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venture
08-23-2002, 07:44 PM
The Venture is scheduled to go up to Chatham or Glouster this fall for about a month. Timing is around Sept 15 and hopefully most of October... We're doin our annual Giant Bluefin run, but this year will be a bit more serious than in prior years. We're riggin the boat for huge fish and hopefully gonna hang a bunch of them...

We'll have a pro-crew this year. The crew is the probably the best in the north east. One of them took the Hyannis Giant tourny last year with a fish pushin 1000 pounds. Most of the fishing will be done by trolling swimmin horse ballyhoos, split bill style...The gear is 130s off the riggers and plainers run off the 80s, with the lines clipped to additional 130s..

The crew members are also accomplished fly fisherman and when and if the Giant season closes on certain days, we will be fishin flys off the Monomoys....

Hope your albie season is great...I'll have some limited computer access while there at a friends house in Chatham, and I'll keep ya posted as to our whereabouts and our successes / failures and heart breaks...

Howie

BIGE
08-26-2002, 09:05 AM
Howie, glad to hear everything is okay. I thought I saw the Venture on blocks Saturday and was worried your tuna season may have been in trouble. Good luck and keep us posted.

Rich

venture
08-28-2002, 07:32 AM
Rich,

Thanks for the concern. Yep, the Venture was pulled, and put on blocks for an insurance survey and to do some maintainance, readying her to go up north. Changing all thru hull hoses, changing some frozen sea-cocks, and changing the starboard stuffin box to a drippless system. These are all safety checks, making sure the crew is safe when up north.....
Should be back in the water within a few days or so..

With the NE winds blowin, I'm not missing anything..Actually I'm happy it's blowin NE because the Giants are solid off Prince Edward Island, and they need a good kick in the a$$ to push em a bit south....Hopefully, after this weather dyes down, they'll settle off the Massachusetts coast, either off Glouster or the Nantucket/Boston shipping lanes....Howie