BigBite Offshore Lures & Rods

Nice 'Hoo report from Bill Erhardt

2009-11-11T18:46:00.000-08:00

We have been receiving some very positive feedback on our Wahoobites and Wahoobite Jr lures. Our customer Bill Erhardt was fishing off of the Baja Peninsula this week and reported consistant wahoo action on our lures. The color of choice seemed to be red/black, with pink coming in a close second.

Bill writes:

"Mike, I received my order last week...Yesterday I used the Bigbite Wahoobite along side with an orange and black Yozuri Bonita. I caught 5 'hoos by noon and called it quits. 4 of the 5 fish were caught with the Bigbite Wahoobite. Today we went out again and I put out the Bigbite and caught a 60+ pounder. With all the fish being caught, the eyes were knocked clean off!"

Bill, dont worry about the eyes.. You keep catching those nice fish and we'll get some replacements in the mail to ya!!

Nice Wahoo!

2009-10-06T09:37:00.001-07:00

We received some more positive feedback on our wahoobite lure. This testimonial is from Gabe Heinisch from North Carolina. He writes:

"I wanted to share our catch with you from Saturday 9/5. Although it turned out to be a bad day to go to the stream because the wind never switched around to the East like the weatherman said it would, we were rewarded with a 62lb and 25lb Wahoo. Both were caught around 40 miles offshore while high-speed trolling towards the Same-ole.
Ever since we incorporated high-speed trolling we have more than doubled our catch.
Thanks Mike, keep makin'em"

Thanks for the positive feedback Gabe.. Wahoo season is just starting and the big boys are starting to show up off our coasts.. Be sure you get everything you need to make your next high speed trolling trip an eventful one! Click Here!

Martin County Seafood Fest and Nautical Flea Market

2009-09-19T06:56:00.000-07:00

Come see BigBite Offshore and Crew at the Martin County Seafood Festival and Nautical Flea Market this weekend Sept. 19-20 at the Martin County Fairgrounds. BigBite Offshore will be displaying our full product line along with our new Custom Offshore Fishing Rods. For more information and directions go to http://www.flnauticalfleamarket.com/. BigBite Offshore's booth number is 125-127. Free bud light and a visor with the purchase of one our our new custom offshore rods. Don't forget to mention that you heard about the show from our blog. We look forward to meeting some of our customers and making new friends.

Nice Wahoo!

2009-09-11T10:23:00.000-07:00

We were contacted by our customer Steve Sprague this week and he had a fish story to tell. On January 7th, 2009 he was trolling our pink/black "wahoo-bite" off the coast of Palm Beach, FL. His speed was 14 knots, and the fish weighed 50+ pounds. His email to us concluded by saying: "Nice way to start the new year!". You got that right Steve! Thanks for sharing!

For more information on our "Wahoo-bite" line of lures, or if you would like to add one to your tackle box, click here

Nice fins from our customer Matt Kimball

2009-08-24T09:46:00.000-07:00

Just received an e mail from a customer who had some success with our Bigbite Offshore Pelagic Plugs.. Here is what he wrote:

"Love the traditional cedar plug, so when I saw the Big Bite Offshore metal pelagic plug I thought it was genius. Ordered a silver one and threw it in the tackle bag. Then in May I took some friends fishing off Palm Beach, FL, trolling for mahi with the usual spread. Thinking I might get lucky with a tuna, I dropped the BBO plug way back on the shotgun. It got slammed, and to my suprise a big mahi was doing backflips on the other end. One fish on ice, reset the lines, this time putting the BBO plug just behind the propwash. It got hammered again, another mahi to the boat. Now I pull a BBO pelagic plug all the time. "-Matt Kimall, North Palm Beach

Thanks for the kind words Matt! Keep up the good work! You can check out our Bigbite Offshore Pelagic Plugs by clicking here.

