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I Ate the World Record Wahoo?

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I Ate the World Record Wahoo??

By Ron

I have only caught one really big fish in my life and I am 64.

Back in August 1973, I lived in Merritt Island, Florida. My neighbor bought a new 23 foot boat and after several average fishing trips, he and I were talking one day. I told him that I always caught fish a few years earlier when I had my own boat. So naturally, he invited me to go fishing one weekend.

We left Port Canaveral early on a Saturday morning and I told him to head 45 degrees (NE) until we got into about 120 feet of water. We were trolling with ballyhoo and within 5 minutes of dropping our lines, I had a strike. It took 40 minutes to land what turned out to be a 101 & 1/2 pound, 6 foot long, Wahoo.

The fish filled most of the usable space in the boat and we were already tired so we headed back to the port.  We stopped in Cape Canaveral and had the fish weighted and measured. Then we continued home stopping at Tingley's Fish Camp in Merritt Island where I left the Wahoo to be smoked.

It made wonderful eating, however, a few weeks later I read in the local sports section of the paper that if I had certified the 30 pound test line I was using, it would have been a world record for that test weight line. A few years later another article referenced the guy (me) who ate the world record.

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Originally posted 2008-07-24 08:17:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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5 comments ↓
#1 FISHERMAN HAN SOLO on 07.24.08 at 11:35 am

THAT’S NOTHING! YOU SHOULD SEE THE FISH THE EWOKS WOULD EAT ON ENDOR! LooL361

#2 Tyler on 07.24.08 at 11:55 am

I live in Merritt Island, and that picture used to be up in Tingley’s before it was mowed over. My grandfather said he knew the man that was in the picture, the man that ate the world record. I never believed him, thinking “Who eats a 100lb fish, much less one that averages 45lbs?”

I guess I was wrong.

Welcome to Florida.

#3 Kiki on 07.24.08 at 1:33 pm

Wow! That is one big fish! You ate that? That’s crazy!

#4 Trophy Catch Volume I Update | Boating, Fishing, Hiking, and Camping in California on 07.27.08 at 5:07 am

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#5 kevin on 03.10.10 at 3:29 pm

I caught a sweet full bodied 53# 61″ last week in key west aboard the seaclusion check it out!

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