Enzo Newhard reeled in a 60.71-pound wahoo to win the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club’s Wahoo Windup Tournament, with 14 boats catching 25 wahoo totaling 637 pounds.
Sport fishers celebrate a successful Wahoo Windup Tournament, hosted by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club. With an exciting array of catches and a last-minute entry taking the spotlight, the event concludes the club’s tournaments for 2023.
It was about 30 seconds after lines went in the water that I hooked up the fish
Sport fishing is a sport enjoyed around the globe. In the U.S., 46 million Americans or nearly 16 percent of the population ages 6 and older fishes for pleasure, according to the Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation’s 2015 Special Report on Fishing. What’s more, angling for that big one isn’t an adult men’s only club….
St. Thomas angler Adrianne Baird Butler thought she had forgotten how to reel in a fish during her two-year hiatus from sports fishing following the birth of her daughter. Instead, the problem was that she had hooked into a whopper wahoo. Baird Butler’s 76.3-pound wahoo earned her not only the Largest Wahoo and Best Lady…
The early bird may get the worm, but it was a whopper wahoo that St. Thomas’ angler Angela Berry reeled in shortly after sun-up on Sunday. The 58-pound fish earned Berry the Top Angler title in the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club’s (VIGFC) Wahoo Windup, held November 22. Berry’s catch was about 17-pounds short of…
Being in the right place at the right time is what earned St. Croix angler Beth Basinski the Top Angler prize in the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club (VIGFC) Wahoo Windup on November 2. Basinski, fishing aboard the 65-foot Hatteras, Living the Dream, reeled in the largest wahoo, a whopping 42.35-pounder. This catch landed her…
A double-header hook-up landed anglers April Newland and Mike Landgraf cash prizes for the two largest wahoo caught in the Wahoo Windup, hosted by the Virgin Islands Game Fishing Club (VIGFC) and sponsored by Budget Marine. Newland’s 41.14-pounder weighed in as the largest, however still some 34 pounds short of earning the $10,000 prize offered…
November 2010: $10,000 for the first wahoo over 75 pounds, with the fleet limited to St Thomas and St John so small boats stand a chance.