Hunting the Wahoo

[JRS]

 

[Eddie Harren]

Can you lip them like a bass?

 

[JRS]

Can you lip them like a bass?

Perhaps with an iron fist Though their teeth are rather short, compared to a Barracuda, they are razor sharp, and they have extremely powerful jaws.

 

[Hopkins]

They are real sporty and fight like a blue marlin 10x their size except they are twice as fast and fantastic table fare.

 

[rebel]

I was surf fishing a few years back and this city boy ambled up and began to cast into the surf with a bass rod and a 1 ounce sinker. He held the rod with it's open faced reel upside down and seemed to be very concerned with keeping the $ 200 sunglasses clean that were parked on his face. I saw a small school of blues coming in ( we call them choppers here ) and I proceed to start bring them in. I looked over and saw Capt. Yupster struggling with a fish.

I dropped mine in the cooler, re - baited and cast back. Looked over again and noticed Ol' Spencer had landed the blue and was ready to lip it to show off to the family. It was one of those slow motion Nooooooooooooooo! moments.

Anyway, much screaming and blood. He actually fainted and EMT s were called over a gash to the thumb. I guess he had never seen his thumb bone Story ended good though as the fish just laid there with the rod. I got the fish and put it my cooler and returned the rod to the deck of their beachfront.

 

[Eddie Harren]

After returning to the slip one day we were throwing our catch of Dolphin (the fish not the mammal) on to the deck behind the boat. We had 2 Wahoo. One about 20" and a citation of 51". Some spectators on the dock were checking the fish out when one young man, in flip flops, tried to push the big Wahoo around sideways with his big toe. He never saw the teeth but we all saw the blood.

 

[Dgd6mm]

Been there, done that all my life, grew up in Palm Beach County. I moved to N.Florida in '08. I miss the ocean and the surf a little. If I wasn't out there fishing, I was on Lake Okeechobee catching either Bass or Speck's.

 

[jds holler]

I bagged some wahoo just last night, so I opened this thread and I find out you're talkin about fish -- jd

 

[johnfred1965]

So once you land them, what caliber do you use to shoot them?

 

[Intheshop]

38 sp?Maybe a stainless Ruger?

Beautiful pics,thanks for posting!BW

 

[JRS]

So once you land them, what caliber do you use to shoot them?

The 4" caliber is just about perfect Once that gaff is buried in it's head, the lights soon go out. Inexperienced anglers will stick that gaff into the middle of it's body due to the bigger target…. big mistake Makos notwithstanding, no other fish can beat a wahoo in the slice & dice department. Those teeth are essentially white razor blades. I can't imagine any edge much sharper in nature.

 

[johnfred1965]

38 sp?Maybe a stainless Ruger?

Beautiful pics,thanks for posting!BW

Ah, handgun hunting, I like that!

 

[JRS]

After returning to the slip one day we were throwing our catch of Dolphin (the fish not the mammal) on to the deck behind the boat. We had 2 Wahoo. One about 20" and a citation of 51". Some spectators on the dock were checking the fish out when one young man, in flip flops, tried to push the big Wahoo around sideways with his big toe. He never saw the teeth but we all saw the blood.

Like this, Eddie?

 

[Eddie Harren]

That is a nice one! We found a half of a wooden cable spool afloat in the grass beds off of Hateras one day and about 25' down, under the spool half, was a school of dolphin all about 18-22 inches long. We bailed them until we had over a dozen. Some very fine eating. I'd still rather have Wahoo steaks.