wahoo

pl99 · #1 03-13-2010, 05:24 PM

web page [image]http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac326/eddiecraft/001.jpg?t=1268511726[/image] Sorry still having hard time posting pics.. Followed directions and well ya know.. Caught at night drifting sardines..... 76 lbs on 20 lb line with four foot of wire no swivel in ninety feet off boynton...

McGillicuddy · #2 03-13-2010, 05:57 PM

Get rid of the ? and numbers after.jpg... here you go

pl99 · #3 03-13-2010, 06:01 PM

Thanks for the help.. Have a good weekend MCgillicudy.

copout · #4 03-13-2010, 08:43 PM

Nice hoo Chris! Sashimi!

Fr. Frank · #5 03-13-2010, 10:57 PM

Sweet!

gofastsandman · #6 03-16-2010, 07:23 PM

Great catch on 20! Restaurant quality all the way.

Cheers,
GFS

DonV · #7 03-16-2010, 09:44 PM

Sandy, looks to be even better than restuarant grade.....I would say "Chef Sandy" quality!!! Wahoo = yum!!!

pl99 · #8 03-17-2010, 07:09 PM

Thanks Sandy and Everyone..

I was out Yukking it up with some friends on a buddys boat and we decided to just set up a few drifts.. I really did not feel like fishing so I just twisted some wire to a rod with a full spool of twenty on a Tld 30 .. We drifted for about twenty minutes and Someone brought in a king and Then the rod I was using Sceamed drag was really loose and birdsnested then cleaned itself up then birdsnested again then cleaned itself up.. I thought it was a fowl hooked KIng.. I never in a million years would have thought a wahoo. So I just fought it really loose and then when it came to the side of the boat it was like a chinesse fire drilll on acid. It took an eternity it seemed like...

We hooked it on a scale that only went to 75 lbs and It bottomed it way out.. So I really do not know how much it really weighed But I do know over 75.... It took forever to get it to the boat and a buddy of mine almost cut the line after what it seemed like an eternity... He said its a foul hooked king.. I never took time like that to fight a fish before.. I just wanted to see what it was.. I thought it was a shark to be honest with everyone...

I know the odds of catching this fish on 20llb line and how it was rigged.. Very Slim.. It was a catch of a lifetime for me...... The pics do not do the fish any justice, Im 5'11 and the fish was bent at the head in the pic..

Have a good week everyone
Chris

copout · #9 03-17-2010, 09:59 PM

Man get your scale & eye's checked that weehoo is no more than 25lbs. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
I'm only kidding, where's my filet's?

Should be out on the 50 line Sat night...we'll see.

Rainmaker · #10 03-18-2010, 06:13 PM

Congrats on a nice fish.... I have not seen many Wahoo in the past few months. Of course that is not one I target very often anyway. I stumble acrossed them on occasion though. It looks like that is what happened to you. Nice to see and great job on the light tackle.