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| Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef. |
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| Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back to at least the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period about 40,000 years ago. Isotopic analysis of the remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year-old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. |
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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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| If we’re going to be strict about it, jellyfish and starfish are not really fish because they don’t have a backbone. As a correction, many public aquariums are now using the terms “sea jellies” and “sea stars”. |
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| 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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Category: Guide Services
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Name for Contacts: Ralph Solano
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Hi Fishermen budies!
For kayak fishing trips and charters in Guanacaste,
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Kids Only Fish Photo Contest
Kids 12 and under only in this contest A free tackle package to the photo with the most votes. Contest ends January 2014
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May 1, 2004; 02:24AM - In-Depth Spinnerbaiting
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Category: Fishing tips and tricks
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Author Name: Steven Narup
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
When most people are asked, what is a spinnerbait? They will more then likely reply with this, it has a hook with a wire attached to it, with a lead head and a silicone skirt, with either one or two blades. The majority of the time they will automatically describe the clothes pin spinnerbait. Well in essence, there is much more to that. There is more then just that style of spinnerbait, this is what most people do not understand. Two other spinnerbait types are just as productive when presented in the right situation. These two baits are the tail-spinner and the in-line spinner. These baits are slowly catching on to the clothespin spinnerbait.
There are quite a few styles of spinnerbaits, including tail spinners, in-line spinners, and clothespin style spinnerbaits. Each style has there own time and place. The most widely used of these spinnerbait choices, is the clothes pin style.
Tail spinners can be a great choice when fishing for smallmouth bass and or finicky largemouth due to the baits compact size.
In-line Spinners became obsolete for many years by most bass anglers. Until now, they are slowly catching on to both Smallmouth and Largemouth anglers.
In-line spinners are a great bait when the fish are active but they can also be great when presented it other situations. Most people use in-line spinners when the fish are in a negative feeding mood, due to the baits smaller more compact size. There is one problem with in-line spinners, which keep the majority of people away from them, the fact that they will give you line twist. To help with this scenario try a high quality stainless steel ball bearing, this will cut back on the line twist. A ball bearing helps prevent line twist like so, when the bait starts to spin and twist in the water column the line will most likely twist without a ball bearing. However, if you have a ball bearing connecting the mainline to the leader, when the bait twists the ball bearing spins the line back so that the line will not twist as easily. If by any chance you do have line twist, let out a couple hundred feet of line into the water and turn your trolling motor on, this will get most of the twist out of your line. Another trick is the tie your line to a heavy object and stretch the line out by tightening your drag and pulling the line.
The clothespin style spinnerbait comes in many different combinations including blade size and style and different size heads. There are Steel and Titanium wires. The Titanium version is nearly indestructible, and needs little or no tuning at all. Titanium also lets off quite a bit more vibration then steel. The heads on clothespin spinnerbaits are starting to be produced with different materials as well, such as Lead, and Tungsten. Spinnerbait anglers are slowly starting to make the switch to Tungsten spinnerbaits, due to the fact the head is almost 3/4 the size of lead, making the bait work through cover almost effortlessly.
In general, spinnerbaits are a very versatile lure, which is one main reason why most bass anglers use them. Bass anglers have been using them for many years now and they still produce fish as if they came out yesterday, you just have to know the different ways to fish the bait.
