| Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef. |
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| The toxin in puffer fish is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide. |
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| Strange fish facts |
| Many Fish can taste without even opening their mouths. |
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| Fish Facts |
| Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales |
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| American Lobsters have longer life spans than both cats and dogs, living over 20 years. |
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| When you need a good reason to go fishing! |
| Going fishing outdoors increases your vitamin D, which helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in your body, keeping your bones and teeth healthy. It boosts your immune system and has been linked to fighting depression. |
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| Some fishes lay their eggs on land instead of in the water |
| The mudskipper even takes this further, even mating on land. These fish burrow and lay their eggs in mudflats before returning to the water. |
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| In three decades, the world's oceans will contain more discarded plastic than fish when measured by weight, researchers say. |
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| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. - George Orwell |
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| One fish is called a fish. Two or more are still called fish. |
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| Did you know that |
About 60% of US Anglers practice catch and release.
Women make up about 33% of fresh water anglers and
about 85% of fresh water anglers begin fishing at 12 years old. |
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| Just how man species of fish are there? |
| As of 2020, there were 34,000 known fish species around world. That’s more than the number of species in all other vertebrates: birds, reptiles, mammals, and amphibians combined. |
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| Even Catfish are finicky |
| Taste Buds ? Catfish have a more refined sense of flavor than humans. Our 10,000 taste buds may seem like a lot, but catfish can have as many as 175,000. This helps them find the exact location of their next meal. |
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Jan 5, 2004; 10:17PM - Spanish Mackerel Tricks
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Category: Fishing tips and tricks
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Author Name: Tony
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
I love fishing for Spanish mackerel, so I do it often. When I shove off to go fishing, I often stumble upon a very large school of mackerel, but sometimes they all don't want to feed and reject anything you throw at them. When this happenes, a good trick to get them to bite is to get them exited so they just want to catch what the think is a little fish just for the fun of it. To do this you would want to swich immediately to anywhere from a 1/4oz to a 1/2oz kastmaser-(like a spoon but a lot better). I make a long cast to where the fish are and as soon as that lure hits the water I begin to reel in just fast enough to get the kastmaser poping out of the water kinda like a fleeing baitfish. After it jumps out of the water a couple times keep it fast just below the surface. Do this at least 4 times during your retrieve and pretty soon you will have dozens of mackerel chasing your lure just for the sport of it until the lure bites back and then you get to have all the fun. |
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Tip&Trick Description 2:
When you get those swarms of mackerel chasing the your line, sometimes your lure will come to the boat a little early and the fish will ignore the katmaster and just swim away. To prevent this you want to go to the opposite end of the boat, make your cast, and then maneuver the lure so it will swim parallel to the boat, instead of directly at it, taking the mackerel with it. You will be catching mackerel right at the side of the boat. |
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Tip&Trick Description 3:
These techniques have worked for me many times and gotten me coolers full of fish and I hope they work for you, too. Good fishing till next time. |
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Nov 7, 2011; 10:38AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
October 31-November 6, 2011
WEATHER: What great weather! Our nighttime lows have been in the low 70's while the daytime highs have pushed the mid 90's on a few days but have been in the low 90's most of the time. No rain, a few clouds and not a lot of wind, just a light breeze. I really don't think it gets any better than that!
WATER: Surface conditions have been great this week with normal swells from the west at 2-4 feet and a light breeze in the afternoon from the northwest at 10 knots. Water on the Pacific side of the Cape has averaged 8 degrees from three miles off the beach and out, in close it has been 82 degrees. On the Sea of Cortez things have averaged just a bit higher with the warm water at 85 degrees from the shore to the 1,000 fathom line, from the 95 spot and to the north. Outside of there it has been 83 degrees.
BAIT: Just like last week, bait, at least good live bait was hard to come by. The tournaments we have just had really stressed the ability of the bait boats, or perhaps they just got a bit lazy the past few weeks, after all, they have to be making a lot of money at the price they charge. There were a few live baits of the larger size, but not much in the way of quality baits. Toward San Jose you could get decent Sardinas at a better price, there was a high demand here because of the tuna tournament and the price was high.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Some decent size fish were caught during the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament by boats looking for big Tuna. I heard of one fight with a Blue Marlin estimated at 450 pounds and another with a Black Marlin estimated at right around 500 pounds. There were smaller fish caught as well with a number of Blues in the 150-250 pound class. Not as many Striped Marlin were caught as were seen, they tended to ignore the lures and go for live bait instead, unlike the Sailfish who would jump on anything that came their way. I don't mean it to sound as if there were billfish everywhere, there weren't, but there were enough of them out there that every anglers stood a decent chance of catching one. Most of the fish were found on the Pacific side, but the Black Marlin were all reported from the area around Punta Gorda.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Big fish and plenty of them were the words of the week as we had two days of full on tournament Tuna fishing. Results posted by the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament only showed the larger fish, but there were PLENTY of ones in the fish boxes that never reached the scales. With a minimum qualifying weight of 30 pounds 108 boats fishing two days managed to weigh three Tuna over 200 pounds, all caught on the second day. The largest at 213 pounds took home 36K, second place overall took home 158K for their 206 pound cow and third place overall had a fish that weighed 205 pounds and was worth 21K. The second place fish was brought in just minutes before the scale closed and since they were across the board in all the jackpots they took all the money for the second day. There were plenty of fish caught that were over 100 pounds and uncounted numbers in the 40-80 pound class. A 48 pound fish took home 36K since it was the only qualifying fish caught by a boat entered in the 10K jackpot on the first day. Almost all the action happened on the Pacific side this week but there were fish caught at the Gorda Banks and due south of us, but the majority were to the west.
