MHC 9/12-Fall Wahoo

[Going Deep]

With fall in the air and the forecast of light and slight for Saturday we iced up the fish boxes and the drink coolers and shoved off from the marina Friday night around ten in anticipation of some wahoo killing. Made a short run ten or so miles off the beach and anchored up for the night. After several adult bevarges and plenty of lies we called it a night and took up residence in the bean bags. Awoke to a beautiful sunrise and continued the run to the fishing grounds. Had all lines in by 7:15 and in no time found a pretty piece of water with plenty of bait on the recorder. Made a lap or two when the planer rod bounces and the first fish of the day comes over the gunnel.


Made another lap and the flat line gets hammered, Mark jumps on the rod and while clearing the other lines the left
goes off as well




Continue to work the pretty piece of water and had our six wahoo limit by 9:30...fall fishing at it's best!

With our wahoos out of the way we went looking a sailfish and pushed off a little deeper when the wwb takes off with the best fish of the still early morning. This fish was tough and did not want to come up and after twenty minutes of him staying deep we finally saw we had a species that has been nonexistant this year for our boat.




Made a few more laps in the area looking for another fish or two with no love. From the radio it sounded like the bite had shut down, we talked it over and agreed we had plenty of meat so we reeled them and in and made the run to the hill.



Hard to beat back cleaning fish and the boat by 1 pm...Great day on the water guys

[SeaBiscuit]

Outstanding catch and fine report. Your fat yellowfin may well be the nicest one I have seen in SE NC this year, congratulations!
SeaBiscuit

[clt_capt]

Great day on the hoos, but tuna is a great kicker - YFTs have been few and far between recently

[merry marlin]

Outstanding fishing guys!
Good for you on spending the night on the water... Adult beverages and good stories before hugging the Bean Bag, you'll remember this trip!
My boy sure wanted to go deep on saturday as we heard of wahoo bites... Fall is here and thanks for sharing the good times.
MM

[Flooringman]

Great catch. That is a good looking yft.

[BTH284]

Nice work on your fishing Mike!

[JRJBfishing]

WHERE WERE YOU FISHING??!LOL

Good report and great pics!

We'll be out there tomorrow trying to round up the leftovers!

[Sea Draggin]

Outstanding catch and fine report. Your fat yellowfin may well be the nicest one I have seen in SE NC this year, congratulations!
SeaBiscuit

I agree. The only other ones that I know of were the ones my cousin got in June and one reported caught on a light line.


Must be the result of all this NE.

[freebird2]

We got hit hard by them also but it seems you held on to them better than us. We made several circles & never had another sniff from them again.

[WAHOONBOX]

DOGGONE GREAT JOB DUDE! NICE UNS!