First Person Report: Last minute mullet-assault leads to multiple trophy roosterfish landed on a Cabo beach

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BY MIKE BENNETT

Particular to Western Out of doors Information

CABO SAN LUCAS—We fished exhausting all week, and the chilly/scorching water collision pushed up and down the coast by over 30 miles in days. Fishing was powerful to say the least. Then on the final full day of my journey, Cabo surf-fishing information Wesley Brough (CaboSurfCaster.com) pulled out a miracle for us on a guided journey.

He took us to an previous seaside he is aware of nicely, and the morning began off sluggish like all the opposite mornings, However then there have been indicators of life with just a few roosterfish coming in on a ball of bait we discovered. That fizzled out, and at 9:30 a part of our group left.

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About quarter-hour later we seen the water had jumped one other 5 levels hotter, however the low tide had bottomed out. A half hour later we had been on the point of pack up and go away with a plan to come back again within the night. Brough ran to seize just a few rods he left down the seaside 30 yards and Jesse Acosta and I had been rounding up our sort out once we heard Wes yell “roosters!”

Jesse grabbed his rod and turned in direction of Wes and spots a rooster proper in entrance of him. I turned towards the seaside away from Wes to seize my rod and I immediately noticed the entrance finish of the insanity that was about to ensue. The solar was excellent and the low tide meant I might clearly see the dozen pods of roosters that ranged from 10 to fifteen fish per pod spaced out by about 10 yards per pod marching up the seaside in very shallow water. The final pod was behind the remainder had 30 fish in it and so they had been noticeably larger than the remainder of the fish in entrance of them. In my thoughts it was 20 pounders developing the seaside, and the final faculty was 40 pounders.

I ran towards Wes and Jesse within the cove screaming that a whole lot of roosters had been developing the seaside. I search for within the cove and there have been already 10 roosters corralling the mullet out of the rocks and pushing them onto the sand in entrance of us. We started casting and all of us had been getting chases however no bites. The wind to the face was making it troublesome to solid or work a stick bait. Pod after pod piled across the rock and at this level there are about 40 fish piledriving the mullet ball. We nonetheless are getting swirled and splashed on however nothing caught. I allow them to know the final pod had the largest fish and most numbers.

Proper then, that pod hit the cove, noticed the mullet and bum rushed it. At that time all of the mullet had been inside 10 toes of the shoreline and the present was epic. All of us casted on the enormous roosters rolling in and we obtained a triple hook up immediately. Wes’s fish got here off through the battle, however Jesse landed a 65-pound class fish. My fish was nonetheless ripping off line and settled down about 200 yards offshore. It took simply over 25 minutes to get him again to the waves and the entire time (to the most effective I might rely them) there have been about 100 roosters in full feed mode within the 40 toes in entrance of us.

I lastly obtained my fish right into a set of massive waves and Wes grabbed it because it slid up the seaside. He goes to select it up and needed to readjust his physique for the elevate. That is once I knew I obtained a dinosaur. We took fast footage of the estimated 85-pound fish (it felt like 90 plus).

Wes let me know he has guided and fished Cabo for 20 years, and it was within the prime three greatest fish he has ever seen or caught. The entire struggle I used to be kicking mullet again within the water from the seaside and watching extra roosters destroy a bait ball than I’ve ever seen in all my journeys mixed from going to Cabo for the previous 9 years chasing these fish. It was actually a as soon as in a lifetime expertise

Comply with Cabosurfcaster2 on Instagram to hopefully see the video. It is going to blow your thoughts. I can’t thank Wes sufficient,  and I  now have the holy grail of surfcasting: an 85-pound class rooster from the seaside on a 12 foot surf rod in addition! Discuss and ass kicking.

How good is the rooster fishing in Cabo? That final pod of fish had been all 65- to 95-pound-plus fish. My fish was within the prime three greatest within the pod however there seemed to be two different fish that had been the identical dimension or a bit larger that slipped via whereas all three of us had been attached. I’ll always remember the craziest hour of my life at 11 a.m. which is the deadest time of day for fishing on a bottomed-out low tide which additionally sucks for many fishing.

Neither mattered in the present day. Discover the bait and sit on it and see what occurs.

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