samsy
09-02-2007, 06:16 AM
Caught my first wahoo yesterday and it just happened to be a 20.4 kilo monster. Talk about beginners luck.
We started our day with a gentleman's start at 7am. Had a sticky beak around for some mackerel at first but the conditions weren't right. Packed up the gear and headed for the 32's.
We were targeting marlin and had a good spread of lures out for no than 10 mins before the first strike on a pink squid. The line of the TLD 20 was stripped off at an amazing rate. By the end of the first run i only had a 1/4 of the spool left. Finally retrieved the line and had the fish close to the boat for it to throw the hook. After all of that we didn't even get to see what it was. :-/
On the second strike Adam hooked up to a nice 10 kilo wahoo. It was my turn for the next strike. The big fluro green plastic close to the boat was smashed. Set the hook and the battle was on. The fish was swimming in every direction and causing a mess with the lines. After a 20 minute fight, two detangled lines, and another line wrapped around the prop a big wahoo surfaced. I couldn't believe it. It was huge. It was my first wahoo and just happened to be a trophy fish as well. Cant get any better than that. We trolled around for a few more hours. Hooked a few striped and yellow fin tuna but didn't catch our targeted species - marlin. I hope i am just as lucky when i catch my first marlin . ;D
I have to say wahoo are alot of fun to catch and great eating.
We started our day with a gentleman's start at 7am. Had a sticky beak around for some mackerel at first but the conditions weren't right. Packed up the gear and headed for the 32's.
We were targeting marlin and had a good spread of lures out for no than 10 mins before the first strike on a pink squid. The line of the TLD 20 was stripped off at an amazing rate. By the end of the first run i only had a 1/4 of the spool left. Finally retrieved the line and had the fish close to the boat for it to throw the hook. After all of that we didn't even get to see what it was. :-/
On the second strike Adam hooked up to a nice 10 kilo wahoo. It was my turn for the next strike. The big fluro green plastic close to the boat was smashed. Set the hook and the battle was on. The fish was swimming in every direction and causing a mess with the lines. After a 20 minute fight, two detangled lines, and another line wrapped around the prop a big wahoo surfaced. I couldn't believe it. It was huge. It was my first wahoo and just happened to be a trophy fish as well. Cant get any better than that. We trolled around for a few more hours. Hooked a few striped and yellow fin tuna but didn't catch our targeted species - marlin. I hope i am just as lucky when i catch my first marlin . ;D
I have to say wahoo are alot of fun to catch and great eating.