15 Year Old Girl Catches Potential Three World Record Wahoo

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[Happygal]

So a swordfish texture with an oily tuna/mackeral taste?

Sounds like a nice piece of sea-meat there! And probably healthy too.

[dalereed]

"was barely hanging together on monofilament leader that was chafed from the fish fight, from one end to the other and worn thin at the loop"

She's lucky to have even hooked it with mono leader, their teeth are like razor blades and they have the meanest looking mouth of any fish or animal.

On time on a trip to Cabo we were trolling for marlin south of Magdalena and got hit by Wahoo and all the rod tip did was bearly dip when he hit and cut off the 180# mono leader, we shifted to steel leader and had 4 wahoo within 10 minutes.

[LasVegasMac]

No kidding! Smoked Wahoo? What a fish!

I have an 11 year old boy and a 7 year old girl.

Hands down, my baby girl is up for anything.....

"Dad, can I go...?

"Dad, can I try that...?"

"Dad, would you let me try / do that...

The "that" is not important.....she is up for anything.

It's a rare occasion when Dad says "no".

Girls rock!

BTW, she has watched / helped enough, she could probably change oil in the truck, by herself.

I'm glad this girl went fishing with her Dad that morning!

Very cool.

LVM

[crz]

Man can you imagine the stories? It'll take them a hundred years to tell em all.

This is something these folks will hash over tons of times.

[Vinnie]

I had no idea they approached that size.
Supposedly the name comes from the fisherman yelling W A H O O !!

Extremely fast strong swimmers. Noted for swimming toward the boat at lightning speed when fighting..

I've had it raw, very good. Excellent steaked, smoked, broiled. Better than King Mackerel.

[makoman]

Wahoo is delicious! One of the best deep water fish! It is sweet white meat. That wahoo is huge! congrats!

[crz]

Shimano will be in contact with this gal. How much she'll get for endorsements is anyones guess. I hope she cashes in big time..then the rod and tackle companies etc.

[Tarpon]

They are a member of the mackerel family, but better tasting than a king fish. excellent sushi, steaked and grilled or smoked. We often run into them in south FL, but they are generally under 60 lbs. Put up a really strong fight.

[Zechariah11]

ROFL!!!

[Happygal]

Very nice endorsement for girl power, Mr. Mac! *L* Hope yer darlin' girl thrives and prospers *S*

[toomanygrasshoppers]

Holy Mackerel!!

[dalereed]

I had built 2 8' long freezers under the seats on the bridge and we sectioned them and froze them.

The only thing that we froze and flew home (we used to take the boat to Cabo for 8 months) was wahoo and dolphin fish. Except for posible records we released all the marlin. My wifes cousin did get the womans record 50# blue, 846#
on one trip to Cabo.

[knews_hound]

bttt

[caisson71]

That's a lot of sashimi.

[atomicpossum]

For Texas, that's just a bait fish.

[tubebender]

WoW. Big Fish. I have canned Albacore Tuna for years and the largest I have handled was about 50 pounds. Tuna caught off the North West Coast is cut and bled and flash frozen on the boat immediately to preserve the texture...

[tubebender]

FISH ON!!!

[dancusa]

Wow! Algore is starting to look like the Kingfish!

[apackof2]

Wow a 15 year old catches a fish I never heard of.....good for her

[LibKill]

Dang! Congrats, young lady.

That fish outweighs me by a lot.