DORADO: Once again it was almost impossible to avoid catching a Dorado, but it appeared difficult for any of the 108 boats in the tournament to get one over 30 pounds since none that size were weighed in. With no really large fish reported there was no shortage of smaller fish out there, most of them in the 10-18 pound class. An average trip resulted in several of these per person, most anglers catching their limit, or at least as many as they wanted. Once again most of the action happened on the Pacific side. Great results were had by pulling lures up the coast until getting a bite, then drifting or slow trolling the area with live bait.
WAHOO: I was truly surprised that the largest Wahoo weighed during the tournament was only 55.5 pounds the first day and under 40 pounds the second day, but they still managed to make 26K for each of their teams. There were many other Wahoo caught by boats entered in the tournament, as well as by daily charter boats, but none that were very big. On average the Wahoo brought in were in the 20-25 pound class. Not every boat caught one, but there were enough out there that you stood a good chance.
INSHORE: Just like last week. The water temperatures are staying warm, so still some nice Roosterfish around, snapper, groupers, almost November, but I haven't seen any sierra yet. The Dorado fishing is also good close to shore.
FISH RECIPE: posted on the blog Thursday or Friday.
NOTES: Most of the focus this week was on Tuna, and for good reason. The water is perfect and the fish are here! Toss in the numbers of Dorado and the Wahoo that are being caught and it is hard to pick a better time to get on down here with an empty cooler to fill with fish. We have seen a few Humpback Whales this week so those giants should start putting on a decent side show soon. If the weather and fishing gets any better I will think I dies and went to heaven! Many thanks from me to Mark Bailey for the re-supply of CD's! This week's report was written to the music of the Rodeo Clown Dropouts, strange but true.
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
November 6, 2011
The Los Cabos area is now bustling with tourists, they have been enjoying pristine
weather conditions and this week visitors are being entertained by the main event of
the annual WON Jackpot Tuna Tournament. Scores of sportfishing teams will be in
search of the cow sized yellowfin that could win them a big pay day.
In recent weeks the ocean water temperatures had warmed back up to 85/86 degrees,
but now it is to back down in to the 82/83 degrees. This season the water
temperatures have averaged higher than normal, this created different migration
patterns for baitfish and the gamefish alike. Overall the Fall Season has not been
producing as consistent catches as would normally be expected. We do anticipate as
conditions normalize the action will become steadier. Winds have become more
predominant from the north and should maintain this pattern through winter.
Out of San Jose del Cabo there were bait shortage issues, with anglers having to
travel out of their way and patiently wait in order to purchase very limited
quantities of sardinas. Schools of sardinas were now congregated mainly on the
beaches close to Cabo San Lucas. We should start to see more caballito and then
mackerel before too long.
Yellowfin tuna have been schooling now for a couple of months on the fishing grounds
from the Gordo Banks to Iman Bank, these concentrations of fish have proved to be
exceptionally hook shy this season, perhaps it has to do with warmer waters,
abundance of food sources found at deeper depths, hard to say exactly what the
reason is? One thing for sure, is that the fish are on the grounds, making good
showings on the surface and everyday there have been numbers of tuna landed. The
fish coming from the Iman area are weighing 20 to 40 pounds on an average and the
fish found on the Gordo Banks are mainly starting at about 80 pounds, ranging up to
cow sizes. Slow trolling with various baits, chihuil, bolito, skipjack produced
strikes, as did drift fishing with dead and live sardinas and chunk baits. The key
was consistent chumming, light leaders and being ready when the opportunities were
there, lots of patience needed.
Dorado action was a bit more spread out, but once schools were encountered, anglers
could put several in the box in a hurry. Most of the dorado found recently were
weighing in the 5 to 15 pound range, with a percentage of larger bulls reported.
Wahoo are showings signs of coming to life, as they became more active in recent
days, anglers reported strikes while slow trolling trap hooked baits and on the high
speed troll with various lures, areas from Santa Maria, Red Hill, towards Punta
Gorda and Iman all reported ‘hoo strikes. Wahoo to over fifty pounds were landed, we
do believe we are going to have a great run of late season wahoo, from what we have
seen the fish are larger sized this year.
Billfish opportunities included sailfish, striped, blue and black marlin, typically
this is the end of the big black and blue season and the migration of striped marlin
will be moving back with the cooling currents. At this time, with warmer water
temperatures, you could hook any given species any day. This week there was a 340
pound black marlin caught by Dennis Powell from the Lake Tahoe area while fishing
with local pangero Chame Pino. There was a larger blue marlin lost the next day from
the same area, there were quite a few sailfish reported and some striped marlin
found surprisingly close to shore. A handful of early season whales also reportedly
seen in local waters.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 192 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for: 1 black marlin,
8 striped marlin, 18 sailfish, 17 wahoo, 242 dorado, 94 yellowfin tuna, 9 dogtooth
snapper, 9 amberjack, 16 cabrilla, 8 yellowtail, 8 rainbow runner, 12 hammerhead
shark and 8 pompano
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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