| 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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| 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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| God Bless The Troops |
| 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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Feb 23, 2018; 07:00AM
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Category: Guide Services
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Name for Contacts: Quepos Fishing Charters
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Phone: 1-800-388-9957
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Country: Costa Rica
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Quepos Fishing Charters is located
in the Quepos, Costa Rica and we
offer Full Day and 3/4 Day trips.
We’re ready to give you the fishing
experience of a lifetime!
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Ladies Only Fishing Photo Contest
$50 worth of free fishing tackle for the photo with the most votes. Contest open to Ladies only. Contest will begin when 8 or more contestants have entered at beginning of the following month.
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Jan 4, 2004; 08:18PM - Power Drop -Shot Tactic
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Category: Freshwater Bass Fishing Tips
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Author Name: Steve S&K Guide Service
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
We have been using a Power Drop Shot technique that you may have heard of, and it works great in Heavy Cover, and around docks and wood in rivers and lakes. We just rig a heavy weight of 3/8 to 3/4 of an ounce, and then tie on the bait, such as a Yamamoto 'IKA' tube about 10 inches up the line on a 3/0 Gamakatsu hook, and flip and pitch it right in the same way as a jig or other bait. It stays there longer and has more action. Deadly on in-active fish. To view more tips and tactics and chat with other bass anglers from all over North America, stop by and visit us at our Proboards! http://skguides.proboards20.com |
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Dec 9, 2007; 09:35PM - Custom Fit Boat Cover
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Category: [other]
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Price: Varies
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Name for Contacts: Elite Outdoors
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State: MO
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Description 1:
When only the best will do! A perfect fit: measured, tucked, darted and approved by Hurricane's own pattern and design craftsman. Vulnerable wear and stress points are double reinforced with an extra tough material sewn to the underside of the cover. An unbreakable 1/4' poly draw rope sewn with the perimeter hem enables the cover to be cinched tight to the hull. 1' poly loops are sewn around the perimeter of the cover to accept a Hurricane strap/buckle tie down kit, bungee cords, or rope ties for positive securing to the boat. Built tough to take the exposure and abuse that boat covers are exposed to when trailering, storing, or mooring.
Westland has over 16,000 Exact Fit Custom Cover patterns for over 200 different boat manufacturers. You will have your choice of 3 fabrics and over 30 colors.
To check to see if we have a custom cover pattern for your boat please Email Us your year - make - model - any accessories like towers, swim platforms, bow rails, radar archs, etc. |
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Sharkskin color chart...also, available in Sunbrella |
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Feb 21, 2011; 11:44AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT
Capt. George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
www.flyhooker.com
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
February 14-20, 2011
Weather: We had great weather this week with the daytime highs in the high 80's and the nighttime lows in the mid 70's. Mostly sunny skies with just light breezes from the east mostly, with the winds shifting and coming from the northwest at a fairly brisk pace at the end of the week.
Water: Surface conditions on both the Pacific side and the Sea of Cortez were great this week with the exception of the last day of the week as the wind started to blow in the night and the water chopped up on the Pacific side. On the Cortez side the water was calm with swells at their normal 1-3 feet and afternoon breezes from the east causing a very light chop mid-week. The big change from last week was in the water temperatures. On the Pacific side from the Cape to the San Jaime there was a temperature break of about 3 degrees with the water to the south warmer at 70 degrees and the water to the north a cooler 67 degrees. The exact same situation occurred up at Punta Gorda in the Vinorama area with the northern water just a degree cooler at 66 degrees. There was a warm spot that popped up on Saturday at the 1150 that registered 77 degrees and a few boats that became aware went in that direction to check it out but it had spread out and disappeared by late afternoon.
Bait: Caballito, a few Mackerel and a scattering of misc. other large baits could be bought at $3 each and if you were quick and lucky you could get a scoop of Sardinas for $25.
FISHING
Billfish: Well, I don't know if it is because of the full moon or not, but there seems to be a few more Marlin biting this past week that we have had for the weeks prior. We had clients that were seeing fish every day, and hooking up to them, but only about half of those hooked up were making it to the boat for a release. Our best day of fishing this week on Marlin was two fish released for two hooked up. One of them was a very decent estimated #160 Striped Marlin, the other the usual #110. Both fish were caught on slow trolled dead bait, and both were within 10 miles of the lighthouse on the Pacific side. This area seems to have had the majority of fish spotted this week, but they are still not very hungry. A few Swordfish were seen on the surface as well, but boats trying to drop bait down for them were having an issue with strong sub-surface currents and could not get the baits deep enough, finding some Thresher Sharks instead. There were also a large number of juvenile Mako Sharks out there, this cool water seems to be when they show up. Most of them were in the 15-40 pound class and they could be seen jumping and flipping out of the water on occasion.
Yellowfin Tuna: The Yellowfin Tuna bite had been decent if you were in the right place at the right time. The problem was that getting those two things at the same time seemed to be pretty much a crap-shoot. A lot of boats were able to find Porpoise that were holding great meter marks of Tuna, but could not get a bite to save their lives. Some of these pods of fish were within a few miles of the beach, others were over 30 miles offshore. There seemed to be a decent bite to the north on the Sea of Cortez off of San Jose, and some of the fish were a decent 30 pounds, but for the most part the fish that were found were footballs of 10-18 pounds, and a decent catch was a few fish per boat. Those that were lucky enough to draw the lottery numbers were able to limit out on these fish, but as I said, there was no guarantee at all!
