Wahoo bite thru stainless cable and eat swivels?

[canyongear]

I read this on another site and had the BS card pulled out, but then again im not a Wahoo god..what's your thoughts?

"After an outstanding bite one day last winter I took all of my 275# cable off my wahoo lures and replaced it with 480#. Its amazing what thier teeth will do. The 275 was clipped as clean as I have seen and I lost no less than4 lures that day. 2 were clipped thru the cable and more were lost when other fish started eating swivels while we were hooked up."

Rolls eyes..embelleshment me thinks.

[Bert Rodgers]

My guess is his cable was frayed and rusty.

Bert

[Anthony of the ARK]

ive seen a wahoo make an 1/2 once egg sinker look like a piece of chewing gum. im gonna have to agree that he probably had a tackle problem

[clt_capt]

I've had wahoo (I assume it was a wahoo) bite through #9 Piano wire and I've had kings and wahoo hit swivels...But haven't seen that with multistrand cable...

[FAT CAT MX]

Trust me - it's true! Although with 4 lures lost in one day, there may have been other issues. I once had one bit through 480# cable - and it was new wire. As to the them biting the swivels, it happens a lot. One wahoo gets hooked up and the lure slides up the leader to the swivel as the hooked fish runs, where a second wahoo bits it at the mono. I put a crimp about a foot up the wire on my wahoo lures to keep the lure from sliding all the way to the swivel.

[Deep C]

Bad cable perhaps... I've had makos work through even good cable. Also had bluefish in quantity work through light stuff. More often then not though what it is is the lure sliding back to the swivel and as that fish is racing with it in tow another nails it.
We saw quite a bit of that so far at Chub this year. Often we would just get our mono snipped at the bite but when we got in em thick we would occasionally 'luck" out and get one to stick. Thats when we would have the issue of them clipping the dragging lure and leaving us not only without fish and lure but also the snap itself...

[canyongear]

I just have a real hard time with a Hoo biting thru stainless steel 7x7 cable in one shot..275# ok perhaps..but 480#..?? in one clean shot..certainly we had em clip 200# - 300# mono leader..

i can see the the swivel dealie o'..with the lure sliding up..crimp a great idea for mono i guess..if your using a cable semi/stiff rig..

targeting wahoo why wouldn't you use the > stiff rig..cable 4'...lure..swivel..cigar lead..swivel..shock leader 600#?

i guess a wahoo's jaw and teeth are as sharp and strong as my Felco cable cutter..hard to fathom

[Captain Fred Archer]

Wahoo are hellacious choppers of everything leader, except single strand. One of the reasons why I switched from cable to single strand many, many years ago was some of them, especially the big gators, biting thru even heavy cable. And as C noted, makos will do the same thing.

Here is what I at least consider the most important part of literally decades of running single strand...I never had a wahoo chop his way thru it, nor a mako, and we caught a helluva lot of both, especially the wahoos, on a year-round basis with the vast majority of our baits and lures rigged on short, 3 foot wire when fishing for pelagics. We did lose a couple of makos when they did that popping way up there and flipping around thing and wound up kinking the short wire that we used for them too, but there were damned few of those.

There is no question that wahoos will nail baits connected to a lure and a wahoo if that lure or even just a swivel run behind the hooked fish. And of course, no matter how long your leader is, that junction is right where the running line connects to the top of the wire, so many times the bite gets the running line too and it's "snip!" and both fish are gone. The bigger the wahoos, the more likely this is. And the worst part is that those fish take off and if there is a school, they take off after them and you have probably blown a wide-open, load 'em up bite of the finest kind. And just as bad, it has been my experience that the first 'hoo to hit is usually the biggest one in the neighborhood. If the others are smaller units, he was probably there to feed on them (a big 'hoo can slice and dice a fifteen or twenty pounder dink like a kid biting a Twinky. Been there, seen that.) So you not only blow the rest of the school in this situation, you also have a horse cut off on you. No bueno, amigos!

My answer to this stuff. Even when they are wide, wide open, I HATE losing even a single wahoo, even if we are releasing them! With the short wire the lure runs alongside the running wahoo and it never gets touched.

From the book, Wahoo Troller's Bible

The numbers on that picture point out the flourescent line we like, the little squid teaser that we run in front of all high speed baits, and swage where it was held in place, and the (secret) lure itself.

[algdog]

I had one once almost cut thru 480lb cable there was one strand
left when the fish was in the boat. it was a double rigged hook
on a green machine, back hook was on the cable.

I also saw one caught on 60lb mono right in the corner of the mouth. very lucky.

[Sea Draggin]

Here is what I at least consider the most important part of literally decades of running single strand...I never had a wahoo chop his way thru it,

I have seen them clip #8 single strand like it was mono. Bippp. Right off.