Wahooooo!!

[BassinLou]

Caught this awesome 51" wahoo yesterday afternoon. I had fun fishing weekend. Bass fishing in the glades on Saturday, offshore fishing on Sunday. South Fl is awesome. 

 

Enjoy the pic. What makes this catch even more special to me, is that this was my 7 yr old son's first offshore outing. 

 

 

 

[Siebert Outdoors]

Awesome.  Congrats.

[john81]

Nice catch,thats some good eating fish

[BassinLou]

Nice catch,thats some good eating fish

 

Thanks, funny you should mention how good it tastes. I have never made wahoo before and I have several beautiful steaks and I don't want to screw it up. 

[john81]

Thanks, funny you should mention how good it tastes. I have never made wahoo before and I have several beautiful steaks and I don't want to screw it up. 

when in doubt go simple, I like my wahoo with lemon,butter,salt and pepper with a little cilantro. I love the texture of wahoo, its a nice white fish but it has imo a little bit more dense than most white flaky fish.

[OkeechobeeAngler]

Awesome catch and memories.

[pbrussell]

Wahoo is one of my favorite fish to eat. Delicious

[00 mod]

Awesome!  I love wahoo as well!  Great eats!
 

Jeff

[BassinLou]

I have to agree with what you guys have mentioned on how good wahoo tastes. I made some wahoo steaks about an hour ago, and they were gooood. 

[Helluva_Engineer]

Jealous

[Darren.]

Fantastic! And jealous, too

[Bluebasser86]

Never caught one but I can only imagine how fast they must be able to burn off some line. I bet your son will remember that fish for the rest of his life!

[john81]

What way did you decide to cook it, also what did you put on it?

[SirSnookalot]

Nice fish, excellent fighting fish, about the only thing faster are billfish.

[Dwight Hottle]

Sweet catch Lou.

[john81]

Nice fish, excellent fighting fish, about the only thing faster are billfish.

billfish are slower just an fyi, wahoo and mako's are the fastest fish in the ocean. Then i would say tuna and mackeral are next.

[BassinLou]

Thank you for the compliments guys. That fish was indeed special. We were fishing a 3 line spread and my setup was the center reel with the bait right outside the white wash. We were trolling at about 9-10 knots for about 2 hours when we were discussing where to bottom fish for a while because the trolling was slow. No sooner then we finished that sentence, my center rig began peeling out line. The consistent Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz........ was music to my ears. That fish ran for a while. I brought it to the boat 4 times and all 4 times resulted into repeated runs.  By the 5 approach the fish was exhausted. After that, it was gaffed and brought on board. High 5 fives all around. 

 

As far as how I made it. I went the grilling route with an Asian recipe. It was titled Grilled Ono (wahoo) with soy, ginger, garlic. It was delicious. The steaks were about a pound or so each. My wife actually took the leftovers for lunch today. 

 

I know it's lunch time somewhere.... sorry. All of you saw the before pic here is the after.....

 

 

 

Thanks again. 

[john81]

 

Thank you for the compliments guys. That fish was indeed special. We were fishing a 3 line spread and my setup was the center reel with the bait right outside the white wash. We were trolling at about 9-10 knots for about 2 hours when we were discussing where to bottom fish for a while because the trolling was slow. No sooner then we finished that sentence, my center rig began peeling out line. The consistent Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz........ was music to my ears. That fish ran for a while. I brought it to the boat 4 times and all 4 times resulted into repeated runs.  By the 5 approach the fish was exhausted. After that, it was gaffed and brought on board. High 5 fives all around. 

 

As far as how I made it. I went the grilling route with an Asian recipe. It was titled Grilled Ono (wahoo) with soy, ginger, garlic. It was delicious. The steaks were about a pound or so each. My wife actually took the leftovers for lunch today. 

 

I know it's lunch time somewhere.... sorry. All of you saw the before pic here is the after.....

 

 

 

 

Thanks again. 

 

Looks good

I always have a wahoo rig out when searching for spots on the bottom. They have been caught trolling at 20knots before which is insane. Ive also been spooled at high speed trolling if you dont pay attention or forget you have a line in the water lol. The ace lures are my favorite for that kind of trolling with 480lb wire as a leader.

[SirSnookalot]

billfish are slower just an fyi, wahoo and mako's are the fastest fish in the ocean. Then i would say tuna and mackeral are next.

Sailfish comes in as the fastest fish on just about every site, marlin takes the 2 nd spot and wahoo the 3 rd.  

http://thetoptenz.net/fastest-fish-in-world/

http://www.top10stop.com/world/fastest-fish-in-oceans-and-seas-top-10-fastest-swimmers

One thing we have plenty of down here is salifish and it't that time for the year for them.

[john81]

Sailfish comes in as the fastest fish on just about every site, marlin takes the 2 nd spot and wahoo the 3 rd.  

http://thetoptenz.net/fastest-fish-in-world/

http://www.top10stop.com/world/fastest-fish-in-oceans-and-seas-top-10-fastest-swimmers

One thing we have plenty of down here is salifish and it't that time for the year for them.

odd since ive never caught a billfish over 9knots but have caught tuna,wahoo and some other fish 10+ knots

[SirSnookalot]

odd since ive never caught a billfish over 9knots but have caught tuna,wahoo and some other fish 10+ knots

That's trolling speed, not the speed the fish can swim.  

[gr8outdoorz]

Nice catch Lou!! Congrats!

[Tuckahoe Joe]

Nice fish!  Never caught one and actually never even seen one til this pic but my wife's nephew catches them a lot and I'll say it again, that's good eatin'!