Anglers trolling for dolphin off Fort Lauderdale got some big surprises Saturday morning.

Dave Wetzel caught an 85-pound wahoo fishing on Just One More with George Istvan, and Keith Bedford caught a 55-pound wahoo fishing with his uncle, Paul, on 60/40.

Istvan and Wetzel had run 10 miles offshore and didn't get a bite. They were on their way back to Port Everglades Inlet, about five miles offshore, when the wahoo hit a blue-and-while Ilander lure with a ballyhoo around 10:30 a.m.

"All of a sudden one of my outriggers started screaming and it just wouldn't stop," said Istvan, of Hollywood. "We had to chase him down. He almost spooled a 6/0.

"I kind of maybe thought it was a wahoo or a tuna, because it went straight down."

Wetzel fought the fish while Istvan drove the boat. Wetzel needed 45 minutes to land the wahoo using 50-pound line with a 150-pound monofilament leader.

Istvan gaffed the fish, got it into the boat and called it a day. He and Wetzel weighed the wahoo at Lauderdale Marina.

"It was the only fish we got," Istvan said, "but it was the only one we needed."

Before catching the 55-pounder, Bedford, 16, of Coconut Creek and his uncle had lost a 30- to 40-pound wahoo at the boat. The fish hit a downrigger line and Paul Bedford was hand-lining in the fish the final few feet when it took off, so he let go of the line and the wahoo got away.

They made up for that fish at 9:30 a.m. when the 55-pounder hit a trolled ballyhoo in 175 feet north of Port Everglades Inlet.

Bedford needed 25 minutes to land the wahoo using a 30-pound outfit. The fish, which also was weighed at Lauderdale Marina, was 56 inches long with a 23.25-inch girth