Monday 3/16
 

I got out twice over the week end only to be blown off by 9 am We were having a Santa Ana wind event here much like you were having up there, which resulted in my first 2 skunks on the yellows since I've been here. I decided to hit it again on Monday as the wind laid down nicely overnight. Monday morning was one of those perfect days. Greasy calm and warm. Decided to drive over to San Roque to launch where I caught a 34+ pounder on the previous Monday. Launched at about 6:30 and paddled to the waypoint where I scored last Monday, about a mile and a half. Landed on my waypoint and started throwing my blue and white Salsa and on about the 6th cast stuck this beauty. It is a new personal best for me coming in at 50 inches at the fork and weighing 47.8 lbs, including the game clip. It was quite a fight and it totally kicked my butt. He attacked my jig about mid column in about 110 ft of water but made a good run to a rocky high spot not far away in 75 ft of water. My job became to just keep him off the bottom if possible. There was one point where I felt him wrapped on something on the bottom but I gave him a little slack line and he swam out of it. I was not planning on keeping anything today as my freezer is still pretty well stocked from last Monday. When I saw him at deep color he looked massive and I checked my sonar and he was still at 25 feet. That's when I got my gaff at the ready. One of the local pangas was driving by and stopped to watch the last 5 minutes of the fight and when I stuck him they really whooped it up, even more than I did. "Grande Grande!" I took a couple pictures and tried to get a measurement on it and tried to give it to the pangeros but they were going to be out all day and could not keep something that size fresh on a hot day. Glad they didn't because my OTW shots sucked.

Here's a couple on shore shots.


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Dam.. Great catch Rossman!

Ross loves San Roque it has been very good to him. It is his personal Jewel.

Beast of a fish!

BIIIIGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats!

FATTY!!!!

:luxhello::notworthy: !!!!!

Wow is all I can say. That is a monster.

Nice catch rossman!!! :luxhello:

Less than three weeks and your freezer is already full?:notworthy:

Living the dream...you the man :cheers1:

BEAST!!!! Great job!

Beautiful. Love San Roque. Have you tried the other areas down there but San Roque is the best so far?

Those blue salas are the ticket. No scrambled egg yellows for you?

The area out in front of me has been outrageous for calicos and I have caught quite a few yellows out there but nothing quality. There is just so much structure out there but I haven't found the real deep water close to a reef which is always a good starting point for yellows. That area is also where I had my altercation with the Sea lion so have given it a wide berth since then. There is no education in the second kick from the mule

congratulations! you really are living a dream... :cheers1:

My dream...only hope to reach your point some day. Soon enough, that place will be called San Rossman. Dive that area for bugs and if it's on, I'll be moving in with you. Jim

Great I will definitely go for the calicos over there.

Are they good year round there or is the summer the best time?

No clue. But I dare bet that our worst time of the year for calicos is better than your best.

Bow down...:notworthy:

So Epic---!!! Well done!

Mexico in general tends to discourage gringos from catching bugs. I think there is a federal law against it. They have a pretty strong co-op here in Asuncion and they make it pretty hard on the scab loberstermen that don't belong so I'm sure gringos would be fair game for vandals. Not saying that I won't give it a go, but it is off season for everyone right now.

That fish deserves an on the water shot. Wish I could have been there to take it. Sure there will be others to come.

Double limitz of rf, sucka.
You know youre jealous of my rockfish thumb.

WOW that's a pig. No puedo esperar para pescar alli!!!

Recreational take of any marine invertebrate is illegal in Mexico. Including squid.

No skiff trip reports allowed. Go to BD

Hey Rossman, any rockfish out at the reefs or at the Island?

Is that for gringos or everyone? I think the same rule applies for class and mussels also, but only for on residents.

My oh my, the dream keeps getting better. Congrats.

I have never run into any rockfish here Tony. Talked to a local Panga captain and he said the only good fishing here in the middle of winter is grouper. If there were rockfish I would think he would mention that too. I'll try to find out more about that.

Just as an aside, I know my son has fished the Hipolito bank which is 10 miles or so offshore, on a long range trip. Maybe he can chime in if they ran into any RF out there. Probably concentrating on tuna at the time.

Great Yellow!!!

I know that the local cooperatives are the ones who enforce the regs, and they call the cops on offenders. They're the ones with "la vigilencia" on the side of their trucks and usually a big VHF radio antenna. I'm sure if you're a local they wont enforce the regs, but as far as I know it applies to all recreational fisherman. It never hurts to go talk to the pangeros and ask them whats up with a particular species.

Awesome fish!!

Very nice :yt: My guess is that you'll be catching more personal bests at San Roque over the coming year!

Ran into sheephead and whitefish so they have to be somewhere.

Yo rossman whats the local forage bait? Still see flyers or any other baity fish?

That is awesome, what a monster. You're going to be eating so much Yellowtail that you might get to not liking it anymore, right. NAAAAAHHHHHH!

Freakin' pig!

I haven't seen any flyers while I have been on the water. I have seen schools of something out front of me being chased around by bonito I think. I caught one greenie On a megabait that I dragged around for an hour or so but no takers. I meter some schools but have not dropped a sabiki down to see what they are. Could be crab. They can make themselves look like a lot of different things on the meter.

I'm just messing with Rossman and this thread. I know the law down there. I have never caught, speared or netted bugs in baja...on the Gulf or Pacific side...:D Jim

Great post. Like reading a vacation novel.

Sure! Mess with the brain of a marginally senile old dude. Jim, you're a hoot

Thats the way