Ok, how 'bout some roosters, Costa Rica style!

kinembe · Jun-15-2006, 05:12 AM

Ok, how 'bout some roosters...

Imagine, your first time in the salt, and the first fish you encounter gobbles up your live 10 inch lookdown like a mere gumdrop, then makes a screaming run that burns the skin off your thumb. As you try to maintain control of the Penn International 12 that you have been livelining with the spool in freespool, your captain lends a hand and kindly slides the lever drag up into the strike position and a 60 pound slob of a rooster comes flying out of the water 30 feet from the stern of the boat and the 40 minute battle has begun.

Ok, you've managed to get one of these pigs on your line, are you sure you really wanted to? 45 minutes into this one, this woman wore out and passed the Penn International 975 to her husband for another 15 minutes of deep bulldogging fight before we hauled the giant into the boat.

Well, i s'pose that when you're catching 20+ roosters in a single day, you're bound to find a few dinks along the way...it was a tough decision not bridling this chicken for bait and seeing what really lives down there, but we figured we'd let it live to mature a little so we could catch him again.

Guys, don't mess around...get down to Quepos and check out the drag screaming inshore action!!!

...more topics to follow, if anybody cares.

lilharcher · Jun-15-2006, 09:06 AM

Those are some big boys!

To save your customers from those long, drawnout fights, you need to have some Avet 2-speeds on board!

kinembe · Jun-15-2006, 09:37 AM

ahh...lilarcher, it's not likely that those raels would hold up to the torture i put my reels through. i think i'll stick with the tried and true industry standard that it the Penn International...i have them from 9's to 130's and have worked them all hard from small reef dwellers to giant cape cod bluefins and have no complaints. However if i were to somehow win/be given one of these reels, i would gladly put it through the wringer and let you know how it held up after about a month of fishing with me.

After all, isn't the idea of light tackle to fight the fish for awhile?

GaffnLaff · Jun-15-2006, 09:48 AM

I like the reports, and great pics so keep em coming. That is one hella rooster. First fish ever? It's all downhill from there then. Thanks for the report.

lilharcher · Jun-15-2006, 04:24 PM

Chris,
Hopefully I'll get down there to fish with you in April and I'll be sure to bring the armada of Avets. Once you see/feel the power, you'll be a believer. I was a Penn International guy before the introduction of Avets and switched immediately after testing the product......there is honestly no comparison. BTW, are the big boys (inshore) around in April (1 - 7) and do they chew the topwater (such as the large Yo Zuri Surface Poppers)? -Matt-

JIGMEISTER · Jun-15-2006, 04:47 PM

Sick Roosters! I'd love to pull on some of those.

Keep posting pics to get me stoked for November. (I'm stoked already)

I'll be bringing my Avet JX 6/3. Death_To_

super redhawk44 · Jun-16-2006, 07:27 AM

Can you say PIGS

gordogringo · Jun-16-2006, 08:06 AM

Score!!! FNA

willywin · Jun-16-2006, 08:22 AM

great catch, great pics! might have to come join you some time.

fish is a fish · Jun-16-2006, 09:08 AM

BIG PIGS!!! WTG.
gota love the penn

Great report/pics.

doughnut · Jun-16-2006, 09:37 AM

Doooooood!!!! Great post/salespitch/wish i was there type deal!!!!! Thos are the KIND. God that looks like fun. That would be some fun on an avet SX OH YEAH! who wants to go with me????

shrimpcocktail · Jun-16-2006, 09:46 AM

thats some sick ass shit right there.. been dreamin of catching me a gallo since i first new these fish existed. big time jealous