Tail spinners can be great finesse baits and they can be fished shallow or deep, because the body of the bait is lead, with a little blade on the back. The majority of tail spinners come with a single treble hook, making them not as easy as the clothespin style spinnerbait when trying to fish through thick cover. To work the tail-spinner you can just reel the bait back to the boat, by doing this you will reduce the odds of catching more fish, but it does work. Instead, you should give the bait a little action. You can yo-yo the bait by letting the bait fall to the bottom, then pick your rod tip up to about a 10 oclock position, just keep repeating this procedure unless you are not producing. On the other hand, you can do a combination of things, to give the fish something different to look at. You can yo-yo the bait during part of the cast, then reel, or twitch it back to the boat. One last way to fish this bait would be to vertical jig it, in deep, clear, cold water. This technique will work in different conditions, but works best in deep, clear, cold water. When you vertical jig a tail spinner you cast the bait out a few feet and let the bait fall vertically, on a semi-slack line then you slowly lift your rod tip and shake the bait, let the bait fall and keep repeating this process. I like to use baitcasting gear when fishing tail spinners, but there are times when you need to fish lighter baits and that is when spinning gear comes into play. I mainly fish Pflueger rods and reels. The rods are very nice they come with premium Fuji guides and a Fuji reel seat, making the rod one nice package. I really like the Trion Baitcasting reel because they come with five ball bearings, one roller bearing and a smooth multi-disc main gear applied star drag system, making this a great reel for mostly any type of fishing. The reel is great if you want to fish a lighter line, because you can set your drag and the drag is so smooth that when a fish pulls there will not be as much stress on the line itself.
In-line spinners have been around for over fifty years, and they are still going strong, Mepps has been in the in-line spinner business for a while now, and they still sell great. Most anglers do not use in-line spinners while fishing for bass instead they are using bigger in-line spinners fishing for pike or musky. However, I know they are missing a lure that can catch bass like it can pike and musky. I have had great success fishing in-line spinners in creek openings, where the creek empties into the main river, fishing for smallmouth bass. In-line spinners can be worked shallow or deep, they come with or without tails, painted blades or non-painted blades. When you work an in-line spinner, the best possible way to fish these is to reel them in. If you try to jerk the bait, you will lose a lot of action, because in-line spinners are not made for jerking. In-line spinners let off a lot of flash, and maximum flash happens when you just reel it in. When I fish in-line spinners I like to use spinning gear preferably the Pflueger Trion spinning rod in a 6 foot medium action, with a Pflueger Trion spinning reel, because they come in a 6:3:1 gear ratio which will allow you to speed up the bait without getting as tired out. They are very smooth and cast light baits a mile.
Clothespin spinnerbaits are one of your more versatile baits in the spinnerbait family. You can work them quite a few different ways, and give the bait action if you desire. When I work a safety pin spinnerbait, I really like to use a Pflueger Trion Baitcasting rod, anywhere from 6-foot medium to a 7-foot medium heavy action. The 6-foot rod will help you when you want to make accurate casts, and the 7-foot rod will help when you want to get distance with your bait. With the Trion rods, they are extra sensitive high modulus graphite, which will give you the ability to feel the blades turn on your bait. I will throw the bait on 15-20 pound test Berkley Trilene XL. When you work a safety pin spinnerbait, you can just reel it in, but again you are going to be missing some fish. When I fish a safety pin style spinnerbait, I sometimes jerk the bait, doing this gives the bait sort of an injured baitfish presentation. You can also let the bait flutter down, then you pick up your rod tip, and repeat, doing this gives the bait a yo-yo type effect. If I am going to be fishing a spinnerbait in cold water, I will look for anything that lets off heat because this will warm up the water just a little bit, fish do feel the difference, and I will fish the bait around that. If the fish are just coming up and nipping at the bait, you may want to add a trailer hook for extra insurance. I will usually throw a spinnerbait with a trailer hook in any tournament situation. If the fish are coming up and hitting that bait and not taking it you can use a soft plastic trailer, I prefer the three-inch Bear Claw Grub from Bearpaws Custom Handpoured Baits. I like the Bearpaws grub because it comes with the scent baked right in to the bait, this will give you a definite edge on other anglers, because you will not need to use scent on the exterior of the bait.
Spinnerbaits are a great and versatile lure that have made a lot of many for companies in the fishing industry. The only thing I can that I can leave you with say is next time you go out on the water, I dare you to tie on a spinnerbait, and I know that you will not regret it.
