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Sergio

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  1. You have a very brave wife HPD, I would have never convinced mine to film that . Nice cast! Casting 150 yards with a plug is not easy at all. Most casters tend to over estimate their casts. The catenary on the line renders the line out reference useless to estimate distance. Done as you did is the only way to prove that the cast was really over 150 yds. Take care! Sergio
  2. Hi Tito, That post that was converted to an article is very old and even obsolete in some aspects. I think that I was still using or had just quit using conventionals to fish for roosters when I wrote it. There is plenty information regarding fishing for roosters in this forum if you use the search function. As in all types of fishing the most important aspect is locating them. Once I find a place they frequent in most (not all) spots I prefer to fish on a new mon and a high tide with clear water. I do not like too calm water and neither too rough. You can catch roosters with many lures. The best lures are skipping lures and my favorite is still the Ranger line of Roberts. Basically you should cast as far as possible and retrieve at a high speed in a way that the lure is skipping over the surface. I prefer to crank faster than most, but that is just a matter of preference. Check the past posts from HPD and mine and you will have some basic knowledge. There is also a lot of equipment information in this forum. Please release all roosters caught. There is no sense killing this fish and they taste not good at all. Good luck. Sergio
  3. El Zorro, no doubt! Good to see you catching fish. Sergio
  4. Scientific studies on roosterfish are very few and I doubt there is a single one related to the topic of your interest. I could at least determine when they spawn by their gonadosomatic index, but that would require to kill a good amount of roosters. The should spaw at the same time as Jacks. I could propose a study to some of the Institutes that I work with, but I am sure we would need at least $50,000 to $100,000 to gather and process enough information. Sergio
  5. You hit the nail in the head with a sledge hammer . I totally agree with you. Sergio
  6. Sudsratt... You can catch big roosters with tiny hooks, but the risk of killing them is high because it will take longer to land them... and I really dislike loosing a fish. There is no way you can make use of all the strength of properly knotted and spliced 60 lb Hollow Core JB Spectra using a treble 4/O hook. Using a 4/O and even a 5/O treble hook is fine with the drag setting that most of you down there use... not with my drag setting HPD has seen me using a method to land roosters much quicker than normal. This method is a short pumping method similar to the one used to fight marlin with standup tackle, but it requires a special tackle setup and a stonger hook is a must because the drag setting is considerably higher than normal. If I recall correctly the 8/O Mustad O'Shag's wire is too thick. I will provide the precise hook info. as soon as I check the precise brand and model I use. Using the proper split ring is a must and still, sometimes is a pain rigging the hook on the ring without ruining the ring. Sergio
  7. HPD and Sudsratt... One reason I do not like a double 4/O hook is because each of those hooks (and most of the time only one will carry the load) is made of relatively thin wire. When that +100 lb rooster I am looking for shows up, I would rather hook it with a 8/O single hook than with one of those double 4/O hooks. The strength of a 8/O hook is not double, but way more than double the strength of a 4/O hook. Now if you are looking for numbers and to hook even the pollos that show up, then I think that using 4/O double hooks is just fine. If we consider that hollow core 60# JB Spectra tied with that particular knot you know, breaks at close to 100# (and please don't make me climb again to a second floor to prove that) , I better match the hook to the equipment, and more particularly to the steer wrestling like technique I use. I am sure Capt. Ahab and Capt. Quinn would also choose the single 8/O over the double 4/O. Any tiburones yet? Sergio
  8. If the lure is a popper and worked as poppers should be worked, that will happen more frequently, but the Ranger is not a popper but a skipping lure worked in a very different way than a popper. I has to do mainly with how fast you are working the Ranger and the time the lure spends out of the water. I can assure you that in the usual way I work a Ranger (or any other skipping lure) it would be quite hard for a carangid to strike always the head. Maybe some times (the fewer IMO), but surely not always as you mention. Maybe working the Ranger slower without skipping or in the same way as a popper, the front hook would be needed but that lure is a very effective lure used as it should be used. In the slow motion part of the first video you can see what I mean. " target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPO_j...rom=PL&index=3 Same retrieve speed and although it is hard to see here, I can assure you that the strike came from behind. http://www.youtube.com/user/sergiosp.../0/MSrAOdWPu-o http://www.youtube.com/user/sergiosp.../1/G2ZxkVFUdXk I am also sure that working the Ranger slower and/or with the stop-and-go motion of a popper, a "chaser" fish could strike the Ranger on the head. I would love to see an under water video of a GT striking the Ranger on the head under the speed that I --or any other of the several fisherman in this forum that uses it to catch fish of the same family as the GT. Not because I do not believe GT could do it, but because I would like to see closely why they chose to do that and how they managed to do it. I will experiment soon with a Ranger and a front hook targeting another type of fish different to carangids and roosterfish, but that is another story. On a related matter, Roberts Lures is working on some new lures and finishes/colors... stay tuned. Best wishes.
  9. I forgot... this lure is one of the best lures in the world to catch fish swimming over 100 yds away from you. Put a treble back there or an assist hook and that sometimes priceless attribute is gone. Sergio
  10. The lure is a skipping lure originaly designed to catch fish that are "chasing" it and not "ambushing" it. Used as a top water skipping lure the rear hook is all you need. Unless you have found a way to use it at depth as a jig or in any other unorthodox manner I do not think it is needed. Sergio
  11. That is correct John. I mentioned this in the other post but not on this one. One of those things is the position where the rotor stops before tripping. I hope they fixed that. Sergio
  12. That would be great Alberto! We have MANY things to discuss. I will tell Gerónimo you said hi. Maybe we can meet in Cabo and then go across the Gulf. Best wishes, Sergio
  13. The large local is most probably Gerónimo, one of the best surf fisherman I have ever known. With a powerful cast, brute force attitude, but deadly effective (was he shown bleeding?). He is the manager of the Aries sportfishing fleet here in Mazatlan and most probably he provided the boats and the hotel for the filming operation. That is the way most of these filming projects are financed. Gerónimo was not with us when the rooster from shore was caught. It was Dennis, the cameraman and me. I am glad that Dennis got the chance to get that rooster on film as we were very short on time. The amount of Spanish words you now have in your repertoire is quite impressive HPD! Best wishes to all, Sergio
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