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