Wahoo Big Game Fishing Holidays

Additional Information

The Wahoo is a favourite fish of many big game anglers. This sleek superfast predator gives the travelling angler an amazing fight once hooked. With its long muscular body and mouth full of razor sharp teeth this is one fish that big game anglers around the travel to such destinations as Madeira and Mexico just to try and do battle with one of these stunning specimens.

Name: Wahoo
Also known as: Hoo
Scientific Name: Acanthocybium solandri

Description

The Wahoo’s body is elongated and covered with small scales, the back is an iridescent blue while the sides are silvery with vertical blue bars.. The Wahoo’s mouth is large, and the teeth of the wahoo are razor sharp. They are some of the fastest fish in the sea.

Average Size

The Wahoo can reach sizes of over 130lb in weight but the average size that is caught are around 15lb in weight.

Where to catch

The Wahoo can be found in many of the worlds tropical oceans, destinations such as Mexico and especially the Baja peninsula, the coast of America and even waters around Madeira in Europe will give the travelling angler the chance to try and catch one of these amazing fish.

Fishing methods

The Wahoo is predominantly targeted by trolling lures behind a boat, this trolling is done at a faster speed than when you normally troll for big game fish. This is because with the Wahoos’s amazing speed the faster troll gets them really into hunting mode and they smash the lures extremely hard ensuring that those hooks set and the fish is on. Lures such as big diving Rapalas and even surface popper are the ideal lures to use.