More from the memory bank…… My first Wahoo over 100 pounds…. I believe this was November of 2012. I was running spearfishing trips down in Baja, and was diving in The Sea Of Cortez the day before heading over to the Pacific side to run a trip. My buddy Kevin had come down from NJ to dive with me. It was a windy, cool day, and we hadn’t seen shit all day. The spot we were on is either on or off, but when it is on in the later part of the year, it can be stellar for XL size Hoo’s. We had been drifting the spot for while, just punching the clock not seeing much of anything shootable, but there was good current in the preferred direction, and there was decent bait sitting up tide. I decided to grind out one last drift, jumped in, deployed my flasher and started scanning the blue. As I panned my head back towards my flasher, I was completely surprised to see a nice Wahoo that seemed to have materialized out of nowhere (as they usually do) right next to my flasher. We seemed to both have startled each other, the Hoo lit up and flared its fins as we made eye contact. I had a rear handle Ulusub with a reel on it (no float) and I made a quick shallow dive and took my shot, almost missing the fish and shooting over its back. Luckily I was shooting on a downward trajectory and when my shaft entered high on its back, it nicked the spine as it toggled down on the other side of the fish. It made a hard run, but I was able to eventually get the fish in my hands without a second shot. I did not realize how big it was until we got it in the boat. I put the fish on my lap for a photo and it was hanging over either side of the Panga. It was then I knew that this Hoo would possibly hit triple digits. We weighed it on my buddies certified scale back at the beach and it went 112 pounds. This was a huge bucket list fish for me at the time, and one I will always remember. Triple digit Hoo’s are a true trophy….
