Even so, all dories initially unloaded their catch to Kanimbla within the first hour as the weight of fish slowed them down and took up floor space. The tally of wahoo increased and ‘standing orders’ became ‘try to release all you catch’. The best guesstimate is that there were about sixty hook-ups from Wahoo in that early session. Dave caught a magnificent thirty three kilogram Wahoo that morning which went on to become ‘fish of the trip’.

Coral Sea Chaos was the logo on our trip shirts but a more apt title would have been Wahoo chaos. You don’t believe it till it happens to you. Sounds like a line that the editors push in the Penthouse Forums.

Gator & Josh did some kind of reverse Marlin Fever. They went to bed early the night before, and took only water in the dory with them. They were trolling quite close to the Mother ship as we where bottom fishing. Sitting at the back of the mother ship, we were treated to the sight of a large Marlin leaping out of the water and going spastic behind their dory.