Another up and down week of offshore fishing. The weather has been absolutely beautiful with the exception of Wed. It was a little windy but not that bad. On Wed. we had the Parker gang from North Louisiana. Snapper were the targeted species. Well, we got'em quick. They limited by 8:00 a.m. and we went in search of Cobia. None of the snapper were over 18 inches. Most of them were on the smaller size. No Cobia Found. We covered 30 miles of rigs, pipes, and grass lines and never saw the first one. But I have never had good luck with cobes on windy days so I am not that surprised. On Thurs. we had the Bobby Bolton crew and all they wanted was Tuna. After discussing the way the tuna bite has been lately. Slow, Slow, Slow. They were still hard pressed to go searching and hope we would get lucky. After all, everyday is a different day when you go after the bluewater species and we figured we could still pick up a couple of Dolphin. Wrong! No Tuna and no Dolphin. We ran out to the 50 mile floaters and it was like a ghost town. Nothing moving, no splashing anywhere. After about 35 minutes of fishing with the perfect sized baits and losing a few to the barracudas, which have been a royal pain in the a__ so far this year we decided to go back in for some snapper. We found 10 snapper and 1 cobia and called it a day. Yesterday, we took out Lyle Russell and Crew. We had an easy limit of snapper from 17-19 inches and the fastest limit of A.J.'s I've ever seen. The A.J.'s were about 10 ft. down and thicker than ever. Gotta like it. Now, about the bluewater fishing. I went back to what we had last year during this time and as far as the tuna and dolphin catch went. We caught more tuna last year by this time and the dolphin catch is above last years catch at this time. Snapper fishing so far this year bypasses last years catch at this time by 100%. The tuna bite is about to turn wide open. It has been slow for about almost a month now and it won't be long. Any day I would guess. The rip lines are forming up very good so their should be plenty of catches of dolphin and marlin. I know yesterday the boats that fished the rip lines did very good. We have the guys from Marlin Magazine coming in this week so we will be fishing mainly for, of course Marlin. Should be a great week and we will post as soon as we can. Still no internet service in Venice. Installer didn't show. Hopefully this week. We still have open days left in June. The gulf has been as calm as it gets and everything is starting to come together for some incredible fishing.
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