Richard Colyn takes the Wahoo Winter Gamefish 2017 at Vidal

Richard Colyn takes the Wahoo Winter at Vidal this year

The prestigious Wahoo Winter Gamefish, held every year up at the beautiful Cape Vidal, went off this weekend. More results and detail to follow, but fortunately we got a great shot of the winning fish – a 29kg wahoo.

For any spearo, the infamous and legendary competition, hosted by Wahoo each year, is the holy grail of hardcore. The wahoo are found deep off the back of Leven Point, along with sailfish and marlin, and of course, Zambies. Loads of them. They even swim in shoals there. In the shallower spots, sometimes a Giant Trevally takes the first prize.

Competition is fierce, as are the hangovers, and usually, the conditions too. The launch at Vidal is tricky on any day and often it’s too big and wild to dive one of the two days. The shore divers take extra strain, but soldier on regardless. It is usually the boat guys who get the better fish. Usually, as we remember Clive Kenton wheeling his massive winning kingfish along the beach on a borrowed bicycle one year way back then. He shot it in the pools down at Oscar Reef, a few clicks north of Vidal.

Thank you to Darrell Hattingh for the photograph and details. Check out Darrell’s amazing sculptures from the deep…

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