The Wahoo Show for South Australian Angler Magazine

Shane Mensforth, journalist, photographer and Editor of South Australian Angler with mates Kosta, Eric and Jack turned our La Nina affected winter season around and got stuck into some good wahoo fishing. The first few days we struggled with some ordinary weather and quiet offshore fishing but still managed a couple of nice mahi mahi and a few missed wahoo crash tackles.

Eric & Jack with a nice double on Mahi mahi

The weather finally allowed us to one of my favourite wahoo pack spots and sure enough we were soon into some frantic action aboard Bite Me.

A quadruple hook-up, typical of a wahoo pack mass attack

Not monsters but plenty of fun on light tackle

Kosta with a nice Wahoo

Shane meets Wahoo... meets Shark !

Shane would have landed the largest wahoo of the trip if it wasn't for the attention of a couple of as yet unidentified sharks. This head and shoulders alone weighed in at 14kg. We got quite a bit of underwater footage (including those pesky sharks) which the experts are examining. Our new GoPro cameras are getting us some amazing footage..... I will be posting soon....

Not ideal popping weather and the GTs didn't bite but a few judicious casts landed a nice Coral Trout for the dinner table....and Matava Lodge Chef Kuki's special tomato & chilli sauce...

The Big Wahoo Move Into Kadavu Waters

Just had Garry Barmby and Shane Mensforth over for a quick 2 day fish aboard Bite Me.
Garry is the owner and MD of Angling Adventures, one of Australia's leading gamefishing holiday travel agents. Shane is the Publisher / Editor of South Australian Angler Magazine as well as writing for a number of other magazines such as Saltwater Angler.
Day one on the North side of Kadavu Island we caught a number of different species including mahi mahi, wahoo and narrow barred (Spanish) mackerel but the big fish eluded us.
Day 2 we worked the South side of the island and with slightly cooler water, we found the big wahoo. Garry's best fish was comfortably over 30kg (65lbs) and Shane finished the day with a beauty that weighed in on IGFA Weighstation Matava Resort's certified scales at 37kg (81.40lbs)
Good to see the bigger wahoo moving in. Its been a slightly late start to the winter wahoo run but it looks like we will be getting some monster hoo this season.

Keep that frigging thing away from my brand new combings !!!

Garry with a nice hoo over 30kg

Shane with his PB 37kg Wahoo taken on a Halco Lazer-Pro

That's a big head !