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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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| 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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| 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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| 2023 Best Fishing Photo contest |
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Jul 18, 2011; 12:07PM - 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
July 11-17, 2011
WEATHER: This was a pretty nice week, even though it was warm. Our daytime highs were in the high 90's and the nighttime lows in the high 70's, but it was still cooler than in a lot of the states. Quite a heatwave you have going on up there, come to Cabo and cool down! We had partly to mostly cloudy skies at the end of the week but plenty of sun during the middle of the week and the week started off with a light sprinkle on Monday, just enough to spot up the cars.
WATER: We had an early week upwelling of cool water along the beach on the Pacific side where the water went from 80 degrees down to 73 degrees and it has been slow to get back up there. This cool water wrapped around the Cape for a few days, cooking the water in the bay, but then the warm water from the Sea of Cortez took over and replaced the cool bay water. The Pacific near-shore water remains a bit cooler than we have on the Cortez side, staying in the high 70's. On the Cortez side of the Cape we have been seeing water temperatures ranging from 80 to 85 degrees with the warmer water coming from farther to the east mid week. Surface conditions on both side of the Cape were good this week with light winds in the afternoon bringing some small whitecaps on the Pacific side. The swells got smaller as the week progressed and at the end of the week we were seeing swells of 1-3 feet on the Cortez side and 3-5 feet on the Pacific.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were the baits of the week with a few Mackerel in the mix. Everything was the normal $3 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite has fallen off as we expect when the water gets over 80 degrees, but there are still some to be found. My guess, based on what I have been seeing is a success rate of about 35%. I have not seen very many boats flying multiple flags, two at the most, and the fish have been scattered. Best results on the Striped Marlin have been from the area of cool water on the Pacific side close to the beach. There have been more frequent attacks on lure from the larger Marlin as well! Reports of Blue Marlin up to 500 pounds taking Yellowfin Tuna as they are being reeled in gives you a reason to get out there, but they have not yet arrived in any numbers, just an occasional fish or so. Smaller Blue Marlin and possibly a few Black Marlin have been reported attacking lures pulled around the Tuna schools, maybe it's time to down-rig a few Tuna on the banks?
YELLOWFIN TUNA: A bright star for our fishing this week was the Yellowfin Tuna action. As is normal with these fish, first boats to the action had the best luck, and finding the action for the most part consisted of finding Porpoise. Find those mammals and you stood a fair chance of getting into Yellowfin that averaged 15 pounds and once in a while jumped over the 40 pound mark. I did hear reports of a few larger fish coming from the area outside of Punta Gorda, fish that went over the 100 pound mark. Almost anyone that wanted Tuna this week were able to get a few, and some anglers limited out. On a worry note, the purse seiners nave started to show up, but that means that there are more fish on the way, just hope they don't get them all before we have a chance at some!
DORADO: Another bright spot this week was the number of Dorado we have been seeing, and pretty nice fish for the most part at an average of 12 pounds. There have been a few really small ones that bode well for the next few months as they get larger, and of course the 40 pound fish that get everyone all excited. The majority of the larger Dorado are being found on the Cortez side in the warmer water and the smaller fish are being found close to the beach.
WAHOO: Full moon this week did bring out reports of some Wahoo being caught out there. As far as I could determine there was no concentrated effort for them, most of the fish were incidental catches made while fishing for other species.
INSHORE: Inshore fishing was a repeat of last week with the inclusion of a few more Dorado showing up. Roosterfish to 60 pounds, Amberjack, Jack Crevalle, Bonito, Grouper, Snapper, all the inshore fish are showing in the reports this week. The ones not there are the cooler water fish such as Yellowtail and Sierra. Slow trolling live bait is the key to getting most of the fish except the bottom species, and those were biting on butterfly jigs.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it. Sorry about this last weeks no show, I got busy and forgot!
