This is the video my buddy Colin sent me a few years ago to convince me to come visit and enjoy all that Wahoo fishing has to offer. This is a commercial fishing trip they had that as you can see… went incredible.
I love wahoo and have been traveling so much I haven’t had a chance to shoot one since November/December but hope you all are out getting some.
As my buddy Monkey says, “Everyone has a Wahoo story….” What is your best wahoo story?
The one I used to always tell as a kid and even now is of another charter mate on a boat I worked on in Puerto Rico named Pepe. Pepe had gaffed a nice hoo and left it laying on the deck as he put the lines back out and not paying attention to the fish it slid across the deck and into his bare feet. The mouth of the Wahoo ran across his toes cutting the tendons on the top of them and slicing them to the bone. He wrapped it up but didn’t do anything about it for a few days and by the time he got to the hospital his toes were facing straight down as he had nothing to hold them up.
When the doctors started working on him the tendons were retracted back into his toes and foot so they had to pull them tight and re attach them. Now Pepe’s toes point up at a 45 degree angle.
Moral of the story?
A dead wahoo is as much or more dangerous as a live one so always be wary of the teeth on toothy critters.
Oh, and don’t make fun of Pepe’s toes. He wears flip flops by choice not because shoes don’t fit him.
For more video of our spearfishing trip down there which Brad Thornbrough filmed check out:
http://www.spearblog.com/2011/01/04/01_riffe-wahoo-spearfishing-with-cameron-kirkconnell/
2 Responses to “40 Wahoo in a day Video”
Poor Pepe! Sounds like a familiar story. On one trip a few years back I sent a back up Captain to run the charter. They got into a a hot wahoo rally and a guest decided he wanted to gaff a nice size wahoo (40 lbs). Upon gaffing the fish, he was not able to flip it into the cooler and it bounced out onto the deck. My first mate was running the cockpit and facing the stern. The wahoo slid the length on the boat with it’s mouth open and stopped abruptly on my first mate’s achilles tendon, completely severing it! Not pretty, especially in a remote area of Nicaragua with no hospitals for miles (three hour 4X4 ride). Luckily we were able to put my boy back in one piece, but it was a chilling lesson to the dangers of these toothy rockets!!!
where is this video taken… what a fishery!!!!