To contact Bearpaws Custom Handpoured Baits please contact John Olsen at http://www.bearpawshandpouredbaits.com. If you are interested in any of the reels that Pflueger has to offer please go to http://www.pfluegerfishing.com
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May 13, 2019; 08:07PM - OCEAN-TAMER Marine Grade Bean Bags
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Category: Boats
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Price: $79.95 - $139.95
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Name for Contacts: Frank Abruzzino
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Phone: (941) 776-1133
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City: Palmetto
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State: Florda
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Dec 1, 2008; 11:36AM - Early Winter Steelhead PARADISE
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Category: Canada
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Author Name: Noel Gyger
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The photo of the week shows the results of some hard work. More often than not, anglers willing to go the extra distance and hike through challenging terrain find the best fishing. Nicholas Dean Lodge manager and head guide, Dustin Kovacvich, knows many of the best pools on remote rivers, and client Jake Bippart was able to reap the rewards. This was Jakes biggest Steelhead ever certainly a great way to finish off a week of fishing!
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Noel Gyger Guided Fishing Adventures and Weekly Fishing Report
4012 Best Street, Terrace BC V8G 5R8, Canada
Tel/Fax: (250) 635-2568
Cell: (250) 631-2678
E-mail: noel@noelgyger.ca
Home Page: www.noelgyger.ca
Fishing Reports: www.noelgyger.ca/past-fishing-reports.htm
RECORD SALMON & STEELHEAD Spin or fly-fishing
RIVER, LAKE, STREAM or OCEAN!!!
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Home Page: www.noelgyger.ca
Noel Gyger - WEEKLY FISHING REPORT dated November 23 November 30, 2008
Dear Fishing Friends:
SUMMARY: The weather has been fair most of the week but got a little ugly on the weekend. One thing is for sure winter is on its way. Many of us who like to use our boats are trying to get out as much as possible as we know we will have to put them away soon. The two main rivers we fish now are the Kalum and Zymoetz (Copper) Rivers. Both these rivers have good runs of Steelhead in them. There are rivers north of us with good runs of Steelhead also. I am referring to the Cranberry, Meziadin and Bell Irving Rivers. Trout fishing on the Kitimat River is very good right now. Check out the Ron Wakita report below.
I have been busy producing new podcasts. They ALL can be viewed at http://www.noelgyger.ca/podcast.htm at your convenience. Dont forget to subscribe to the RSS feed to receive the updates automatically.
LIST OF New ITEMS POSTED ON THE WEBSITE THIS WEEK:
One New item posted on 'Special Guided Fishing Trips' November 29/08
One New podcast posted on 'Podcast' November 28/08
One New podcast posted on 'Podcast' November 25/08
NOW BOOKING FOR 2009 Let me know if I can be of service to book you with the 'best' fishing guide and/or fishing lodges for both river and ocean. There are NO extra charges to book through me, just a lot of free information and advice from a person with years and years of fishing and fish guiding experience. It is like hiring two guides for the price of one. I will promptly answer your questions and concerns. Cast here http://noelgyger.ca/special-guided.htm to read more of what I have to offer.
NOTICE: BOOK EARLY and save money! The Canadian Dollars is low right now. Which way will the Canadian Dollar and the exchange rates go? The answer is no one knows. The Canadian Dollar is low at this time (as of Nov 29) A typical Weekly Lodge Package for 7 days/6 nights/5 days of guided fishing will cost $3500 Canadian Dollars in 2009. With the current exchange rate it will now cost $2824 in United States Dollars. A savings of $676. I would suggest you BOOK NOW before exchange rates go the other way. Cast here for current money conversion rates. Contact me anytime for package details.
Many people book three trips per year to our area; one trip in the spring (March-April-May), one trip in the summer (June-July-August) and one trip in the fall (September-October-November). They love having the same guide but fishing for different fish in different areas.
Be sure to check out my website at www.noelgyger.ca for news bulletins, mid week fishing updates, conservation, my history, quality waters strategy, special guided fishing trips, video clips, scenic river photos, wildlife photos and others, comments from past guests, informational articles, archived fishing reports from 1996 through 2002 and a sportfishing market place. I hope it meets with your entire satisfaction.
