Costa Rica
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Costa Rica
We were fishing off of the west coast of Costa Rica (pacific side). It was about a hour ride out to the rocks where I hooked up to the first roosterfish on a live rainbow runner. All of the roosters were released.
My brother hooked up to the next one on a live blue runner. We could tell it was a big fish by it's crazy first run.
We had one more runner, but no more roosters were interested, so we dropped it live on a little reef off an island. It got slurped within the minute by this big cubera snapper.
We were all out of live bait, so we put out some ballyhoo in the spread. A rod got hit within a few minutes by this cow dolphin.
My brother hooked up to the next one on a live blue runner. We could tell it was a big fish by it's crazy first run.
We had one more runner, but no more roosters were interested, so we dropped it live on a little reef off an island. It got slurped within the minute by this big cubera snapper.
We were all out of live bait, so we put out some ballyhoo in the spread. A rod got hit within a few minutes by this cow dolphin.
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Re: Costa Rica
Another rod got hit within a few minutes by this bull.
Here are the three. Not a great picture, but shows how fat the cubera was.
We also got a few of these, but I dont know what they are.
got one last rooster on the troll. Im not gonna lie, he worked me.
Here are the three. Not a great picture, but shows how fat the cubera was.
We also got a few of these, but I dont know what they are.
got one last rooster on the troll. Im not gonna lie, he worked me.
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Re: Costa Rica
Awesome fish! Roosterfish are definitely on my must-catch list.
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Re: Costa Rica
great post nice fish how big was that cubera
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Re: Costa Rica
awesome report. costa rica is a must one day!
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Re: Costa Rica
tell me about it!!!BRunner346 wrote:awesome report. costa rica is a must one day!
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Re: Costa Rica
Awesome report SK. Those Roosterfish are beautiful.
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Re: Costa Rica
Good job man thats a grest trip.
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Re: Costa Rica
SK, how did the Roosterfish fight? Like a big Tarpon?
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Re: Costa Rica
Cool. Did you eat him?
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Re: Costa Rica
Cool pics. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Costa Rica
not to far from land, how deep were you fishing?
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Re: Costa Rica
Not sure, but the land that you are seeing is these cliffs that go straight into the water. Totally unpopulated and like I said, it took over an hour ride to get there
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Re: Costa Rica
great report! I'd kill to go to Costa Rica to fish!
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Re: Costa Rica
Thinking about making a trip for the rooster fish in 2011 @ Costa Rico. Those roosters look very healthy.