Dorado: There were a few more Dorado flags this week, but almost all of them were very small fish, less than 6 pounds. They were caught by boats working inshore for Sierra, as there were always lots of red flags, as well as release flags underneath. Unfortunately we did see a large number of these small fish leave the docks in bags being carried by the crews.
Wahoo: Full moon, guess what? Yep, almost no Wahoo to speak of, although I did hear of a few fish to 30 pounds caught up off the Punta Gorda area early in the week.
Inshore: It seems as if the Sierra have moved up the Pacific coast just a little bit. During the middle of the week a few Pangas were crying that they could not find any, but others were reporting good results just past Migraino. The same situation occurred for the Yellowtail as the bite dropped off on them as well as they continued to move around. Right place, right time and fish that averaged 15 pounds and went up to 30 pounds were bending rods, if you were not lucky then your wrists and arms hurt from yo-yo'ing for hours on small spots of fish. A few nice Pargo and other snapper were caught in the rocks and there was a scattering of other species such as Needle fish, bonito and grouper. The best live baits were Sardinas for the Sierra, rigged on a very light bite wire, and Caballito for the Pargo and grouper.
Notes: Thank goodness it has warmed up! We were able to take the quilt off of the bed. Our house guest for the past two weeks, Sandy West, has returned to South Dakota, stay warm Sandy! There are plenty of whales out there, I was standing at the first tee box at Cabo Real Golf Course on Saturday (starter) and saw a full breach offshore that threw up a splash larger than the 60' sport fisherman that was watching her! While Sandy was here we went out to eat at Maro's Shrimp house (reservations suggested, they are VERY popular) and had five jumbo shrimp and a New York Strip. We all agreed that the New York was one of the best we have ever had! Way to go Maro! We had some Wahoo left early in the week from the chunk we received from the 70 pound fish last week and Mary fixed it with a marinade of Vidalia Onion dressing, sauteed in a skillet. Wow! THE LEFTOVERS WERE GREAT AS WELL! The music for this week is a bit of a throwback for me, back to my jazzy days, a little bit of mellowness with John Klemmer on the Tenor Sax on his 1979 RCA release “Nexus One (for Trane)”
Track #1, Mr. P.C., and #4, Impressions, were written by John Coltrane. Until next week, have a great time and tight lines!
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
February 20, 2011
Anglers –
Crowds of tourists increased this past week, as the weather conditions warmed
up, we enjoyed clear sunny days that reached 80 degrees and with light winds
this made for great conditions offshore for visiting anglers. Ocean water
conditions averaged 69 to 71 degrees throughout most of the area, with a warmer
current of 73 to 74 degree area 12 to 15 miles offshore of San Jose del Cabo.
As the waters on the local fishing grounds warmed a few degrees in the past ten
days, this apparently helped improve the all around fishing action. Definitely
the most talked about bite has been the yellowfin tuna out of La Playita/Puerto
Los Cabos Marina, which were now schooling on the Inner Gordo Banks. Word spread
quickly as charters were catching an average of two to six tuna per morning
while drift fishing with live and dead bait. With as many as fifty charter boats
congregating on this spot it made for heavy pressure and the yellowfin were
finicky. Anglers using lighter leaders of 30 to 40 lb. reported the best
success. As much bait as possible was needed to help entice these fish into a
feeding frenzy where they could be fooled into striking the hooked bait. With
limited supplies of sardinas and high demand, this made for a bait supply
situation, in fact San Jose del Cabo charters were traveling some twenty miles
north , near Vinormama, in order to obtain limited amounts of sardinas. But
these baitfish were necessary in order to catch these tuna, which were averaging
in weight from 15 to 50 pounds, with larger species to over one hundred pounds
seen feeding in recent days.
Could be time to break out some heavier tackle and try chunk fishing with cut
skipjack, one pangero told a story of hooking into a monster tuna on Thursday
while chumming and chunking with fresh skipjack, I guess the gear he was using
was simply not stout enough and they never had a chance at slowing the cow.
In recent days there were increased numbers of striped marlin encountered,
everyday there were handful of these billfish hooked into while anglers were
targeting the tuna with sardinas, these fish ranged from 100 to 120 lb. One
incredible catch of an 80 pound wahoo was accounted for on Thursday by an angler
using only a sardina for bait and mono leader, no wire, this also occurred on
the Inner Gordo Bank.
Earlier in the week there was good action found for yellowtail, amberjack and a
few other bottom species. The area of Cardon was consistent for anglers using
sardinas and yo-yo jigs in depths ranging from 120 to 160 feet. The amberjack
were mostly in the 15 to 25 pound class, yellowtail average 6 to 10 pounds, but
almost every day we saw a one or two thirty pound plus class yellowtail mixed in
with the smaller schoolies. Strong currents continue to make bottom fishing a
difficult and at times unpractical option, as at times it became so swift over
these rock piles that it was not easy to reach bottom and then even harder to
avoid snagging rocks and losing gear.
The combined panga fleet launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 75 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish count of:
9 striped marlin, 6 mako shark, 8 dorado,166 yellowfin tuna, 22 Mexican bonito,
32 sierra, 18 roosterfish, 5 wahoo, 28 huachinago, 28 amberjack, 14 cabrilla,
142 yellowtail and 15 yellow snapper.
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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