Week 1 at Los Roques Venezuela 1st Week of March 2011
by Peter, 25 March 2011

We had a great start to our 2 back to back weeks at Los Roques with guests from Scotland, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Toronto, and the Calgary contingent. What a great group of people to spend a week with in such a spectacularly beautiful setting.  Everyone except for me was a first timer to Pez Raton and without question the facilities and food were every bit as popular with the group as was the quality of the fishing.

The bonefishing was superb and the average sized fish was weighing in at about 4 pounds. The largest fish of the week went to Ken Unger who landed this 9 pounder on a gummy minnow in the harbor. Top flies for bones were the Bonefish Bitters in olive size 6, the Pink Puff size 6 and the Gummy Minnow, when we were fishing the beaches. 

There were some absolutely enormous barracudas landed during our first week as well. Alan Lin landed one of about 30 pounds while the biggest one I managed to land was a 15 pounder. Howard was the guide who managed to get most of the guests into the big cudas and he certainly knew where to go in the atoll to find them. We enjoyed poached barracuda one night for dinner and it was truly outstanding.

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