Big Noosa Wahoooooooo...18-02-09

[Pistol_P]

Headed out today with Adrian in pretty sloppy conditions early that eased off later in the morning.
Trolled for a while and picked up some small mackeral but nothing of any size.
Plan B was to anchor up and berley hard with pillie pieces and fish floaters back in trail.
Started slow but I was lucky enough to get belted hard on a drift down.
Some screaming runs and initially we were thinking spaniard but as colour came we saw it was a ripper wahoo...

We put the fish at around 20kg.
Unfortunately some of the pics were a little blurry so here are the pick of the bunch.
http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o326/PeterMorris_Photo/SunshineReef18-02-09002.jpg

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o326/PeterMorris_Photo/SunshineReef18-02-09005.jpg

http://i340.photobucket.com/albums/o326/PeterMorris_Photo/SunshineReef18-02-09012.jpg

Cheers
Pete

[WestOzDesertFisher]

Great work Pete, nice hoo! What gear did you get him on? Did it come close to a PB?

[marty+jojo]

Nice Hoo there Pete, and some good pics mate. Well done. I bet it went crazy when ya set the hook. What gear were ya using?
Marty.

[Pistol_P]

TLD 20 with 20lb mono.

Yeah the initial hook up was funny....He slammed the bait and I set the hooks...
Then he just did nothing but a couple of head shakes and I gained a bit of line....
Then he woke up and did two scorching runs......they certainly have some speed.

Westoz....Yeah PB for me.

Pete

[stessco]

great fish! pete

[tailorboi99]

That's a big fish mate, well done. Great first shot too.

Tom

[Didley]

Nice one Pete, how bigs the boat and how far out do U go. Date is wrong by the way.

Dids

[Horse]

Thats a great Hoo Pete. I have not thought of burley for them

[Pistol_P]

Nice one Pete, how bigs the boat and how far out do U go. Date is wrong by the way.

Dids

Thanks Dids,
I was a day ahead of myself.

Adrian has a 6m 'Triumph'.... werent that far out on Sunshine.

Pete

[BLOOEY]

WOW. Thats an awesome fish pete. To cool8-) . Ben

[Fish_gutz]

Love ya work Pete, thats a top hoo! cheers Andrew

[skipalong]

top effort pete great hoo i must admit, havnt known them to take floaters before it would have been an awesome shock to see that as your colour to gaff

cheers justin

[JustOneMore]

Well done pete....great fish on a floater. Good to see all the big boys are turning up.

[ffejsmada]

Nice fish Pedro, bit unusual to get a 'hoo so close in I reckon.

Must be good water in close at the moment hey??

What's the temp??

Jeff.

[frankgrimes]

Yep - Cracker fish Pete!

Worthy of an avatar update I reckon!

Mick

[Pistol_P]

Nice fish Pedro, bit unusual to get a 'hoo so close in I reckon.

Must be good water in close at the moment hey??

What's the temp??

Jeff.

Some good water in close...We had two dollies shoot past as well but they took off without even a look...??....Even when we threw in pillie pieces they didnt come back to have a look.

Water was nearly 25

Pete

[reel scream]

Nice Pete. 20lb line.Niiiiiiiiiice and fun. Will be hoping the same for me in the morn.

Cheers Scott

[ON-THE-CHEW]

When I saw the heading I thought you must have got it off the rocks. Awesome wahoo, hopefully we will be heading out on the week end and give em a go. I think you need to add it to your signature picture...

Andrew

[breamnut]

your mad pete, u could have caught another one all u had to do was ask for our 3kg baby spanyard we got for livebait8-)
that avatar or your is gettin a bit full of all your fish, mabey you should give them a rest for a while:P

[Pistol_P]

Mate I reckon if I got that from the rocks half the NSW boys would be on the next flight up....;D ;D ;D

Nathan...those small spaniards are still gem eating.8-)

Pete

[lido76]

Nice fish pete. Whats Benny upto havent seen any reports from him for a while Married life got him I guess.. CHEERS BRENDAN.....

[carnster]

Congrats, send a few of them south to the goldy. One of those would be nice land based.

[jeffo]

Pete, did ya keep the frame by any chance? We have a bloke chasing wahoo frames for his PHD studies, so far this season they have been very slow for our club boats. Mitch put a thread up on ausfish a while back.

If you kept the frame let me know and ill either come get it and keep it here with another one i have or i can let him know its at your place.

Hopefully another wave of those little blacks come through soon.....the start of the season had people calling it the best in years, but at the moment its as bad as last year!

[nickstock]

Unreal mate! A dead set ripper of a fish. Speedy bastards arn't they Pete!

Cheers

Nick Stock

[Pistol_P]

Pete, did ya keep the frame by any chance? We have a bloke chasing wahoo frames for his PHD studies, so far this season they have been very slow for our club boats. Mitch put a thread up on ausfish a while back.

If you kept the frame let me know and ill either come get it and keep it here with another one i have or i can let him know its at your place.

Hopefully another wave of those little blacks come through soon.....the start of the season had people calling it the best in years, but at the moment its as bad as last year!

Sorry Jeff,
I didnt keep the frame....Marlin gone quiet hey..??
I heard from mates down south its very quiet down there to.....They have got a few small ones at SWR but water has gone cold and all up their season has been ordinary.

Pete

[Red Bull]

Hi Pete, great work on the 'hoo mate. That is one cool fish I reckon.

Do you ever throw stickbaits at these beasts, or are there not really visible bait schools to target?

Anyway, top stuff mate!
RB

[seapup]

Nice work Pedro!

[tfish]

congrats on a great wahoo..well done on the pb. cheers trav

[Frank OO]

Well done Pete,

With my eyes the blurry pictures look pretty good.

Good to see some of the big boys starting to come out.

Frank OO

[sempre]

What did it actually weigh on the scales?