Slept in and still slayed the wahoo

We hit the water at 8 am and headed out hoping to find bait as we normally catch them right at sunrise. While we were heading out to the spot my friend saw some smaller fish jumping and I thought they were leather jackets or lai. While we were catching bait they turned out to be small mahi mahi. A school of about 10 were attempting to eat our opleu as we brought them up. We had no problem catching plenty of bait and continued on. I set up with two baits on wire, one close at 50ft and another under a balloon 150ft away. After a quiet first 30 minutes my short bait started getting nervous. Something had grabbed it and so I opened the bail to let it eat. After it had taken 20 feet of line I closed the bail but the drag was too loose. The fish got away and I got my mangled wire back. While I was looking at the wire my other bait got hit on my live liner set up. As the line started speeding off the reel I clicked the reel into gear. Almost immediately a mahi mahi jumped out of the water. I didn’t know how well it was hooked, but I managed to get the 8 lb mahi to the kayak without losing it. While I was fighting the mahi my friend hooked into a wahoo. I retied both of my wire rigs having removed the mangled part above the main hooks. My friend landed the first wahoo and had hooked another much larger one as I put out two more baits. While he was still fighting his second wahoo I got hit with a high speed run on my short bait. I knew it was a wahoo as it luckily pulled me away from my other bait. After fighting the wahoo for several minutes my second bait got hit. I decided to bring the wahoo in first as it was only 50ft below the kayak. As I pulled the wahoo in the kayak I noticed that my other line was now way out up on the surface. Once I finally picked up the other rod there was still some weight on it. I thought It was giant wahoo that had been sharked. but it turned out to be a really big Bonita. The shark had taken 80% of the fish and so I decided to give him the rest. By now my friend had pulled in his second wahoo. I decided to target a yellowfin tuna but stuck out another live bait on wire. While moving to a different area I saw the mahi jumping again and began throwing 3 inch paddle tail on my bait rod. After several attempts I hooked one by the kayak and then immediately lost it as it jumped. With the small mahi gone I trolled quickly almost killing my bait in the process. I started reeling it in quickly, pausing it at 30 feet from the kayak to steer. In the same second I felt something grab my bait and saw it splash on the surface behind me. I immediately put it into live liner mode and the fish sped off with unparalleled speed. I clicked the live drag off and the fish continued to scream line off well past my 200ft of line mark. It came up another wahoo around 25lbs although I will admit that I thought it was bigger. It wasn’t the yellow fin for a grand slam but it is still the coolest wahoo hit I have ever gotten. Great day fishing in paradise.

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