A little more advice.
The nearby island Madrisqui has good fishing all around. The north and back side are more quiet and especially the part connecting Cayo Pirata is good. The main islans Grand R has decent fishing near the airport strip an at the fish cleaning area and further as long as you can go. Or you can go to a more remote island. I never used a guide but enjoyed going on my own.

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Cool runnin mon

Message for Gerard,

I see you are in Los Roques in March. I am there from Feb 29 to March 13.
If you aren't on an organised trip and fancy sharing a guide and boat for a day or two give me a shout.
Fished it last year, excellent, bigger than average bones

Many thanks for the offer. I'm there from the 17th to 24th, we actually fly over from Caracas on the Sunday, so will just miss you. There is a group of us and we're semi organized (well they try to!) but usually a couple go off an do our own thing.
Really looking forward to it! Hope you have a cracking time too.

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Gerard

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjH7XAZCR2c

Considering the controversy over Gummy Minnows I thought I'd have a go!
Forgive my amateur attempt, I only started tying files a couple of weeks ago and this was my fist attempt!
Great fun though. I wonder what the guides will think!
(You should see my "Rasta Blaster!")

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Gerard

very good geard being doing a few myself with yak hair and angel hair, must post them up

Hi
I have only just seen this post so I will add my own opinion.
I have fished Los Roques on 12 or 13 different occasions. I have caught lots of different fish, from tarpon of up to 100lbs and bonefish up to 11-12lbs.
It is a very unique place because of the amount of bait fish that are found at many of the beaches.
I have fished for bonefish with many different flies.
When I first went there some 10 years ago there was not as much fishing pressure as there is now and the bones would take anything.
4 or 5 years later they would only take very good bait fish patterns - hence the gummy minnow. I experimented with different patterns and together with Jan Kristensen (of Tapam fame) I came up with a floating gummy minnow. We fished them on a couple of trips and were amazed at the way that the bones would come up to the surface and take the fly, like a dry. On my last few trips I have hardly fished another fly. It is extremely exciting, almost horny, watching a fish with a mouth shaped for taking things from the bottom trying to eat a floating fly. - They quite often miss.

Regarding the debate of is a gummy a fly or not, I think is is a little pointless. There are now flies that fish just as well as a sinking gummy minnow but made from "normal" synthetics. Look at the Los Roques Minnows from Sportfish :
Los Roques Minnow Green .

The floating gummy minnows that I use do not catch as many fish as the other flies but they catch larger fish and it is extremely exciting fishing.

Have fun

Pete

Just come back from Los Roques. I was there for 12 days. Four days I was guided, and the others I did my own thing. I caught bones from all the islands I went - Crasqui, Madrisqui, Espenqui, Caranero, Cayo de Agua....

I took gummies, but the Fulling Mill Los Roques Minnows, tied with litebrite were for me, far more effective, with the grey one being narrowly more effective than the green.

Other than those, the only patterns I took and fished were gotchas, and size 8s were the most effective, accounting for the biggest fish of the trip, of about 9 pounds - absolutely breathtaking - caught in a foot of water. Watched it coming towards me from about 40 yards out, managed not to butcher the cast, and it pounced on the fly before setting off for Aruba!

Also caught snapper, needlefish, runners, bonito, spanish mackerel, Horse eye jack and broke my tarpon duck!

It's an amazing place, and I'm sure this trip won't be my last.