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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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Feb 22, 2018; 03:57AM
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Category: Guide Services
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Name for Contacts: Costa Rica Fads
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Phone: 1-800-388-9957
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City: Quepos
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State: Puntarenas
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Country: Costa Rica
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| Description: |
Costa Rica Fads is one of the top
charters for offshore & FAD fishing
in Quepos, Costa Rica. Costa Rica
FAD Fishing offers some of the best
fishing in the World.
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Kids only 12 and under fishing photo contest $50 worth of free fishing tackle for the photo with the most votes. Contest open to Kids only 12 and under at time of catch. Contest will be active once there are 8 contestants. Good luck to all.
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Ian MoppertUnknown as f...Brown Trout |
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| Ian Moppert, 12 |
| Ian spotted this trout slurpping tiny midges on the far side of Dry... |
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Aug 5, 2003; 10:26PM - Albright Knot
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Category: Knots to use
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Author Name: Steve vonBrandt/S&K Guide Service
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
Albright Knot
The albright knot is most commonly used for joining lines of different diameter, for creating shook leaders and when Bimini Twist is tied in the end of lighter casting line. It is also used to connect monofilament to wire.
1.Create a loop in the tag end of the heavier line, then feed the tag end of the lighter line through it.
2. Bring the tag end up and over the loop to make your first turn.
3. Make a series of turns around all three stands, keeping it as tight as possible.
4. make a minimum of 10 turns, bringing the tag end out of the end of the heavier line's loop.
5. To tighten the knot, pull the standing part of the heavier line. At the same time, slide the turns toward the loop end.
6. When turns are in a neat position, pull both standing parts to make the knot tight. Trim ends.
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May 13, 2019; 08:07PM - OCEAN-TAMER Marine Grade Bean Bags
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Category: Boats
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Price: $79.95 - $139.95
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Name for Contacts: Frank Abruzzino
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Phone: (941) 776-1133
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City: Palmetto
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State: Florda
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Country: usa
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Description 1:
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Every OCEAN-TAMER product is 100% marine grade and
built to last right here in the USA. These marine
bean bags have been tournament tested and approved
by professional offshore fishermen all over the
country. With our vast color selection, styles, and
sizes you are sure to find the right marine bean
bags to fit your boating and fishing needs. Come
visit our user friendly website and customize yours
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May 12, 2019; 03:54PM - 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
San Jose del Cabo
Anglers –
November 12, 2017
Peak season now for the panga fleets
out of San Jose del Cabo, this Sunday
is the annual Wahoo Tournament, which
also coincides with the sanctioned Iron
Man event in Los Cabos, many roads will
be closed off and patience will be
needed to navigate in any direction. It
can always be a challenge this time of
year, as everyone seems to want to
visit and go fishing all on the same
dates. Another couple of weeks and
things will settle back down to more
ordinary schedules.
Ocean temperatures are now in the 81 to
84 degrees range, still a few degrees
higher than normal for this time frame.
Early in the week we felt the season’s
first real consistent wind patterns
from the north develop, this made for
much tougher fishing conditions in the
direction of the Gordo Banks, Iman and
San Luis Banks. Many charters opted to
fish in the direction of Cabo San
Lucas, in calmer waters, catching good
number of fish, though the grade of
yellowfin tuna were smaller, off of
Palmilla Point there was a hot bite for
football sized tuna, with a few dorado
and wahoo mixed in. Bait netters were
still finding sardinas, despite the
heavy pressure, the bait schools were
now mainly concentrated around Palmilla
beaches. Other bait options included
some caballito, ballyhoo, slabs of
squid and chihuil.
Last weekend the Los Cabos WON Tuna
Jackpot was held and local La Playita
team “Estrella del Norte” with team
captain James Rosenwald and mate/angler
Adrian Miranda who caught the winning
338 lb. yellowfin tuna, taking home a
cool quarter of a million dollars for
their efforts, congratulations to them.
In tune up for the event last week, on
Tuesday, a 323 lb. yellowfin tuna was
caught from the panga Killer II with
skipper Chame Pino, in last week’s
report we mistaken did not mention the
angler who actually landed that fish,
this was local Los Cabos resident Jack
Dudenhoeffer. This week we had several
other cow sized tuna landed, including
Michael Aviani’s 220 lb., Miguel
Angeles with a 234 lb. tuna and Walter
Korbler with a 221 lb fish, all of
these taken off of the Gordo Banks.
Targeting the larger sized tuna
required lots of patience and
stockpiling larger quantities of bait,
sardinas, squid and chunks of skipjack
were all used, the majority of the
largest tuna were hooked on either
chunk of skipjack or strips of squid.
There were also nice sized tuna to over
100 lb. landed while fishing the San
Luis Bank, though that was tough
through much of the week due to north
winds, no big numbers of these larger
fish, but some anglers did account for
one, two and even three in one morning.
Most common sized tuna being caught
were more in the 7 to 15 lb. class,
these hit mostly of the sardinas, with
Iman Bank and Palmilla Point being hot
spot on particular days.
Dorado were much more scattered than
the tuna, limited numbers of these fish
were accounted for, more juvenile
sized, an occasional fish to 15 lb.
This is traditionally the peak time for
targeting wahoo, so far the action has
been random, not consistent day to day,
but for anglers specifically targeting
these gamefish, they were having
multiple chances and landed as many as
four per boat, though most felt
fortunate having one wahoo in the fish
box. They were hitting on both trolled
lures, such as Rapalas and also on trap
hooked baits, caballito and chihuil.
With the water temperature still
holding warm, we expect to have wahoo
in the area through next month as well.
Heavy pressure recently and wahoo can
prove to be one species that becomes
more elusive when large congregations
of boats are zooming around there
preferred feeding grounds.
Not much going off the bottom now, or
close to shore, that usually picks up
as water temperatures drop some. A few
sierra were caught this past week, also
miscellaneous pargo, snapper, but more
triggerfish than anything else.
The combined panga fleets launching out
of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina
sent out approximately 270 charters for
the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 2 black marlin, 58 wahoo, 14
sierra, 920 yellowfin tuna, 72 dorado,
3 amberjack, 1 yellowtail, 14 yellow
snapper, 18 huachinango, 22 Eastern
Pacific bonito, 65 white skipjack, 13
cabrilla, 3 barred pargo and 140
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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