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Roosterfish from SHORE - huge

Bob H - 8-5-2010 at 04:53 PM

Check out this Youtube video and then read the article I've posted a link to. I can't believe the SIZE of what they are catching on a fly setup. Very amazing stuff if you like to fish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNPPKO56zk

and, here's the article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/sports/31roosterfish.html?...

You may have to cut and paste the whole nytimes link to get the story, or just google "Running Down The Man"



[Edited on 8-7-2010 by Bob H]

torch - 8-5-2010 at 05:15 PM

very cool , I'm not sure about running down the beach for miles , but I'd love to catch a roster from shore and have tried several times on the east cape with no luck. next time:yes:

Skipjack Joe - 8-5-2010 at 05:52 PM

Wow. Stimbo should see this video.

I'm too old to for that kind of running. There was a time though. The others thought I was nuts.

The frustration, though. I would lose my patience after a few hours of that and just try to snag one. You know - a particularly spirited strip of the flyline.

Bob H - 8-7-2010 at 02:46 PM

It looks like they were fishing the Cabo Pulmo area here.

roosters

pangamadness - 8-7-2010 at 03:04 PM

That took me south for a little bit. Thanks, very cool!

Russ - 8-7-2010 at 03:12 PM

Jeeze! I do that every morning. Put the coffee on then a few dozen wind sprints while I check out where the roosters are, grab the surf setup and sprint down the beach to where they are working and catch a couple 40#'s then back to the house before the coffee boils out, Take a few sunrise pix and start my day.:o

Skipjack Joe - 8-7-2010 at 03:33 PM

Russ,

For a few years after they paved the highway you could get 40lbers right in front of your place. Every afternoon, like clockwork, they would go on a feed.

Cypress - 8-7-2010 at 03:34 PM

You're gonna have to run many miles of shoreline/beach to catch much of anything along the east coast of Baja.:no:

Russ - 8-7-2010 at 04:10 PM

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Originally posted by Cypress
You're gonna have to run many miles of shoreline/beach to catch much of anything along the east coast of Baja.:no:


I don't know about other areas but that is truer every day in Punta Chivato and north. Still some dinks to play with so I've down sized all my tackle. Wonder what would happen if a big fish ate one of my offerings?
WEEEEEEEE!!! spooled:bounce:

pez gallo

stimbo - 8-7-2010 at 10:08 PM

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Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Wow. Stimbo should see this video.



Thanks for thinking of me Igor. I'm still looking for roosters to cast to... I think I need to set aside some time when the East Cape is fishing well, not when the family is out of school. I love the family time, however to catch fish, you need to be there when that fishing window opens.

That uTube video was a snippet from "Running Down the Man" from Felt Sole Media. A fantastic and entertaining DVD! That was filmed just north of Cabo Pulmo. The cameraman ended up catching that huge rooster on an 8wt rod.
Those guys have several really nice films. It's all good fish porn.

Jim

Pescador - 8-8-2010 at 06:27 AM

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Originally posted by Cypress
You're gonna have to run many miles of shoreline/beach to catch much of anything along the east coast of Baja.:no:


Cypress, you need to get your butt back down here and spend a week with me and we will show you some fish. We did have a big school of Roosters this year just off of the Estero San Marcos and my buddy broke his fly rod in pieces after number 3. Course, as Russ says, they were a little smaller, these were in the 30-45 lb. range but on a 9 Wt. rod it was almost more action than you wanted.
Did the same thing last week with Dodo's on the 8 Wt. and if the wind stays down, we will be back on those bad boys tomorrow morning. I had to tie up a new batch of flies cause the old ones got really chewed up.

Cypress - 8-8-2010 at 06:46 AM

Pescador, Thanks for the invite. :D When it comes to fishing the Sea of Cortez, you're "dah man". :D

Russ - 8-8-2010 at 07:13 AM

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Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Russ,
For a few years after they paved the highway you could get 40lbers right in front of your place. Every afternoon, like clockwork, they would go on a feed.


For the first few years I was down here there were easy pickings on all sorts of fun fish. You'd just cast out into a bait ball and HOOK UP! Well, No more bait balls. Hell this year there haven't been but a few sardineros and they haven't stayed more than a couple days. It's mid Aug. They're usually thick here.??

stimbo - 8-8-2010 at 10:12 PM

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Originally posted by Pescador
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Originally posted by Cypress
You're gonna have to run many miles of shoreline/beach to catch much of anything along the east coast of Baja.:no:


Cypress, you need to get your butt back down here and spend a week with me and we will show you some fish. We did have a big school of Roosters this year just off of the Estero San Marcos and my buddy broke his fly rod in pieces after number 3. Course, as Russ says, they were a little smaller, these were in the 30-45 lb. range but on a 9 Wt. rod it was almost more action than you wanted.
Did the same thing last week with Dodo's on the 8 Wt. and if the wind stays down, we will be back on those bad boys tomorrow morning. I had to tie up a new batch of flies cause the old ones got really chewed up.


Can I get invited too?

durrelllrobert - 8-9-2010 at 08:28 AM

what ever happened to filet and release:?:

Pescador - 8-10-2010 at 04:04 PM

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert
what ever happened to filet and release:?:


Skeet is the only person in the whole world who thinks that Roosters are good eating. :lol::lol::lol:

Bob H - 8-11-2010 at 09:04 AM

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Originally posted by fishabductor
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Originally posted by Pescador
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Originally posted by durrelllrobert
what ever happened to filet and release:?:


Skeet is the only person in the whole world who thinks that Roosters are good eating. :lol::lol::lol:


My whole family loves them.

I landed a 77lber in June off the beach...It came in dead after a long battle. They were the happiest people alive with a 77 lb rooster to eat. That is a lot of machaca.

This was a great year for big roosters!!!!


Did ya have to run after that big rooster?

Pompano - 8-11-2010 at 09:28 AM

Running from the house and casting to the roosterfish from my sea wall was a very commn occurence in the 70's & 80's. I caught my last big one from the wall about 10 years ago. T'was a ball!

Bill Thomas of Coyote Bay would rave about roosterfish. Could not get enough of it, although I tried my best. He loved it.

He also loved limburger, head cheese, blood kumla, haggish, ...should I go on?

p.s. almost forget to mention the roosters caught just below the Punta Chivato hotel back in the day. We would be sitting at the hotel bar patio having cold beer and watching for action below. Our casting rods with Kastmasters or Crocodiles were at the ready in PVC tubes stuck in the sand beach.

You would see the fins come slicing in towards the shallows, herding schools of baitfish into tight balls that the pez gallos would tear into. What a good time that was! Fish on!

[Edited on 8-11-2010 by Pompano]