NOTES: I have the birds singing in the background for my report music, and can just hear my dog snoring in the next room, life is good! Time to get her and Mary to the beach for our weekly walk, come home for a Sunday breakfast and watch the finish of the British Open and the ladies World Cup!
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
July 17, 2011
No new tropical storm systems at this time, we did have a day
earlier in the week with a few scattered showers and for much of the past week
we have seen more tropical cloud cover. With the little moisture that did fall,
the parched local landscape does seem a bit greener and humidity has noticeably
increased. Southern swells have been steady, as have winds from the south,
fluctuating currents, but overall the ocean conditions seem to be improved in
recent days, water temperatures averaging 80 to 84 degrees.
Mullet, caballito, jurelito and moonfish have been available for
bait and schooling bolito are being found on the fishing grounds. Anglers have
been waiting patiently for this summer season’s action to take off, everything
seems to be happening late this season.
The fishing has still not been consistent from day to day and the
fish counts have been below Cabo standards. With the way the water clarity and
temperatures are looking now, we do expect the action to break open at any
time. We have seen encouraging signs in recent days, lots of bolito on the
fishing grounds is always a favorable, just a matter of more numbers of
gamefish showing up.
Local fleets have concentrated most of their efforts from the
Gordo Banks to Iman and San Luis. The Gordo Banks produced dorado and marlin
action on the surface, trolling with larger live baits resulted in strikes from
dorado up to 40 pounds, though the majority were fish of 5 to 20 pounds. Quite
a few striped marlin also hitting in this same area, a couple of stripers were
landed that weighed close to 200 pounds. There was at least one blue marlin and
one black marlin reportedly landed, as well as a few sailfish, this billfish
action should remain steady the rest of the summer. Off the bottom on these
same banks there were some quality species accounted for, dogtooth snapper,
yellowtail, amberjack and grouper. These fish hit on yo-yo jigs and drifted
baits, many fish were lost, as they could not be turned before reaching the
rocks and cutting the line. No huge numbers here, but definitely a chance at hooking
into a big fish, it is another matter to actually land them.
Near Iman and San Luis anglers were using a combination of
jigging, soaking baits off the bottom or slow trolling larger baits on the
surface. Bolito has been the most productive bait for this, but jurelito were
also working, patience was needed and making sure to capitalize on the few
strikes taken. This is the spot where a handful of the larger grade yellowfin
tuna were encountered, the tuna ranged from 30 to 200 pounds, no significant
numbers at this time, but on any given day this bite could break wide open. One
local La Playita panga hooked into a 70 pound class roosterfish while trolling
a bolito on the surface over the Iman Banks, close to four miles offshore, this
is not your normal everyday occurrence for roosterfish, as they prefer to
patrol the inshore beach stretches for mullet or ladyfish.
It seems that the inshore bite for roosterfish and dogtooth
snapper has tapered off and is now switching back to the offshore rock piles.
The inshore season for dogtooth snapper never really happened much this year,
now we are starting to see more of these larger sized snapper on the rock
piles, this is the normal pattern, as they move from inshore out to the deeper
banks.
We do expect to see increasing activity for dorado, the same type
of action that has been found off of the East Cape region should shift in a
southern direction in the coming weeks. There has not been consistent dorado
action yet, but this week we did see increased numbers, so that is encouraging.
No wahoo have been reported, a few cut off baits here and there, so there is
always a chance.
Surf fishing activity has been hit of miss, a few snook being
reported by the group of local anglers who put in their time near the San Jose
Estuary, also a few reports of roosters, jack crevalle and snapper as well.
The combined panga fleets
launching from the La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out approximately 62
charters for the week, with anglers reporting a total fish count of: 6
sailfish, 17 striped marlin, 1 blue marlin, 28 yellowfin tuna, 58 dorado, 28 amberjack,
8 dogtooth snapper,18 huachinango (red snapper), 22 yellowtail pargo, 20 jack
crevalle, 13 yellowtail, 21 cabrilla and 26 roosterfish.
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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