He said he’d have released the fish but it was hooked deep in the throat and would not have survived. “After pictures and a quick release we ended up repeating the process three casts later with a 45-pound rooster and a 25-pound jack crevalle.”īrough’s next cast, in near darkness, produced the snook strike. “I got hit right away on a big Savagegear stickbait and passed off the rod and it ended up being a 50- to 55-pound rooster. “As the sun went down we started to see the bait get really nervous and we launched casts out over the waves into the bait,” Brough recalled.

They were targeting roosterfish for catch-and-release photo opportunities. “The only things we had going for us is that the water was warm and there was bait in the area.”īrough and Strehle were casting lures beyond the waves and retrieving them rapidly so they’d mimic fleeing baitfish. Brough, owner of Cabo Surfcaster guide service, was fishing for roosterfish with Matt Strehle on the Pacific side of Baja California’s tip, in surf generated by Hurricane Enrique far to the south.Ī post shared by Wesley Brough were 25 to 30 mph and storm waves were stacked four to five waves deep,” Brough said.

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world record stands at 47 pounds, 8 ounces. The Pacific white snook, caught June 28, weighed 51 pounds, 4.8 ounces on a certified scale in town. To our surprise it was a monster snook like neither of us had ever seen before.” “The fish was on the beach in about six minutes and it was definitely not a rooster. Knowing there was not enough light for a good picture, I decided to horse him in and get him released.

“We were getting ready to leave when we saw mullet flying out of the water and decided on a last cast,” Brough, a surf-fishing guide in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, told For The Win Outdoors. After a recent day of fishing, in stormy surf and vanishing daylight, guide Wesley Brough tried one more cast and reeled in a “monster” snook that could shatter a 20-year-old world record.

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