Roosterfish

[LevelGreener]

Hey guys,

Thought you might enjoy seeing another species for a change. We have a small place on the central Pacific side in Costa Rica and each year I try and take a charter for a fish I'd not caught before. This year we went after the roosterfish. I'd heard much about their tenacity and strong fight. The charter did well landing 4 Roosters...a couple in the twenties, one at 35 lbs and a monster I was fortunate to get...a "grander". Any over 50 lbs is considered very big ...the one I landed was 80 lbs. Took 40 minutes to boat...the biggest rooster the captain had had in 18 years of chartering.

Went swimming with it to make sure it was totally revised...besides was nice to cool off.

[samsalmon]

[tcon]

Now thats a neat looking fish!

[ray koziatek]

my guess is the line broke at the boat and you dove in after it..

[LevelGreener]

No fortunately I was patient and after 40 minutes of fight in the hot sun...a refreshing dip in the ocean was fantastic.

[Mortigan]

One more reason to visit Costa Rica. Beautiful fish...

[Gator]

Yowza!