Fresh Venice Fishing Reports

What a great morning with a fun family< The kids did a great job of reeling in a bunch of Redfish, Sheepshead, Black Drum and Redfish and even left a few for the adults to reel in. After a couple hours of fishing we headed to one of the local beaches where they found a bunch of fossilized shark teeth and shells to end the day.

The cooler waters have really made the fishing great lately. This morning my clients caught a bunch of Redfish, Sheepshead, Snappers, Black Drum and even a few small Flounder as we fished our way around some structure in the south bay. Clients were looking to take home just enough fish for a meal and the rest were safely released back into the waters.

The boys wanted to try for Tarpon but the peak of Tarpon season is over and targeting them can be difficult at times. I moved is into an area of backcountry shoreline where I have been seeing some smaller tarpon rolling recently. Immediately we saw the first few fish roll and eventually landed a couple of these fun sized Tarpon. Afterwards we made our way north towards Sarasota Bay and the remainder of the morning targeted Snook and Snappers along structure and ultimately finding a large school of permit which produced double after double hook-ups for the remainder of the trip.

Fishing out of Venice, Florida it was non-stop action with lots of Redfish, Snook, Snappers, and Sheepshead bending rods and pulling drag all afternoon long.

The inshore fishing has been really hot lately since the water temperatures have dropped. On this morning the Redfish bite was intense with lots of perfect slot-size fish being caught. As we moved around fishing structure we also caught very god numbers of Flounder, Sheepshead, and Snappers to round out the morning.

This was only High Class Hooker Charters' second trip since Hurricane Ian came through our area. Fortunately, our area was sparred any major damage and we have been able to resume fishing. The bite was hot this morning. We started out looking for some small tarpon in a couple of areas in the south bay. Unfortunately they weren't really active and after seeing only a couple rolling fish we decided to move up the bay and try and find some fish that wanted to eat. After a move up the bay we were rewarded with lots of Redfish, some Black Drum, Sheepshead and Mangrove Snapper. Finally we made a move into a backcountry area and finished up on some active Snook to end the day.