Bermuda Report, April '09.

[Wound Up James]

After good winter fishing, things are looking REAL promising for another great May and June over here !! The Wahoo bite has been steady the past few weeks and the Yellowfin that all but vanished the last 6 weeks have showed once again.
The Wahoo for the most part have been FAT (9 of yesterday's fish weighed 353# gill gutted). Most fish are in the 30 - 60 lb range w/ a few smaller and a few larger ones mixed in. The largest aboard the 'Wound Up' recently was 78 lb, however Andrew Card caught a 90 lber last week and Cragin and Pete caught a 107lber the week before on Pete's commercial boat.




No shortage of interesting encounters last week....







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Some got a free ride home ....

A couple did not....









The winter/spring Wahoo here are fiesty, mean fish. One will scream hundreds of yards of line off w/ 22# of drag and tear it up all over the surface... the next nice one will act like a lizard ( sm 'hoo) until it gets close to the boat then the real attitude kicks in...to say there have been some wild ones on the leader and gaff would be a serious understatement !!! Last week we fished 4 days and caught 31 of 32 bites... and did we ever pay for it this week - 4 more days and were 36 for 58...









As we get into May and June the Wahoo, YFT fishing and the weather get much more consistent. Trolling, chumming (chunking ) and live baiting. The trips are down this year compared to the last few, so we're getting pretty creative with the packages and pricing. Airfare from most east coast cities is under $400 and we can find you some sweet accomadations for under $200... If anyone's interested fire me a PM or call me (441 737 9985) between 4:00 am and 8:30 pm Atlantic Standard time.

[Captain Fred Archer]

Great report and super pictures, James. Anybody wanting marlin, tuna, and mucho wahoo, including some big gators should know where to go by now!

I really liked seeing all of those downriggers being used down there. It is such an underrated 'hoo tool for many, but assuredly not for some of the sharpest of the sharp, especially during the middle of the day, or at least that's what I found.

Dang! Again, great report and thanks to you, I've got a bad case of the Striped FangBanger Shakes right now.

Hoo Baby!

PLEASE BEWARE OF COPYCATS

[Captain Rich Adler]

James- How come little James always has that big smile on his face??

[snowranger]

Pretty work James! Thanks for sharing. Still trying to get my ass over there. It will happen, just don't know when. How's the pad? Tell G I say hi.
Eric

[Wound Up James]

Thanks Fred.
We caught 13 the other day - only 2 downrigger bites and one bite on bait...Had 13 bites yesterday - 10 on bait , 9 of those on the downriggers.. One thing's for sure, I'd never leave the dock w/out them !!

[Captcrafton]

Great photos,looks like you guys are getting plenty of wahoo salad !

[Wound Up James]

Pretty work James! Thanks for sharing. Still trying to get my ass over there. It will happen, just don't know when. How's the pad? Tell G I say hi.
Eric

The pad's sweet thanks. The Wahoo fishing keeps getting in the way of a very long to do list. Gambrill got the spare room cleaned up today - it's got you and Danielle's name all over it.. She's say's hi and no more excuses...come visit !!!

[lilharcher]

Thanks James......got my Wound-up fix. Glad you are still wacken em. Love how the single guy that hooked the marlin had to jump onto your boat while he just set his boat a drift until the fight was over.....

[Wound Up James]

Thanks James......got my Wound-up fix. Glad you are still wacken em. Love how the single guy that hooked the marlin had to jump onto your boat while he just set his boat a drift until the fight was over.....

Hey Matt - both Andrew and I were fishing solo that day and the hoo's were playing hard to get, so I picked him up and tied off the flyer in hopes of some prime tuna/wahoo bait for the spring....we got her close, but the end result was not in our favour.....the first of the season for the fleet is still up for grabs...hopefully not for long.

[Capt. Michael Mata]

Nice report. Great pics, that's the most wahoo I've seen on a deck!!