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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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Starfish do not have blood. Their blood is actually filtered sea water. |
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Starfish don't have brains. Special cells on their skin gather information about their surroundings |
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Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
Though their names may suggest otherwise, cuttlefish, starfish, and jellyfish aren’t actually fish. Generally-speaking, fishes must have skulls, gills, and fins. Surprisingly, though, not all fishes have proper spines. |
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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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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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A bit of Humor |
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 May 04, 2024
12 Oct 2017 - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo September 17, 2017
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
September 17, 2017
Now in the final weeks of the summer season, we are seeing lighter crowds
of tourists, as families are now getting settled into the start of the new
Fall School semester. This is now peak time for tropical storms to develop
and potentially strike the Los Cabos area, this week is the three year
anniversary of the incredibly destructive Hurricane Odile. Two weeks ago we
felt the impact of a direct hit by TS Lidia, clean up and rebuilding is an
ongoing process. This week we have been following three separate tropical
systems off to the south of Southern Baja, Hurricane Max is now dissipating
as it made landfall in Southern Mexico, the other low pressure area off to
the west is not doing much, weakening and is circling far away from land.
The storm we are now carefully watching is Tropical Storm Norma, forecast
to reach category 1 hurricane status over the weekend. This system is
presently moving very slowly and gaining strength, latest forecast has
showed it veering further off the west, off of Todo Santos, but ii is
unpredictable exactly what path Norma will follow. So precautious
preparations are necessary, we are expecting storm surf surges to increase
as large as 15 ft. to 20 ft. on Sunday, hopefully not too high of winds and
surely we will have rainfall, hopefully nothing like the 27 plus inches we
endured from TS Lidia.
Calm conditions prevailed this past week, light winds in the afternoons,
mostly clear skies, very high humidity, slightly cooler temperatures at
night, with daytime heat index averaging 100 degrees. Ocean water
temperature has cooled slightly over the past couple of weeks, now
averaging 84 to 86 degrees. Off colored greenish currents are swirling
throughout the region, varied clarity in certain areas from day to day.
Most of the floating debris from the storm wash out has now dissipated.
The fishing has been on and off ever since the passing of Lidia, there were
good numbers of dorado found, though the majority were juvenile sized, an
occasional fish over 15 lb. Dorado were found in schools throughout the
region while trolling medium sized lures. Also they world readily strike on
a variety of bait.
Bait suppliers were able to find sardinas near shore early in the week and
along with strips of squid, these were the main bait options available. We
expect sardinas will not be obtainable over the weekend with high storm
swells, but as those reside hopefully sardina supplies will return and
remain steady. Yellowfin tuna were being found from the Gordo Banks and
towards the Iman Bank, action was sporadic, from scratchy to wide open,
depended a lot on clarity and currents that were running at a given time.
Often the yellowfin tuna were seen boiling on the surface, but they proved
to be finicky, some days biting right off the bat early, then slim
pickings, coming back up late, hard to predict. Average size tuna was in
the 10 to 15 lb. class, yellowfin tuna to over 50 lb. were accounted for,
though numbers were limited. Reports of tuna to 100 lb. seen in the mix,
though the larger grade of tuna have not been striking much. The majority
of all tuna action was found while drift fishing with strips of squid or
sardinas.
Only a handful of wahoo strikes reported, more of them lost than actually
landed. We expect when the water temperatures cool off a bit more and we
see cleaner blue water back close to shore, that wahoo activity will
improve. Billfish were scattered, a few sailfish, striped, blue and black
marlin hook ups reported, though we only had limited numbers of angler
visiting now and most of these were preferring to target species such as
tuna and dorado. No bottom or inshore action to really report on, besides a
few red snapper and triggerfish.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 49 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 1 black marlin, 6 sailfish, 12 white skipjack,
155 dorado, 3 wahoo, 170 yellowfin tuna, 5 yellow snapper, 14 huachinango
and 42 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
WWW.GORDOBANKS.COM
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