Went offshore with my two sons’ ages 15 & 12. We dropped lines around 100’ and worked our way out. Nothing but a couple of cut offs and a barracuda until we reach 120’. Then while fighting a cuda, two other rods go off. I take the rod with the Cuda and let my boys fight the fish. The 12 year has a tld 15 and keeps yelling “its spooling me”. We get his up to the boat with the oldest boy just keeps pressure on his. We see this beast of a fish beneath the boat and it spits the hook on the tld 15 rod. We see the fish but he does not swim off. At that point, we realize the 15 year old has this fish too! We are not sure if this fish actually took both baits or got fouled by the other rod somehow. We get it up to the boat and on a gaff and I can barely pull it in the boat. We get a few photos and get it into the fish box but the tail won’t fit in and we have to cut and “hinge” the tail to get it all in. The fish hit a daisy chain of little 4” squid with a blue and pink seawitch that the 12 year old made. We also ended up catching a small king and tried bottom fishing a little but nothing but sharks.
We took the fish over to Haddrell’s to get the fish weighed and those guys were great helping me get the fish back out of the box (which was no easy task) and up on the scales. The Wahoo weighed in at 76# even after cutting its tail and being in a fish box with marginal ice for such a fish.
Here are a few photos of a fish and good times that these kids will remember for a while:
Nice Fish guys!!! Glad to see you and your boys had a great day on the water, if they were not hooked on fishing I bet you they are now!!! Thanks for the pics!!! Good luck next time!!!
You are a good man for taking those boys and giving them a day they will remember after you’re gone.I don’t think God charges you for days that you take kids and elderly folks fishing.
Great job Triple Trouble. Looks like you been feeding those 2 boys pretty well. Those boys have many great experiences with their dad out on the water over the years. I can tell you from first hand experience that they will have fond memories of many trips some of them are just a little more memorable than others.
Awesome time for you guys and dang nice HOO!! Just finished a vacation full of catching YFT (not around here) and Hoo’s with my wife and 3 kids. I enjoy seeing them catch fish more than catching them myself. I’ve got a few more years of training before they can take me but I am surely planting the seeds.
