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Holy mackerel were there some boats offshore on Sunday. Apparently we weren’t the only ones that heard about the good forecast. After a slow day on the Lump the day before, our plan was to troll for wahoos, but there was one problem: there were already 5 boats at every rig by the time we got there…and we didn’t leave late. That’s when we had to get creative. After fishing a couple underwater structures, we finally located a pile of wahoos without another boat in sight. If you wahoo fish much, you know that a hook-up ratio of about 50% is par for diving baits, and that on any given day, you could be on the up or the down side of that ration. Well, Mike Shankle and his brother from Shreveport, LA, were on the down side. I’m not blaming them at all, but it was just one of those days. We couldn’t keep a wahoo on the hook to save our lives. Fortunately, the one we finally caught was a good one. After 8 bites without happy endings, we finally landed this nice 56# wahoo. That wahoo, plus our limit of beeliners from earlier in the day, made for a decent bag of fish for the boys from Shreveport.