Venice Pier Anglers
1600 Harbor Drive South
The Venice Fishing Pier where "You Caught the Big One!"
Venice, FL 34285
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1600 Harbor Drive South Venice Pier Anglers
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Ruth Anderson
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"We have Bait, Fly, Soft Plastic and Top water fishermen who all seem to have a very different focus. There are some user conflicts arising. One group seems to think the other is taking more than their fair share of fish. Some want to have areas designated for specific use only such as no motor zones or wade fishing only. The tournament fishermen are after the trophy big dollar catch. The guy who occasionally fishes just wants a few fish to have for dinner." And it all could down to a crashing end! Are you interested in being able to fish next week? Next Year or how about to only to a select few select people; NOT YOU because NOAA said so. Like that idea? I think it stinks like a red herring left out in the trash can too long. Want to continue to fish? Join our FREE group of America's top elite anglers to just guys like you and me. Together we can fish next week and if we are lucky, next year if YOU GET INVOLVED!
The Shark-Tooth Coast
End of the year report!
With colder temperatures again here along our Shark-Tooth Coast, Charlotte Harbor through Nokomis Florida, anglers can expect to find much of the action taking place in the deeper waters of the Venice Inlet, as well as in holes throughout the canals, under docks and piers of the area. Live shrimp fished very slowly in these areas are catching trout, black drum and redfish. Best bet right now around Venice, Florida is the Alley, which is accessible both by boat and along its shoreline of the ICW. El Jobean pier has trout, mangroves and some slow to go big Snook up under the boards. Plenty of Sugar Trout to eat up your baits to, so bring the kids because, there is a lot of catching to do and they don't care; they caught a fish. Remember those days? As usual, plenty of ray to go along too, so be careful of the tail. Placida as well, Englewood on these cold snaps on the incoming tide, early in the frigid mornings have been producing nice heads (Sheepshead) on shrimp to fiddlers. The rocks to along the inlet will pull up a head or two along with the Mangos and many a tackle eating rock. Lots of rockfish to loose your rigs to, so bring plenty of gear. Before the blow of Christmas, reports of a few flounder off both Venice and Nokomis beaches on DOA or Luv lures pulled dead slow and using cut bait to live shrimp. Sharks to big Jew fish (Goliath) have been caught off the boards in Venice out on the “T” with those with serious gear, as that is to what they are fishing for and big boys are but what are out there. Cut baits to live mullets on six to eight foot and longer steel wire and 12/0 or better hooks, generally mean big fish. Boaters in the area are talking about the tripletail out along the crab-lines and a few Cobia too.
Back
in the canals to the river it has been slow to no on the Bass with
even shell cracker and his sun buddies too on the hide. Best action
on the North Port Canals we saw was a 8 foot gator startled off the
bank as we slipped by in our canoe, a few ducks and a bass, sunning
itself in six inches of water that was a state record in the making;
though he wanted nothing we had to offer and with a flip of the tail,
he was gone. Nice Pan fish and small buckets on minnows from Captain
Moss at his bait & tackle shop in North Port, from up the river
along with some nice sized channels reported.
”FISH ON!”
Events & More
The Biannual Family Fishing Tournament
By Gary A. Anderson
Papa’s Bait Shop on the Venice Fishing Pier hosted the “Family Fishing Tournament” on Saturday, April 10 2010 from 8 AM to 11 AM. Entry fees to fish were a donation of a non-perishable food item for the Trinity Presbyterian Food Bank. Donations or not, all children who had a wish to fish and have fun out on the boards of the pier at Sharky’s, also attended the event. Prizes awarded to all youth between the ages of five through seventeen. The prizes of first, second and third place awarded to each of the 3 age groups, 5 to 9, 10 to 12 and 13 through 17 and each child must be accompanied by an adult.
Continental breakfast supplied by Sharky’s on the Pier and registration at seven through the volunteers from the Trinity Presbyterian Food Bank, Carol Ann Mancuso, Barbara Jahnke and Damaris Weidner began the festivities. Prior to the rising of the sun, under a sliver of a moon, volunteers began the preparations in co-hosting this ongoing bi-annual event.
A participant named Joe caught the first two Hardheads (catfish) of the morning with both being a first.
A young man of five, James Morrissey with a grand Whiting followed this (Southern-Kingfish) along with a most unusual catch of the day. James said, “I want to catch a Bonnethead. I want one to be caught on my hook.” With this said a bait shrimp placed on his hook and cast from the pier, developed into a whopper of a tale. A few minutes passed and James exclaimed, “I got a bite! Maybe it is my Bonnethead” and with this he reeled in a monster, never seen before and caught on a hook at the on the boards of the pier. There before all was a Bonnethead shark without a body. He caught a head of a small shark, which had circum to a grizzly ending to which someone, or something had decapitated this young shark. A shark without a body but never the less, he caught a Bonnet Head.
The morning continued in warming as the bite picked up with more catfish, pinfish, stingrays and whiting. An onslaught of twenty participants each grinning with enthusiasm as each bite to catch occurred. The stiff east wind and brownish to green sand filtered waters stopped none of these kids in having a great time angling with their selected partner or parent. Volunteers were moving across the boards like ants at a picnic while recording all the fish caught and snapping photographs. All were encouraged to practice CPR, (Catch, Photograph and Release), to learn to respect the marine environments to which was fished.
As a picture is a thousand words, enjoy the smiles through my lens, as these kids are
