The Rose family is a fishing family. Dad Roy Sr. was a well-known San Diego skipper for many years. Son Roy Rose Jr. skippers the Royal Polaris. He took his daughter Rosie on a long range trip when she was just ten or so, and Rosie got a fish (gaffed by daddy Roy Jr., of course) that made the 2008 Sportfishing Calendar from Bill Roecker and FishingVideos.com.

Now Roy's mother Carmen C. Rose has her moment, outshining the rest of the Rose garden with an official IGFA all-tackle world record for the shortfin corvina she caught in San Diego Bay last June 20.

The shortfin corvina (Cynoscion parvipinnis) is a good-looking croaker that resembles a white seabass or a seatrout. It's very popular as a sport fish and highly valued for the table. Carmen raised the record for the species from six pounds, 15 ounces up to a whopping 10 pounds, six ounces!

Fishing with Roy Rose Sr. just 40 feet off the beach in the south bay near the US Navy housing on the Silver Strand, Carmen cast a dead grunion and hooked her prize. The fish had a 16-inch girth and was 32 inches long. She used a 1/0 Mustad 9174 hook on 15-pound green Berkley Trilene line on a Quantum spinning reel and an eight-foot Shimano FXS 80 rod. She did not use any weight.

Carmen Rose's fish was weighed on the certified scales at Fisherman's Landing. The IGFA made her all-tackle record official in the past few weeks.