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Wahoo bite continues throughout the Bahamas.

Wahoo bite continues to remain strong all over the Bahamas. We continue to see improved catches with each passing cold front. Water temperatures are now hovering around 75 degrees, the coldest we have seen in the past several years. Wahoo remain aggressively feeding in these temperatures and expect a possible drop to maybe even 73 degrees this year. What does all this add up too… perfect ingredients for the best Wahoo bite in quite some time.

We have received reports from Cat Island this week as they had a one day friendly tournament there this week. Excellent fishing prevailed as the largest Wahoo was boated by Randy Holder the manager of Hawks Nest at 71lbs. Many fish were caught during the one day event with the majority in the 50 and 60lb range. The normal spots at Cat remained hot as Randy boated his fish in the pocket off of Columbus Point. Other spots in Cat that produced just as well were Devils Point and Tarter Bank. Fishing remains off the hook!

We got out Friday scouting some deep drop spots off Guana Cay and were rewarded quickly with a nice catch of yellow eyes and button snapper. We tried two spots today, one being on the north end, and the other the south. We wanted to explore these two areas so that no matter which cut we use, Man O’ War or Whale Cut, that we could quickly get into the action. So if for any reason the trolling bite was not to develop, snapper would be on the menu. We only did this for a short time today boating plenty of snappers to about 4 lbs. We ended on a high note with a triple header yellow eye snapper.

After finishing up our deep dropping, we decided to put the lines in for Wahoo. Shortly there-after, we were rewarded with our first quad Wahoo bite of the season, boating 3 of 4, to 30 lbs. Once again the deep rod was the ticket as we boated all three deep rod bites, and pulling off our fourth fish on a billy bait ballyhoo combo. Currently the deep rod is hot, so we have put a third one out, fishing that from the bridge. In order to fish this rod MAKE sure it is well past your long riggers in order to avoid a tangled mess! Also keep the boat in gear after your first bite, as a second, third or even fourth is almost a sure thing. All the deep rods are being run with 54oz. of lead followed by YoZuri plugs. Blue-black and orange-black as well as all-black have been the ticket. We have only been fishing around 8 knots and seem to be getting plenty of bites at this speed. We really like this speed, as we continue to boat dolphin as well as black fin tuna. We might get a few more Wahoo bites if we bumped the speed up, but we’d be sacrificing variety for sure.

On the bottom fishing front we did some grouper fishing off of Scotland Cay. Although we could only find Nassau Grouper (currently out of season), it was a blast with our biggest going 12 lbs. Yellowtail fishing and mutton fishing remains a no brainer. Go out to around 60 feet of water, drop the chum bag, drop a bait, and start reeling!

All in all, hot Bahamas fishing continues. From Wahoo, to deep dropping, to snapper, it all remains off the hook. Get over here fast as we are seeing one of the best Wahoo season any of us have seen in a long time!

-Tight Lines, Capt. Joe – Over Under Adventures

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Here are some pictures to go along with the report. Sorry for the delay but the internet on the island has been a little temperamental. Went bait fishing yesterday but it was too nice no wind or current. Giving in to our frustration we decided time would be better spent doing odds and ends around Low Profile. Weather being perfect it may be a good day to dive some of the great coral heads off of Guana.