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Caleb “Pirate Perch” Branscome and his sidekick Ryan bowed up on an awesome wahoo double header. I think it was actually a triple header at one point, but we’ll stick with the positive. Ryan’s wahoo tipped the scale at a hefty 89# and Caleb’s wasn’t far behind at 72#. The wahoos have been somewhat elusive so far this year, but we had their number this past weekend. And while our catch to bite ratio was not impressive, the ones we got in the boat were all goats. We ended up with 6 wahoos, all over 50#, and a blackfin just for good measure. Incredible wahoo action.
The first thing Kristin told me when she got on the boat Saturday morning was that she was going to catch the biggest fish of the trip. She was almost right. Her 76# wahoo, while a very impressive fish, was second to Ryan’s monster wahoo pictured above. After watching several good examples of what not to do with mutliple hook-ups on wahoo, Kristin jumped into the order at just the right time for one of our few single bites of the day. Pretty fish.
If you’re not going to catch many fish, you might as well catch records. That’s the approach we took last Wednesday during a slow day on the Lump. After a long day of hard fishing, all we had to show for our effort was five blackfin tunas. But one of the blackfins was certainly memorable: Robert’s monster blackfin weighed in at 36.1#, making it the second biggest blackfin tuna for the LOWA record books. Also noteworthy is that Robert’s monster blackfin is second only to the 38.6# blackfin caught aboard the KRAKEN five years ago by Dr. James Hawkins.