CURRENT REPORT and summary for Skeena and Tributaries:
TYPE OF FISH CAUGHT: Steelhead and Trout for river. Salmon, Halibut, Bottom Fish and Dungeness Crab for ocean.
Thank you for using barbless hooks.
FISHING THIS WEEK: GOOD
LARGEST FISH OF THE WEEK: Specie: 15-pound Steelhead. Angler: Chad Black Where: Kalum River
WEATHER: Rain. Amount 20 to 30 mm. Wind becoming southwest 40 to 60 km/h early this afternoon. High 6. Max. Temp. 2 degrees C. Min. Temp. -3 degrees C. Sunrise 8:32 AM Sunset 4:14 PM
WEATHER REPORTS VIA TELEPHONE: Environment Canada taped messages constantly updated, giving current conditions and three-day forecasts. Terrace 250-635-4192 Kitimat 250-632-7864 Prince Rupert 250-627-1155 Smithers 250-847-1958.
For current Terrace weather information please cast on:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/cities/can/pages/CABC0292.htm?ref=wxbtnold
WATER CONDITIONS: Skeena is in good shape. The Zymoetz (Copper) River is coloured up and in borderline fishable shape. The Kalum, Kitimat and smaller coastal streams are all in good shape.
CURRENT WATER HEIGHTS FOR:
SKEENA RIVER:
http://scitech.pyr.ec.gc.ca/waterweb/fullgraph.asp?stnid=08EF001
KITIMAT RIVER:
http://scitech.pyr.ec.gc.ca/waterweb/fullgraph.asp?stnid=08FF002
SKEENA RIVER: is in good shape. Fishing for Steelhead and Salmon may be slow as most runs have gone through although some Steelhead winter over in the main stem. Most of these good runs are found upstream from Terrace in the Skeena 4 section.
KALUM RIVER: is in good shape. Good numbers of Steelhead are in the river now. Fishing for them with fly or spin tackle works well.
This is a Classified River year round and can be guided from March 15 through October 15 only. The Steelhead record is 32-pounds. To see a photo of this fish cast to: http://noelgyger.ca/records/Record003.jpg The angler is Dennis Therrien.
ZYMOETZ (COPPER) RIVER: is coloured up and fishing for Steelhead will be slow.
AREA RIVER RECORDS: Chinook Salmon: Skeena River, 92.5-pounds; Kalum River, 85-pounds; Kitimat River, 74-pounds; Steelhead: Skeena River, 45-pounds; Coho Salmon: Skeena River, 27-pounds.
CURRENT REPORT and summary for Northern Coastal Rivers:
Fishing Report from: Ron Wakita of Reliable Guide and Charters
KITIMAT RIVER: With some milder weather this week the Kitimat River continues to produce good numbers of trout Cutthroat are typically the species of trout that are normally caught on the Kitimat this time of year but we are also receiving reports of Dolly Varden and the odd Rainbow trout caught as well. Worms continue to be the most dominant bait used to catch these trout but salmon roe has also been effective. I spoke to one fly fisher in our tackle store who landed six Cutthroat and one Dolly on Wednesday. He was using an Egg pattern and a Silver Minnow with a 4wt rod and said, 'he had a ball!'
The Kitimat Hatchery brood collection team also reports good numbers collecting brood stock. We are indeed fortunate to have the Kitimat Hatchery enhancing the Kitimat River. As is the case with most government facilities, the Kitimat Hatchery is now being scrutinized for budget cuts. Hatchery staff presented their budget numbers at the Kitimat Sports Fishing Advisory meeting this week. Their operating budget has been cut from $450,000.00 in 1990 to 230,000.00 in 2008. I was alarmed to hear of such drastic cuts to the Kitimat Hatchery's operating budget and even more appreciative of the job the Hatchery staff has been doing despite these huge reductions in funding.
