DonO, what is a rooster-fish? I'am unable to locate infos about him. The term 'size of a coffee table' makes me think. Rene Germany -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Don Ordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Datum: Mittwoch, 3. April 2002 07:23 Betreff: [VFB] Roosterfish Flies
>OK, I got one for the gang. > >Anybody have a good pattern for rooster-fish? Last year we got our butts >kicked- my only consolation was that it was my first time fishing for them. >Had a lot of lookers, but few takers- and we tried everything in out boxes. >One rooster was the size of a coffee table-I would really have liked to >tussel with him. I saw a fishing program on Sunday morning and they were >fishing roosters with spinning tackle and a large pearl red-headed >pencil-popper. They were being hit immediately. > >I know speed of retrieve is a key- they'll hit anything skipping along at >high speed. But getting them to take the fastest two-handed retrieve I >could muster was just not happening. So I tied some look-alike poppers with >red popper heads and pearl awesum hair bodies, just in case. I'll give >those a shot this year. > >But does anyone else fish for these and do you have any pointers? We had >great success with the dorado offshore, so maybe we can trade pointers. > >DonO > > > > > > > >
