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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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| Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body. |
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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as 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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| 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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| 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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| My brother has 2 German Shepherds named Rolex and Timex. You guessed it they are Watch Dogs. |
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From Jan 01, 1999 To Sep 25, 2023
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Oct 27, 2019; 08:42AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
October 27, 2019
Anglers –
*Busy times now in Los Cabos, peak fall
tourist season, attracting hundreds
of anglers from around the world, many
of them participating in some of the
world’s richest fishing tournaments,
where pay outs can be in the millions
of dollars. Weather settled down,
perfect all around conditions, clear
sunny skies, slightly brisk now early
mornings, though days are still quite
warm. Ocean swells minimal, with
moderate variable breezes, shifting to
the
typical fall pattern, off the land,
from the west early, then switching
later out of the northeast, Ocean water
temperature ranged 82 to 85 degrees
from the Pacific and up past Los
Frailes, or in the direction of the Sea
of
Cortez.*
*Sportfishing fleets and tournament
participants are scouting out all
directions, searching all possible
options. Majority of local charters are
now concentrating on the grounds from
the Gordo Banks to Iman, San Luis and
some venturing as far as Vinorama.
Heavy pressure always means various
bait
options can become limited due to
unavailable resource. Though this week
with patience there seemed to be
sufficient supplies of sardinas, slabs
of
squid and caballito. Sardinas were
scarcer near the marina jetty’s and are
now seen schooling off of Chileno,
which means long back track for local
bait vendors, as well as later start
for anglers, if they want this bait
option. Other anglers are going early,
directly with squid and then some
are catching chihuil on certain high
spots, which proved to be probably the
best chance now at hooking into a
wahoo. Sardinas and the squid were best
choice for finding any yellowfin tuna
action. Dorado became very scattered,
saw very few this week, not many
billfish from the standard charters,
more
sailfish than others, a higher
percentage of anglers were preferring
to
target wahoo or tuna.*
*Yellowfin tuna were found in recent
days on the San Luis Bank, drift
fishing with various baits, mainly
sardinas and strips of squid. Yellowfin
tuna to over 100 lb. were caught, the
majority of the tuna hooked into
were in the 60 to 90 lb. class, no big
numbers, but later in the week this
bite did improve, some anglers later a
couple of quality tuna. Only a
handful of football sized yellowfin
most were quality grade, of course lots
of black skipjack and bonito to fight
with.*
*Not many wahoo seemed to want the
trolled lures, this week live bait
proved best, particularly off of
Vinorama, finding the live chihuil
baitfish was not always an east
guarantee. AS is the normal case, many
more
wahoo strikes were lost compared to
actual fish landed. With the water
temperature now still so warm, we
expect wahoo action to be even better
through next couple of months.*
*The a whole lot of bottom action even
being attempted now, on and off
currents and really nothing big
happening, more triggerfish, bonito and
smaller sized snapper.*
*T*he combined sportfishing fleet
launching out of the panga area from
Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out an
estimated 110 charters for the week and
anglers reported an approximate fish
count of: 4 sailfish, 5 striped
marlin, 88 yellowfin tuna, 9 dorado, 68
wahoo, 12 leopard grouper, 35
Mexican bonito, 19 yellow snapper, 3
dogtooth snapper, 4 pompano, 8 sierra,
6 spotted rose snapper, 12 rainbow
runner, 8 Pacific golden eyed tilefish
and 80 triggerfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
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Oct 27, 2019; 08:41AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
October 20, 2019
Anglers –
*The annual high stake billfish
tournaments are now on going, with the
granddaddy event of them all, the
Bisbee Black & Blue, scheduled for this
next week. So needless to say there are
large numbers of visiting anglers
now arriving. Last weekend’s scattered
rain squalls, turned into more like
isolated monsoons, very heavy rain on
and off, which did cause major
flooding in low lying locations. Now
conditions are clear, drying out, high
humidity just now starting to relent.
Over the full moon period the winds
became more unpredictable in recent
days, coming from the north and at the
same time swirling from the south.
Ocean water temperature has ranged 80
to
85 degrees, warmer currents in the
direction of the Sea of Cortez. With
recent squalls, winds and currents, we
saw varying ocean clarity. Most
sportfishing charters locally were
concentrating efforts on the grounds
from the Gordo Banks to Iman and
Vinorama. Bait supplies consisted of
sardinas, being netted in the surf zone
north of the marina at first light,
also caballito, slabs of squid,
ballyhoo, chihuil and skipjack being
used.*
*Local Ports was closed partially
Sunday and totally on Monday due to
thunderstorms, fleets were back in
operation Tuesday morning. Charters
began scouting out to see where the
best action could be found. Overall the
bite proved to be more scattered than
they were pre-storm. Combined factors
of being full moon, baitfish a bit
scarcer, added pressure, etc…More
success proved to be found while using
various baits, versus trolling
lures. *
*The Gordo Banks produced a handful of
yellowfin tuna up in the 100 lb.
range, though numbers of yellowfin tuna
found were higher near Iman Bank,
still very spotty through the week,
with anglers fortunate to land one or
two tuna, with the majority ranging in
the 20 to 70 lb. class. Dorado were
scattered on these same grounds, found
in smaller sized schools, while
trolling lures, rigged ballyhoo,
sardinas and chihuil. Most of the
dorado
we saw were in the 5 to 20 lb. range,
heard of some larger bulls found on
the Pacific.*
*Wahoo action being very good the
previous week, slowed down over recent
rainy and full moon period. Anglers who
did best were the few that were
able to find chihuil for use as bait
for slow trolling. A handful also hit
of Rapalas and rigged ballyhoo, we
expect wahoo to become more active as
conditions return to their liking.*
*A few sailfish and striped marlin
being caught on the grounds off San
Jose
del Cabo, we heard of more billfish
action on the Pacific and during the
tournament they have weighed in
impressive black and blue marlin.*
*Minimal bottom fishing being done now,
no numbers of anything but
triggerfish, a few amberjack, cabrilla,
pargo, snapper and bonito.*
*T*he combined sportfishing fleet
launching out of the panga area from
Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent out an
estimated 90 charters for the week and
anglers reported an approximate fish
count of: 3 sailfish, 7 striped
marlin, 72 yellowfin tuna, 76 dorado,
28 wahoo, 8 leopard grouper, 22
Mexican bonito, 1 broomtail grouper, 12
yellow snapper, 2 dogtooth snapper,
4 pompano, 1 mullet snapper, 5 surgeon
fish, 12 sierra, 8 amberjack, 6
rainbow runner and 125 triggerfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson / Operator
619 488-1859
Los Cabos (624) 142-1147
e-mail:gordobanks@yahoo.com
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Oct 14, 2019; 08:26AM - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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