![]() Seventy to 80 percent of my bites come on the short planer. They’re not swimming up to look at it they’re swimming up to crush it. “The shy wahoo that’s going to swim up to the bait three or four times before eating it on the long planer, and the big wahoo that’s not afraid to hit the short planer. He also fishes big swimming mullet on two shorter planer lines, each about 20 feet behind the boat. If he wants the bait deeper, he lets out more line. Pat Fordįay usually fishes a split-tail mullet from a planer 100 feet behind the boat. Lures, bonito strips, rigged mullet, and live baits fished at the surface and below from planers and downriggers can all tempt these roving summertime wahoo-in Florida and North Carolina. His tournament two years ago around the full moon in August produced eight wahoo, including a 71.9-pounder and two others over 50 pounds. “I’ve caught them all the way out from a week before the full moon to a week or a week and a half after,” says Joe Hector ( extremekayakfishing.com), who puts on kayak-fishing tournaments out of Pompano Beach. The day of the full moon is usually slower, with the best bite at midday.”Įven kayak anglers take advantage of the summer-full-moon wahoo bite. ![]() He prefers to fish “three to four days before a full moon and then a few days after. Skip Dana, who charters selectively on his center-console Pop-A-Top out of Pompano Beach, Florida, says that in 2018, the wahoo bite was best around the full moon in September. I like to fish 2 miles north and 2 miles south of the inlets.”Ĭapt. “There’s so much more water flooding out of the inlet, and the fish are waiting for the food (baitfish) to come out. “My favorite moon is in August,” says Fay, who prefers the days leading up to the moon and the day after. Then they struggled to lift the wahoo into their boat. The wahoo eventually came close enough for Fay and his friend to sink two or three gaffs into the fish. The fish, which ate a split-tail mullet, came within 15 feet of the boat after that initial run, then took off on another run. The fish made a 350-yard run, and we knew exactly what it was: a big, fat, giant wahoo.” We were doing a turn, and I looked over at the short planer rod, and that thing just started dumping. As soon as that moon popped, the one fish that we were looking for decided to feed. “We had been fishing in 300 feet, but we saw a storm coming in, so we went into shallow water, 97 feet.”įay continues: “Right before the sun went down, the moon was coming up. “It was rough…nasty,” recalls Fay, a Deerfield Beach, Florida, charter captain ( ). But he and his buddy were confident that it was prime time to catch a wahoo. If it hadn’t been the August full-moon period, Capt. Chris Fay would not have ventured offshore. The South Florida seas had grown into nasty 4- to 5-footers the sky darkened. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Winter’s not the only time to target Florida’s favorite speedster. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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