Big Bluefin Tuna Caught on Bigbite Offshore Rod

2009-08-19T09:44:00.000-07:00

We recently received some positive feedback on our 1-piece 60-100lb Bigbite Offshore fishing rod. This is an e mail from our customer Jutsin Vyce from Lexington, MA:

'The rods are great, I landed this 65" 140lbs bluefin(not yellow fin) in about 25 min. Can really put the hurt on these fish now. Can't wait to go tomorrow. Thanks again, Justin'

Thanks Justin for the positive feedback and be sure to keep us posted on the results of your next fishing adventure! For more information on Bigbite Offshore trolling rods, click here.

Nice shot of the BBO crew..

2009-08-19T06:47:00.000-07:00

Here's the crew of Bigbite Offshore coming into port from a fishing trip. The dependable Grady brought us back home without incident as always.

This shot was taken by Wiley from http://www.reelboating.com/ @ Port Everglades.. The crew managed to pull in a few dolphin, including this nice one that ate a blue/white BigBite Offshore"Mini-bite" dolphin lure. To purchase this lure click here.

Wahoo Season appears to be near..

2009-08-18T19:32:00.000-07:00

We have been talking to fellow fishermen in our area, and it appears that wahoo are starting to enter our waters in thicker numbers.. When summer starts to give way to autumn, wahoo fishermen get giddy with the thought of line peeling off their reels at a staggering pace.. It is common for a mid-size wahoo to dump 1/2 the line of a 30 pound outfit on its initial run!

The crew of Bigbite Offshore has perfected their technique for targeting these torpedo's of the ocean. This particular wahoo was caught on our red wahoobite, and it can be found on our website at: click-here

We will be more than happy to share our experiences with everyone in the coming months! Until then, be sure to keep 'em tight!

Now that

2009-08-18T06:39:00.001-07:00

Now that’s a wahoo!

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Old Wahoo Footage

2009-08-17T20:47:00.001-07:00

This video is an oldie, but goodie!! One of the many good times on Mike's old 19 Mako "Kingfisher II". That Mako may have been small, but she sure did take care of us. This particular trip we had heard of reports of wahoo being caught south of Port Everglades all week. So Mike puts together a crew of three, Mike, Manny, and Pete. We decide that the earlier the better so we hit the inlet at just after dawn. The plan was to troll some BigBite Offshore "Wahoo-Bites" wahoo lures over the reefs in a zig-zag motion between 90-250. It didn't take very long before the line started peeling off and we knew what we had in store. WAHOO, AKA ONO for anglers out west. This video is the final 2:30 of the fight. Manny was on the rod, Mike on the gaff, and Pete filming the video. Enjoy the footage.

Storms, Storms, and more Storms

2009-08-15T12:53:00.000-07:00

Time to get back into the blogging so here we go..... Unfortunately there will be no fishing this weekend due to a tropical wave coming through South Florida this weekend. The forecast for the upcoming week and weekend are not looking good either. We have two more systems brewing in the Atlantic that look like they might affect our weather toward the end of the weekend. Let's keep our fingers crossed that these don't form into hurricanes. On another note we have heard of some nice wahoo being caught a little farther north around Stuart with a 102lb wahoo landed in the past week. Time to start to think about getting you high speed trolling setup out. If you need any new gear you can go ahead and log onto www.bigbiteoffshore.com. We have everything you will need to successfully go offshore and high speed troll. Our "Wahoo-Bite" wahoo lure has been extremely productive when trolling behind our "high speed trolling rigs" at speeds up to 18knots. BigBite Offshore carries three different trolling weights (24, 36, & 48oz) and finishes off the rig with 25 feet of 250lb Mono shock leader. BigBite Offshore also has just released the much anticipated "Wahoo-Trolling Rod". This 50lb class rod is specially designed for high speed trolling and deep dropping. The bent butt rod has all Pacific Bay Eliminator Jr. roller guides and is topped off with a swivel to ensure your line doesn't get compromised on the guides. To view some very detailed pics you can go to http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=93308&id=98153142548. To order your rod log onto www.bigbiteoffshore.com. Also if you are on Facebook, become a fan of BigBite Offshore and post your fishing pics and success stories. For every success story posted BigBite Offshore will send out a free lure!! Let's pray to the weather gods for these storms to die down so we can get out and catch'em up!!

