Wahoo on Fly

We went to Wreck in August 2006 and found what we believed to be a spawning aggregation of wahoo. This trip in 2007 proved the aggregation to be an annual event, with huge numbers of big wahoo on the chew. We were chasing them on fly this year - you just get sick of releasing them on conventional gear, there are that many! We hooked 35 on fly in one day, and our biggest for the trip on conventional gear was over 50kgs. Oh, there were also plenty of black marlin, sailfish, yellowfiun tuna and some BIG GTs on the chew as well. Sounds like just another day in the Coral Sea really!!!! The smallest fish are 60lbs and the biggest are well over 100lbs - massive wahoo! All that is really left to say is that this trip proved that Wreck Reef has to be one of the most prolific bluewater flyfishing locations on the planet. We released somewhere around 60 wahoo on fly, from somewhere around 250-300 hookups on the flyrod, from thousands of fish seen. There's just something truly addictive about flyfishing for the fastest fish in the sea. Seeing those fly reels spin as fast as any fish can make them go is just spectacular. We were fishing GFAA 30lb tippets, so we could release the fish quickly, but for anyone interested in a world record wahoo on fly, this is the place. Go to http://www.nomadsportfishing.com.au/nsa_trip_reports_2007/nsa_tripreports_wre... for the full report

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[VanIsleOutdoors]

@muckdiver ...followed by a wahoo. watch the rest of the video.

[muckdiver]

its a marlin