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baitcast
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Towed to sea by a great fish.
Right time of year for this bump
Not being able afford a boat in my early trips to willard bay,just next door to Gonzaga I did all my fishing from the beach, punta willard and walking
distance from Papa Fernandez,s campo and it was there I met my first rooster-fish.
Every morning first light you could hear them coming,hunderds of mullet would be out front with a dozen or so huge pez-gallo in hot pursuit, the noise
would wake us up every morning and if it didn,t my daughter would,"WAKE UP DAD THE ROOSTERS ARE HERE" and I would jump up and grab my rod and start
throwing everything I owned at them and never a touch,what to do?
I began to put together the master plan no boat,what could I use to get off the beach? then I remembered a friend who had a one man life raft,problem
fixed.
The following took place in front of PaPa,s casa 1966 or 67,I had the raft inflated and in the ready position,two outfits,one for snagging a mullet
and the other for fishin,and here they come just like I knew they would,my heart rate started to climb just like I knew it would.
It didn,t take long to snag a mullet,pinned him on a hook an jumped in the raft and shoved off,I hadn,t went 50 yds when two big boys crashed the
bait,an I was hooked up to a fish I had dreamt about for two years,everything was going to plan,but then he had other ideas an started steaming east
toward the mouth of the bay doing a easy 40 knots.
I began hearing cheering from the camp "Dads got a rooster ya ya"but I think it was the other way around.
One man life rafts do not tow straight I found,they do slow spins and things were getting out of control,the line was heavy enough so no problem
there,and as the man said "getting towed to sea by a large fish what a hoot"
To shorten the story,after he cleared the point he headed south with me a couple hunderd yds behind,sharp rocks an fishing line do not mix! and that
was that.
I will never forget that morning and think of it often.
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Anyone can catch fish with a boat but only El Pescador Grandes can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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Cypress
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Thanks for the story.
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chuckie
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LOVE Roosters..They were tearing up the bay on Monday, looked like a giant blender...Great story....
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Correcamino
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Awesome story. Funny how stuff like this is a lot less "cool" while it's happening but way cool at the bar later! In about ten years, when
Cervecería Cuauhtémoc-Moctezuma has destroyed my last brain cells, I'll tell this story as if it happened to me. Can't wait!
Si sirve, sirve.
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Udo
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Thanks for the great story!
Kinda sounds like something Osprey would do and then write about it.
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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Pacifico
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| Quote: | Originally posted by chuckie
LOVE Roosters..They were tearing up the bay on Monday, looked like a giant blender...Great story.... |
Chuckie,
What bay? Are you down on the east cape?
Good times Baitcast!!!
"Plan your life as if you are going to live forever. Live your life as if you are going to die tomorrow." - Carlos Fiesta
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Hook
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Roosters, waking you at dawn, fisherman style. I love it!
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woody with a view
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that's a good one Rob!
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acadist
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Dave
I moved to CO and they made me buy a little rod to make it feel like a real fish
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Frank
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Ive got that twitch Rob. First triple digit temp today in San Diego confirmed it. Thanks for the great story.
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chuckie
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South end of Concepcion bay.....
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baitcast
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We used to see roosters as far north as in Puertecitos bay and caught my first one a few miles down the road from there,a little guy maybe 15" and saw
many in small schools from there to Gonzaga which tells me that they spawned in that area,but have always wondered what happened?
The locals never ate them? you hear about someone getting now and than,I caught small ones at BOLA in the south bay and I,m sure they
still show there at the estro mouth,if our anywhere near the estro mouth on a outgoing tide give it a try and don,t be surprised if you catch other
kinds as well.
Rob
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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BajaRat
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Thx, The bay must have been something in the 60's. Its one of our favorite places to make memories today.
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baitcast
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Things are a bit slow so I thought I would try an help, maybe a gab fest ? if we aren't catching them maybe talking will help or watching
someone else catching has always helped me.
Rob
Anyone can catch fish in a boat but only \"El Pescador Grande\" can get them from the beach.
I hope when my time comes the old man will let me bring my rod and the water will be warm and clear.
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ehall
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Great story. I can only imagine a big fish dragging me around. I got pulled all over a small pond by a 6 pound bass.
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LancairDriver
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This thread brings back a lot of great memory’s of what Baja once was with amazing numbers of fish and other ocean life. When I first started flying
down along the gulf coast in the late 70’s it was endless bait balls the size of a couple of football fields to keep you continuously entertained
for the entire trip. As of the past few years you are lucky to see even one on the average trip. It is incredible to see how fast the resource has
declined. New visitors are still impressed today when they have nothing to compare the scene with. I really enjoyed Pompano’s pictures and story’s
from that era which really was the high point in Baja when compared with the present. I miss Skeet telling us we just don’t know where to look when
the subject came up.
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Sr.vienes
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i’m amazed to find out there is two Nomads from Kingman Arizona.
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del mar
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few years ago we were fishing really skinny water south of Bufeo and hooked something that made a beeline for isla san luis, halfway to the island the
beast surfaced for air and there was a turtle the size of a Volkswagen with a chrome jig stuck in his butt! broke him off and sent him on his way
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AKgringo
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I would tell my story about being dragged around by a halibut, but that was in Alaska, so it would be off topic. 
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Pablito1
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One day in the early 1990s we were diving a little south of San Nicolas and saw this huge ball of bait right up against the beach. Easing into the
water you were surrounded by thousands of fish and could only see for a couple of feet. Suddenly the small fish would move and a rooster fish would
appear with a couple of them swimming very close, like a couple of feet.
I have seen roosters while diving at Punta Final during the summer. A friend speared a large one in front of Alfoncina's. I don't kill them because we
don't eat them. Regards
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