prime feeding time for wahoo so you have to be there at
the right time. Another thing to remember is that fishing
pressure will affect the bite. If you have 5 or 6 boats trolling
the same area that you know are holding wahoo you may
not get a strike. Best bet is to come back later after all the
other boats have left and try again. If you are getting strikes
and catching fish on artificial bait, and for no reason at all
the bite stops quickly, or it has gotten crowded around the
area holding fish, this is when you want to break out the live
bait. This should add a few more fish to the box before
leaving a certain area. Artificial will usually put more numbers of fish in the box but live-bait will produce fish when
the bite isn't very strong or there is too much pressure.
How to keep a Wahoo
hooked up
This is probably the hardest part of the Wahoo fishing
experience. Strikes are usually easy to get, finding them
can be tough at times but not usually, during the right time
of the year. Keeping them on the hook after the initial strike
is the most critical part of wahoo fishing and can be downright frustrating at times. Anyone with any experience
knows that you have about a 50 percent chance of actually
getting that fish in the boat. The absolute most important
thing to do once you get a strike is to stay at trolling speed
and do not take the rod out of the rod holder. You want to
be sure the fish is hooked and to give him a chance to
come back after the bait if he misses it the first couple of
times. I will usually let them run down to a certain depth on
the spool or until they slow down some from the initial
strike before I come off the gas.
The angler should then put the rod in his hands as your
pulling off the throttles to take up any slack in the line, although you shouldn't get any, and to make sure the rod
stays bent. After the boat has slowed down enough to take
in some line, you want to slowly work the fish to the boat
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