New Years Day-Port Everglades

2008-01-02T08:49:00.002-08:00

Ok, Started off crawling out of bed at 6:30 to be at Mike's boat by 7. Got picked up from Carlos(Visiting from the USAF) and after a brief stop of Publix for the essentials(Sandwiches, Beer, Ice, Sunblock) we made it on time. Upon arriving at Mike's, Vlad(the Crazy Russian) starts the day off by breaking the door to the dishwasher. This is just a preview of whats in stor for Vlad later in the day, but we will get to that later. Back to the morning. Get Mike's 2002 Grady White 283 Release that he just purchased as a sort of Christmas present for himself, loaded up up with our rods, gear, and food with no problems and we are off to 15th Street Marina to fill up on gas and get some advice from Dave the dock guy. Upon stopping at the marina Dave informs us of a weedline that he heard about about 12 miles offshore that might be holding some dolphin. Just what we want to hear as this is Carlos's first time fishing and nothing beats the excitement of running into a school of hungry dolphin! I get on the radio to see if Julie(The bait lady that sits in front of the marina) has any pilchards left. She gets on and says come over so we grab a pack of rigged Squid from Dave and head over and get our livies and we are off. Our original plan was to troll inshore over the reefs for some Wahoo or Kings. Since there was no wind bringing out the Kite was out of the question. I am still stuck on catching my first sail, but today it is not to be. Leaving Port Everglades, the seas are flat and the weather couldn't have been better. We settle on trolling the reefs for at least a half hour to try and catch a wahoo. We head north toward the Steeple and get our lines ready. Long line Ballyhooed Wahoo Express with a pink and white Mylar skirt, Next line Dead Ballyhoo with a Black and Purple skirt, Next Black and Purple Teaser , and the short a little 6 inch Orange and yellow Dolphin squid type lure. We zig-zag from about 300 to 100 for about a half hour and nothing. On the Radio we hear a guy landing a White Marlin and another guy landing a sailfish. With the weather and the seas looking so good we decide to pack it in and head offshore to look for the weeds that Dave was talking about. Heading due east from the steeple we run into the mother of weeds in about 750 Feet. Being Jan. 1 there aren't alot of boats out there so we pretty much have this weed patch to ourselves. We drop in our lines switching a couple of the lures and we end up having a Pink and white artificial squid long, skirted ballyhoo and rigged squid middle and the yellow and orange artificial short. Within 10 minutes we are hooked up on a little peanut dolphin which gets the blood pumping. We let Carlos fight the fish and release him. About another 10 minutes pass and we are hooked up again with what looks like the same peanut. After that we get a double hook with one keeper about 25 inches. We run to one of the larger we patches and spot a school of dolphin and decide to throw some live pilchards at them. These guys did not want anything to do with the live baits. Every cast they would come and see what was on the end of the hook and not want to eat. We tried some cut bait but these guys were not hungry. We continue to another patch and try the same and come away a little better. We land one more keeper and get two break offs due to Vlad not having his Drag set and Mike not realizing that he was dealing with such like tackle. But it was fun none the less and with all of the fish it kept us busy the whole day. At around noon we decide to call it a day offshore and head back in and set up a drift and try to get something in around 90 feet. We have about four pilchards left so we free spool two and drop two more deep. Unfortunately luck was not on our side and we were all pretty tired and hungry to we picked up and called it a day. Upon getting to Port Everglades we are about ready to enter the port when we hit this monster swell that throws the boat to a sharp left and in turn throws Vlad and Carlos off their seats with Carlos ending up on the floor of the boat and me lunging for Vlad as he is half way off the boat with a mouth full of saltwater. What a freaky moment that was as I thought Vlad was going over board and then thought that he was going to be hurt from hitting the side of the boat so hard. Good thing the Grady has cushions on the side of the boat or else Vlad's ribs could have been broken for sure. All in all a great day out on the ocean with two nice fish to show for it.