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Title: Caribbean?
Post by: Jay Burgess on March 08, 2009, 11:26:15 PM: Was watching a doco on TV about the caribbean sea. Barrier reef there looks aweseome and it got me thinking, do people pop there? I know you don't get GTs in the pacific but are there other reef ooglies that will smash a popper?
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Brandon Khoo on March 09, 2009, 08:42:44 AM: I want to catch a Roosterfish!!
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Scott Maybury on March 09, 2009, 08:48:42 AM: Yeah how awesome do those roosterfish look??

I was thinking of trying to organise a trip to Panama next year to fish for species including them, but think I will have to limit myself to Fiji and Bugatti instead
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Brandon Khoo on March 09, 2009, 09:01:14 AM: it comes down to how far you want to stretch your fishing dollar.
That's why I said initially that if your choice was Fiji AND Bugatti or one Diamond Islet, easy choice!
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Bruce Kievit on March 09, 2009, 10:13:01 AM: Hello, I just joined this board a few weeks ago. I found the Nomad website by chance a few months ago and am hopeful that maybe I can do a trip with them some time next year. This website has been great for learning more about fishing in that part of the world. I live about twenty miles from New York City and have taken a few trips down to Panama the last few years. Casting poppers for roosters and cubera snappers is great fun, and they also do pretty well casting them for yellowfin tuna. Other inshore species that will take poppers include bluefin trevalley and jack crevalle. The outfit I've fished with is called Pesca Panama and it is a mothership operation that works the Pacific coast around Coiba Island. Another well known operation is Tropic Star.
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Mick Cunningham on April 20, 2009, 08:52:45 PM: Quote from: Brandon Khoo on March 09, 2009, 08:42:44 AM
I want to catch a Roosterfish!!

hmm brandon

you better try to catch this big ;D ;D ::)
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Andrew Poulos on April 20, 2009, 09:03:01 PM: Thats a huge Rooster ! Love the look of those fish !
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Mick Cunningham on April 20, 2009, 09:29:10 PM: Quote from: Andrew Poulos on April 20, 2009, 09:03:01 PM
Thats a huge Rooster ! Love the look of those fish !

yeah i wish they were in our area too ;D ;D
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Nathan Cefai on April 20, 2009, 09:32:24 PM: costa rica has alot of good rooster fish,thats a monster though!!
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Chris Jones on June 18, 2009, 10:41:37 PM: Spent a few weeks in the British Virgin Islands last year chasing Bones, Tarpon & Billfish.. On one of the last days we tried throwing some poppers about a little lump in 15 metres of water. We had dived it previously and seen some huge mutton? snapper, what looked like big diamond trevally and other trevally I've never seen before. We had three poppers with us and they pretty quickly got destroyed by unknowns.. Hoping to get back there soon with more poppers and my heavier outfits to see what I can find.

Didnt hear of any reports of GTs from around there but theres definitely some big bad beasties roaming around. Lots of wahoo too ;-)
Title: Re: Caribbean?
Post by: Brock Arifovic on June 20, 2009, 08:10:47 PM: Brandon - What would "your" first choice be?