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    What is your WAHOO spread?

    When the wahoo bite is on, run us through what you put in the water and where. Do you use a teaser? Do you run meat or straight artificial? This should be fun. Add pics if possible..

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    when targeting wahoo, every thing rigged on #8 or #9 bright piano wire....make leader lengths as long as you feel comfortable dealing with at the back of the boat....the longer the better. witches all around....blue/crystal, purple/black, black/red, black or orange, purple/char, pink etc on the flats, shorts, and longs. then something like an ilander or sailure of the above mentioned colors on the bridge pole. if you have a planer rod at your disposal, it needs to be down as well, with an ilander or upright troller/matanza type lure. i think wahoos really like a bait with a bulky, dark silhouette down deep. also, all of the above are fished with meduim ballyhoo.

    as for teasers, ive seen wahoo come up and destroy just about anything. squidnation chains, blue/white ilander chains, flying fish chains, you name it.


    as for artificials...braid maurauders, pink drone spoons, cedar plugs have all killed their fair share of wahoos. its just a personal choice as to whether you pull them in your spread. i also would like to do the hi-speed thing one day with some WahooKing type stuff....it looks like a blast.

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    hooter spread

    High speed spread!!!
    -4 rods
    -2 wire line bent butts
    -1 w/32oz trolling weight & orange/black islander 75yds back
    -1 w/16oz trolling weight & orange/black or orange/yellow yozuri bonito
    100yds back
    -2 50's on 6' straight butts with 80lb mono over top of bent butts
    -1 6-8 oz "lead head" dart type plug purple/black 125yds back
    -1 plastic head dart type plug green/yellow or blue/white 150 yds back

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    For big fish cosistantly, you need to use wire-line. Seems like they are attracted to it. If you cant pull that off, any braid line will work. Braid Marawder, and a 32 oz lead (be sure to put wire on either side) with a 10 ft. leader and 3 eight inch lure skirts, with 2 oz leads seperating them with a Islander on top of them. One in each of the corners and then 4 50's I like a Islander with a strip for one long rigger and a Islander look a like that I tie myself. 3 oz bullet head tied like a sea witch.for the other. A strip on that also.
    For my short riggers, I pull small marlin lures. Hard heads work better cause they are heavier. I use 49 strand cable for all my leaders. Single strand wire kinks and breaks too easily. with the cable you have no worrys. 200 lb. is plenty.
    Watch it work!

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    I seldom wahoo fish but if I do...
    Flats get planers... one with a split tailed mullet, other with a red/black mamba over hoo...

    Inside riggers- 16-32 ounces of lead and yozuri bonita plugs. Orange/ Black and purple...

    Outside riggers- Black red Blaster over horse hoo and black blue ilander over horse

    Center- Woire line with Black read 12/0 feather over horse way way way back...
    Inside center yozuri bonita... Purple usually...

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    For wahoo i love dark skirts..some of my favorites are Haloween,Purple/Black,Red/Black, all black..all purple. Just an assortment of dark colors. All on#8-#9 wire. I prefer piano wire.

    The braid maurauders are awesome. I own over 30 of them if that tells you much. half are near about destroyed by wahoos.

    I run Med. Ballys behind the jr. islanders..meds on witches..the braid maurauder back in the prop wash and noramlly a horse bally on the longs skirted.

    The upright trollers are badass on the planers with med hoo.

    And always pull Old Saltys...

    Con22

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    Quote Originally Posted by Con22 View Post
    The braid maurauders are awesome. I own over 30 of them if that tells you much. half are near about destroyed by wahoos.



    Con22

    hmmm i wonder who gave you all those

    I now regret it

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    ONE SNIPER ROD DOWN...MATANZA PURPLE CLASS SKIRT...MED BALLYHOO....START IT AT APPX 20-30 FT DOWN AND LET IT "CREEP " TO APPX 90 FT...THEN RESET IT IF NECESSARY

    #8 PIANO WIRE ...SEA WITCHES...MED BALLYHOO....5.5-6.5 KNOTS....8/0 - 9/0 (SOMETIMES) 7192 MUSTAD SO' TUNA HOOKS

    I USE THIS HOOK BEACUAES I AM ALSO EXPECTING OTHER SPECIES AS WELL ...LIKE TUNA

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    My high speed spread goes a little somethin like this...

    SC = set at 100' and 150'....wire line bent butt outfits...3 lb trolling sinkers...15' cable shock leader...4' cable lure leader...WahooKing gold head-crystal/blk hair...WK silver head-pur/blk hair.

    Longs = set at 200' and 250'....mono bent butt outfits (80's)...2 lb trolling sinker...15' cable shock leader...4' cable lure leader...WK gold head-grn/blk hair....WK silver head-blu/wht hair.

    Shotgun = set at 350'....mono bent butt outfit (80's)...2 lb trolling sinker...15' cable shock leader...4' cable lure leader...WK black head-red/blk hair

    Last edited by WahooKing; 05-18-2007 at 10:21 PM.

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    I like to run Mega bait Seaboz in red/black and purple/black on the flats and 16-32oz bullet type lures in blue/pink and white/pink on the riggers. I catch lots of wahoo this way. I troll about 8-12 knots





    Last edited by SERprise; 05-02-2008 at 01:38 PM.

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