I believe it is now time when government officials need to hear from the Sport Fishing Community how important this Hatchery is to maintain a sustainable fishery in our area. This fishery also contributes to social and economic development in our region and indeed our way of life. Stay tuned to this report for further updates.
DOUGLAS CHANNEL: Not much to report this week which is typical as Angler effort is minimal this time of year. I spoke to Ray Hepting who I consider to be one of the finest saltwater anglers and also one of the most knowledgeable authorities on fishing the Douglas Channel especially Winter Springs. He has retired from a successful Charter business and is able to fish purely for the love of the sport. Ray had little to report and when 'Ray speaks people listen'. It is possible that the run is late. Stay Tuned.
Tight Lines.
Ron Wakita
Cast to this link for Kitimat tide tables http://www.waterlevels.gc.ca/cgi-bin/tide-shc.cgi?queryType=showRegion&language=english®ion=1
Fishing Report from: Westcoast Fishing Adventures
Gill hasnt been able to get out fishing as much as he would like to. He is busy getting ready for next season. Maybe Gill and I can get out before the big snowfall comes. In the meantime he continues to send me some nice pics. I have included one below:
Fishing Report from: Nicholas Dean Lodge
Hello, for anglers who can find even a few hours to spare, this would be time well spent on local rivers in the Skeena region. Currently, water conditions are prime, and fishing a deeply sunk wet fly or retrieving a spoon through secluded pockets is a great way to entice often aggressive Steelhead into taking. When fishing with Noel and Rob Vodola earlier in the week, we encountered several Steelhead in the 10 to 14 lb range, and one even had sea lice on it indicating that there are some fresh fish around. With unusually warm temperatures this week, its made for pleasant fishing conditions, and we have certainly taken advantage of this!
And, if youre thinking about a fishing trip next year, this is a great time to book with Noel. Because its still early in the season, some spaces in the very best weeks are still available. Whether its casting that home made Steelhead fly in anticipation through that boulder studded run, or feeling the headshakes of a trophy Chinook Salmon, we are able to offer a number of packages for the discerning fisherman. Contact Noel today to find out more
Until next week, tight lines and screaming reels
Chad Black
Operations Manager
FISHING REGULATIONS WEBSITES:
2007-2009 BC tidal waters and freshwater Salmon fishing information:
www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/recfish
Effective April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2009
2008-2009 Freshwater Fishing Regulations Synopsis:
www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/fish
Effective April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009
NOTE: For In-season Regulation Changes posted on the web check the above URLs
GUEST FISHING PHOTOS:
*** If any of you have special fishing photos, testimonials, scenic river photos, wildlife photos or articles I would love to see them.
Catch & Release formula:
- Chinook: girth squared x length x 1.54 divided by 1000 (inches)
- Steelhead: girth squared x length x 1.33 divided by 1000 (inches)
I have now installed RSS feeds so that my fishing friends around the world can receive instant notification automatically whenever I have posted an updated News Bulletin or Podcast.
Cast to the RSS feed buttons on www.noelgyger.ca to subscribe today! Stay tuned...exciting times ahead
For your information: RSS stands for (Really Simple Syndication). If you have subscribed to the feed then whenever you go onto the internet you can easily check your Favorites for any new updates from me. For example, on the Windows Internet Explorer browser all you have to do is click on the orange star symbol located on the top left. RSS works on all of the other browsers. NOWthis is really simplego ahead subscribe todayyou will be glad you did. You will never, ever miss important fishing news from me again
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Buy, sell, trade or swap your item or items by listing them here today
Your Ad will receive LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL exposure:
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To view the items currently listed please cast to: http://www.noelgyger.ca/market-place.htm
To receive my WEEKLY FISHING REPORT and PHOTO via e-mail please send your name and e-mail address to: Noel Gyger noel@noelgyger.ca
GOOD LUCK and GOOD FISHING!
Yours sincerely,
Noel F. Gyger
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Home page: www.noelgyger.ca
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