02/16/16 Fishing Report: Wahoo Bite Goes Off!

Photo Feb 16, 9 04 00 PMPhoto Feb 16, 9 02 47 AMThis morning we had an offshore fishing charter on the 42′ Hatteras with a 2 anglers from Buffalo, NY. After waiting for an intense pre-frontal storm to pass, we left the dock at 8:00 am and we had our lines in the water trolling in blue water by 8:15 am. Within 5 minutes of trolling we were hooked up to a triple header hookup of wahoo about 1 mile outside Boynton Beach Inlet. Each of the fish quickly took out about 100 yards of line, and unfortunately two of the fish came unhooked. We did keep one on the line, however, and within ten minutes our angler had a 21lb wahoo boatside and we gaffed him and put him in the box. We reset our lines and made a circle back to the same area and immediately hooked up to another wahoo on one of our weighted lines. The wahoo stayed hooked and within 5 minutes we had a 33 lb wahoo boatside, gaffed, and in the box. Photo Feb 16, 8 41 31 AMOnce again we turned to circle back to the same spot and hooked up again on the deep rod, this time landing a 15 lb wahoo. We turned back and went through the same area a few more times, but as wahoo often do, they stopped biting by 9am. Our anglers were very happy catching 3 wahoo out of 5 hooked, but their arms were already tired from cranking on heavy conventional tackle so they wanted to switch gears to a little light tackle bottom fishing. We moved into the reef about 1/2 mile from shore and made about 20 drops, catching a variety of bottom fish including hogfish, porgies, pork fish, red grouper, sand eels, parrot fish, and file fish. We headed back to the dock around noon after a successful morning half day charter. I expect good wahoo fishing to continue during the next week as the full moon approaches. If you would like to book a fishing charter with us, then give me a call!

Captain Chris Agardy

561-451-7646

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