Seahunt with radar. Thanks for all the info and PM's sent. Will be 3 guys maybe 4.
It's going to take a bunch of stars to align for this to happen.

[bitesize]

When I lived down there I learned pretty quick that the gulf forecast and what we’re used to is very different. 4’ stacked seas down there are no joke especially when you need to run 100 miles to get home. Weather can change quickly and you don’t want to FAFO running any of the smaller passes if you don’t know what you’re doing. All the spots mentioned- lump, Mars, etc will generally hold fish- use your radar and see where the boats are congregated and start there. Good suggestions on here for tackle and technique- bit of a learning curve when chunking but you will figure it out if the fish are biting. Don’t discount trolling!

** edit to add- don’t leave the dock in the fog!

[JABIII]

[tprice]

VERY cool video. My kind of fishermen

SEA PRO rules

[Short_track_champ]

Not sure if this helps you at all but out in my neck of the woods "people" use MarineTraffic to get a general idea of where the bite might be happening.

Doesn't really help much if the boats in the area are Not using AIS though.