| 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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| Did you know? |
| 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. |
| However than one species of fish are called fishes. |
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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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May 14, 2007; 06:42PM
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Category: Sportfishing Charters
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Name for Contacts: Roger Bligh
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Phone: 1.250.934.5530/1.866.934.5533
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State: British Columbia
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Country: Canada
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2011 fishing photo contest
A free tackle package to the photo with the most votes
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Oct 7, 2002; 06:07PM - Play Around?
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Category: Fishing Jokes
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Author Name: Chris
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
The Castaway
One day this guy, who has been stranded on a desert island all alone for ten years, sees an unusual
speck on the horizon. 'It's certainly not a ship, 'he thinks to himself. As the speck gets closer and closer,
he begins to rule out the possibilities of a small boat, then even a raft.
Suddenly, emerging from the surf comes this drop-dead gorgeous blonde woman wearing a wet suit and
scuba gear. She approaches the stunned guy and says to him, 'Tell me, how long has it been since
you've had a cigarette?' 'Ten years' replies the stunned man. With that, she reaches over and unzips a
waterproof pocket on her left sleeve and pulls out a pack of fresh cigarettes. He takes one, lights it and
takes a long drag and says, 'Man oh man! Is that ever good!'
And how long has it been since you've had a sip of bourbon?' she asks him.
Trembling, the castaway replies: 'Ten years!' She reaches over, unzips her waterproof pocket on her
right sleeve pulls out a flask and hands it to him. He opens the flask, takes a long swig and says, 'Wow,
that's absolutely fantastic!'
At this point, she starts slowly unzipping the long zipper that runs own the front of her wet suit, looks at
him seductively and asks, 'And how long has it been since you've played around?' With tears in his eyes
the guy falls to his knees and says. 'Oh sweet Jesus! Don't tell me you've got golf clubs in there too! |
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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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Jan 8, 2007; 11:23AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
January 1-7, 2007
WEATHER: The New Year started out a little bit cool with a fairly stiff northwest breeze pushing around the high 50’s nighttime temperatures. During the daytime we had warmer weather, most days reaching the low 80’s. At the end of the week we had some strong cloud cover move in and on Friday night the wind that brought it in our area really blew.
WATER: The Pacific side of the Cape remained warmer than the Cortez side for the second straight week with the Pacific being in the mid 70’s almost everywhere and the Cortez in the low 70’s. The Pacific side was choppy on Friday and the area in front of the arch had some very confused water on Saturday as winds up at the East Cape pushed up some swells from the northeast.
BAIT: Bait this week was 75% Mackerel, as the water continues to cool off there will be a change to almost all Mackerel. There were Sardinas available off of Palmilla at the usual $20 per scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: There was a little bit of slack in the bite at the start of the year on the Striped Marlin, but by the 7th it had reverted to what we were experiencing at Christmas. The Striped Marlin have been concentrated off of the Cabo Falso ledge and this has resulted in the majority of the fleet boats working within sight of the Arch. A few of the fish have come while bottom fishing live bait on the drift and quite a few more have come while slow trolling live or dead baits. The most exciting fishing has been the action under the Frigate piles. Suddenly the Frigates dive on the feeding Marlin as they chase the bait to the surface and the boats run to the spot and throw out live bait. When there are a lot of boats out, like in the middle of the day, this can be a tough way to get a fish and the traffic is pretty dense, but in the afternoons when things clear out a bit it can be a real blast! The fishing has been good enough on the Marlin that many of the boats have been releasing double digit numbers right here close to home. During the middle of the week the bite here died off a bit and the 95 spot went off, but that bite was short lived as the fish moved back to the lighthouse.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Strangely enough, the Yellowfin Bite has still not really taken off like it usually does this time of year. I went out on Wednesday and found a couple of pods of white bellied dolphin at 26 and 32 miles to the west and managed to get a couple of football fish out of them. With the dolphin sleeping and the bite a slow pick, we reeled the line in and continued cruising to the west. At a distance of 41 miles from Cabo we found a big pod of spinner dolphin and then had a blast on Yellowfin between 15 and 45 pounds. Being the only boat there helped as we could use lighter line and not worry about it. With a few frigates and lots of gannets on the fish it was no problem getting back to them after landing one. Other boats stayed with the first group we found and continued the slow pick. I heard that the same thing had happened with the 30-mile fish over the past several days and there had been nothing large found. A few decent fish are continuing to be caught at the inner Gorda, but the action there is very slow.
DORADO: The bite picked up for the New Year with most boats finding fish just off the beach on the Pacific side where the warmer water is. Best results were had by slow trolling live bait. Jeff DeBrown, a professional fly fishing guide from the “Reel Baja” on the East Cape had four Dorado on the fly yesterday for his clients and our buddy Lance from “Baja Anglers” put his client on a 40 pound fish the day before. The boat next to us found a pallet floating about 30 miles up the Pacific yesterday and caught limits of fish in the #30 range as well as some Yellowfin while fishing live baits and dropping jigs deep into the water.
WAHOO: The full moon we have just had resulted in more Wahoo than we have seen in quite a while, but none of them were very large. The average size was 30 pounds with some as small as 10 pounds. The banks and ledges on the Pacific side were where the fish were found.
INSHORE: My friend Jeff was able to pit his clients on 6 different species of fish the other day. Sierra, Dorado, Pompano, Skipjack, Ladyfish and Jacks all came to the fly for them. Normal tackle produced the same results for others and there were a few snapper and grouper as well as small roosterfish in the mix. Most of the action, if not all of it, happened on the Pacific side of the Cape.
NOTES: This weeks report was written to the music of CCR on a three CD set titled “36 All-Time Greatest Hits” from Fantasy Music, 2000. Thanks for the great Christmas present sis! To everyone, I hope missing one week was all right; I had a lot of things happening at the end of the year! Until next week, tight lines and “Go Seahawks”!
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