b'Steppin Out Steps Up: Full Moon Wahoo Series RecapF ishing at first light calls for an early morning.headed into the final full moon with points already on Covering a variety of depths and a lot ofthe board. They did not catch a fish in July, but land-ground makes for a long day. When the mooned a 17.8 pound wahoo in August. BeachKomer is full and the wahoo are biting, these are will- followed this up with a special day offshore dur-ing sacrifices anglers make to target wahooing the final September full moon fishing day. and capitalize on the opportunity to landWhile docking to weigh-in at Sailfish Marina this elusive fish. that morning, Brian jokingly announced, I did The West Palm Beach Fishing Clubsa thing. He was subtly hinting toward the (WPBFC) 6th annual Full Moon Wahoofact they caught three wahoo that day, one Series was incredibly popularwith more thanbeing the single largest fish of the series at 70 teams fishing at least one moon, and 16 different52.1 pounds.Knot Negotiableteams catching a wahoo. BeachKomer logged a Austin Burkett and team Pour Choices kickedseries aggregate of 69.9 off the series landing a 31 pound wahoo during thepounds, really putting the Pour Choices July full moonpressure on other crews to land a final fishing day, goodwahoo if they wanted to win it all. enough for firstCatching three wahoo in one day is place.Jerretttruly impressive; catching a wahoo on Montgomeryall three legs of the series is equally, and team DTF2if not more challenging. Like team d id ntplaceYellowfin, Christian Mignano and in the July topteam Steppin Out logged a wahoo in three, but they put in a day of fishing they could hang their hat on.both July and August. They entered Jerrett and crew caught 3 wahoo that morning, the heaviest weigh- the final leg with a well-earned lead over the rest of the fleet ing 19.8 pounds. Teams were only eligible to weigh one fish eachand it was up toBeachKomerDTF2 moon. The crewthem to seal the withthemostdeal with one more weightloggedfish toward their fromallthreeseries aggregate moonswouldtotal. In an uncon-be named Seriesventional fashion, Champions. they would hook TheAugusttheir final wahoo trolling a simple blue & white Iland Jr. skirted fishing day was scheduled on a Saturday, 2 days after the actualover a rigged ballyhoo, fished from the rigger. Christian described full moon. Slick calm conditions produced several bites andthis classic presentation as old faithful. This hungry wahoo fish in the boat before 7:30 am. Phil Johnson and team Knoteating this time tested bait is testament to the theory behind the Negotiable took third place with a 32.2series, these fish bite around the full pound wahoo. Team Yellowfin barelymoons! Successfully landing this 16.1 surpassed this fish to take second placepound wahoo was enough to bring in August, weighing in a 32.4 poundtheir series aggregate total to 82.1 wahoo. This was their second fish ofpounds, earning them the title of the series and they were just one ofSeries Champions! Steppin Out got it two teams to catch a fish in both Julydone catching fish off a shotgun bait, and August. This had other teams onone on the planer, and lastly out of the edge, knowing that the Yellowfin crewrigger in what theyre calling a spread had won the Wahoo Series previously,slam. A huge congrats goes out to in both 2018 and 2021. these guys for consistently catching September rolled around and teamstheir targeted species each moon. once again dialed in their best trollingIts always fun getting out on the tactics, pushing each other to competewater and competingas a club. Thank and fish hard. Brian Komer and teamyou to all the members who support-BeachKomer were one of several teamsed the event fishing the Wahoo Series!'