I’ve never caught a wahoo shallower than 150’. The magic number for me is about 175-225 feet. Never heard of one being caught in 100’ but anything can happen.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
I’ve been on a boat that’s caught 2 wahoo and a king mackeral and all were caught by trolling.
Keep the spread in the water running around 6-7 miles an hour. When the fish hits one of your baits, clear the lines on the side of the boat of that rod, then as you are fighting the fish, keep your speed (you probably could slow down 1-2 miles an hour) but start making slow circles on the side of the caught fish. Just don’t give the fish any slack or else he’ll throw the hook.
Troll and get the top water fish like the wahoo, mackeral, dolphin, tunys… Then after that set up to bottom bump. BSB on the bottom, B-liners a few cranks off the bottom.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad
Equipment:
190cc Sea Pro w/130 Johnson
1- 19 year old (boy of leisure)
1 - 1 year old (fishing maniac)
1 - wife (The Warden)
ECFC
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Originally posted by sellsfishsounds like “Walterboro Wahoo” for sure
That’s not funny… Even I won’t eat a cuda, they smell and have bad teeth.
Thanks. Really helpful. That’s pretty much the plan we stuck with this past weekend. Couple hits trolling. The highlight of the day was a tiger shark though. Lots of fun.
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Originally posted by claimI’ve been on a boat that’s caught 2 wahoo and a king mackeral and all were caught by trolling.
Keep the spread in the water running around 6-7 miles an hour. When the fish hits one of your baits, clear the lines on the side of the boat of that rod, then as you are fighting the fish, keep your speed (you probably could slow down 1-2 miles an hour) but start making slow circles on the side of the caught fish. Just don’t give the fish any slack or else he’ll throw the hook.
Troll and get the top water fish like the wahoo, mackeral, dolphin, tunys… Then after that set up to bottom bump. BSB on the bottom, B-liners a few cranks off the bottom.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dadEquipment:
190cc Sea Pro w/130 Johnson
1- 19 year old (boy of leisure)
1 - 1 year old (fishing maniac)
1 - wife (The Warden)ECFC
The Carbon Fiber King @ illstreet Composites
Went out (2) Saturdays ago, dropped lines in 85’ of water on the way to Edisto banks, 30 mins later had 2 wahoo’s and 3 kings in the boat… This happened last summer as well…but normally you are spot on with the depths…
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Originally posted by Cracker LarryI’ve never caught a wahoo shallower than 150’. The magic number for me is about 175-225 feet. Never heard of one being caught in 100’ but anything can happen.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
191 Bay Scout
Shallowest I have seen one is on a safety stop in 105’ in Charleston. Not saying that they don’t come in shallow, but as well all know, statistically speaking if someone is in 100’ and can’t tell the difference between a wahoo and a cobia, chances are it was a cuda!
Big difference in that and a cuda! 85’ of water on this one and 65lb’r late last summer somewhere between 85 and 95’ of water…
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Originally posted by skinneejShallowest I have seen one is on a safety stop in 105’ in Charleston. Not saying that they don’t come in shallow, but as well all know, statistically speaking if someone is in 100’ and can’t tell the difference between a wahoo and a cobia, chances are it was a cuda!
191 Bay Scout
walterboro wahoo 
this is too funny. Wahoo in these temps …never seen or heard of it. Unless fishing hatteras and the streams curving back and in…so to speak. “hunny did you cook these wahoo steaks right”
J. Simmons
22 EdgeWater “Badfish”
We caught a 90 lb hoo in 70’ of pea green water a few years. We were slow trolling while trying to fix a problem.
We caught a 90 lb hoo in 70’ of pea green water a few years. We were slow trolling while trying to fix a problem.