Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin name: Acanthocybium solandriSize: 3 to 5.5 feet long and 50–70 poundsTexas habitat: Gulf CoastOver two days last February, the seventeen guests and crew members on board the Dolphin Express charter fishing boat caught 109 wahoo in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, almost two hundred miles from the vessel’s dock, in Port Aransas. Iridescent blue-and-silver scales glinted in the sun as fish piled up on the deck. “It was epic,” recalls Captain Tim Oestreich. “There were seventy-pound wahoo free-jumping” in the waves. Wahoo swim in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Texas anglers fondly call the peak season Wahoo Winter, which lasts from late December to mid-March. What’s unusual about them?Wahoo…
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