Hey, I’m multilingual.
Went out this past Wednesday, November 11. Pretty smooth going out. Pretty snarly coming back, slow roll home. Pulled in lines earlier than planned when the wind and waves picked up.
Water temperature 75.9 at the ledge.
One good sized wahoo something probably in the 40’s, minus a tail, that we did not photograph. More concerned with outrunning whatever was responsible for the missing tail than getting a picture. Did not need to bleed that wahoo. Five blackfins, not large, but plenty big enough to fillet. Decent haul for a shortened day.
As in the photo, an old school cedar plug on mono was the magic lure for blackfin. A ways behind the boat. Wahoo on the downrigger.
Normally, I would blame the evil tax man for the mangled fish. In this case, we caught 5 or 6 barracuda on the same day including some pretty big ones. Notably, none of the barracuda was mangled. Maybe, the barracudas were responsible for the damage? Is it possible for a barracuda to bite the tail off a wahoo? Don’t know.
We were stopped by a game warden coming in. Very polite, no issues. (Please note, no snarky tone here, it really was a positive interaction.) Don’t know what he was out looking for but it wasn’t wahoo and blackfin. First time stopped in over a decade and never before outside of the cobia closed season in St. Helena.
So far, nigiri sushi, shime saba, ceviche, poke - two ways, and sashimi. Ike jime on the blackfins makes a big difference, worth the trouble. Wahoo may be the tastiest fish swimming in the ocean.
Glad to be back in SC for the winter and spring.