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Acanthocybium solandri
How to catch Wahoo
Wahoo feed in 70–86°F water and bite best at 74–82°F. Fish Scouter's season calendar follows them in 18 waters; in October they are at their peak in The Florida Keys, Miami & Biscayne Bay, Palm Beach & the Treasure Coast and 12 more.
100 pts · trophy at 55"Feeds 70–86°FBest 74–82°FIn season nowLedge / hard bottomWreckArtificial reef
About
The fastest thing with fins: a striped, razor-toothed torpedo that hits a trolled lure at sixty miles an hour and empties the reel. On the ledges and the humps of the Gulf Stream, best on the winter full moons.
How to fish it
Wire leader, always. High-speed troll the ledges at 12 to 15 knots with weighted lures, or slow-troll a live bait deep on a planer.
What it eats
high-speed trolling luresrigged ballyhoo on wirelive bonito
Live bait for it
BallyhooRigged on a wire or mono trolling rig, skipping or swimming, behind a skirt or naked.
Blue runners (hardtails)Nose-hooked and slow-trolled on a wire stinger rig for kings; bridled for sailfish and cobia.
Goggle-eyesBridled through the eye sockets for sailfish and kingfish, kite-fished or slow-trolled.Opelu (mackerel scad)Bridled live and slow-trolled or drifted down for ahi, ono and marlin; cut for bottom fishing.
What to fish it with
the sizes that fish itLeader40–60 lb fluorocarbon
Hook4/0–8/0
Braid50–100 lb
The rule
not confirmed hereBag limit applies — confirm at MyFWC.
The current rule →Where it is, month by month
PPeakSSpawningAArriving·AroundLLeaving
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Mid & North Atlantic
Alaska & Hawaii