| 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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| 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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| 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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Category: Canada Fishing Trips
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Pro Fishing Guide with over 30 years experience. Client stay at a beautiful fishing lodge with best meals.
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2010 Best Fish Photo Contest
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Aug 12, 2003; 10:50AM - Jiggin' It
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Category: Freshwater Bass Fishing Tips
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Author Name: Steven Narup
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
Jigs come in all sorts of shapes, colors, sizes, and even skirt materials. There are a bunch of different ways to fish them as well. However, to be able to catch them when the fishing is tough, you have to be very versatile. In this article, I will go through different ways of fishing jigs and I will begin to get you acquainted with this wonderful lure called a jig, in this little guide called “Jiggin’ It”.
Let me first give you a little bit of “background” about jigs. Jigs come made with many different kinds of materials. Just to name a few hair, tinsel and silicone. However, in this guide we will mostly be talking about silicone jigs. Silicone jigs are much easier too fish. Being that when they get wet, they become waterproof making them easier to slide through thick vegetation. To help aid the jig going through the thick milfoil some people use scent.
Jigs come in many different shapes and size, they even come with different shaped heads for different types of applications. They come made with a flipping, swimming, and even a stand-up type head. They also come in an array of different weight heads.
Jigs even come in countless colors and even different shades. It is best that when you first start out fishing a jig you should stick to basic colors. Some of the basic jig colors would include brown and orange, moss green and even black and blue.
When selecting a jig by its size you want to use as less weight as possible. Using less weight will give the jig a more realistic action and presentation. You also need less weight because bass will normally hit the jig when it is on the fall, and using less weight will help the jig fall slower. While we are talking about fall rate lets talk a little about jig trailers. Plastic trailers work great for cooler water, when the fish are more active. Jigs with pork are a deadly combination when the water temperature drops below 60. When you pick a trailer, you should keep in mind to match the trailer color to the color of the jigs skirt.
Now lets get into how to fish a jig. There are many different ways to fish them. One of the more popular ways to fish them is to do a hop and swim type retrieve. When you do this, you should make a long cast and then let the jig rest on the bottom for a few seconds, and then slowly lift your rod tip and let the jig fall back to the bottom. Then after a few hops you swim the jig a few feet, then begin to hop the jig again. This hop and swim method has produced greatly for many people all throughout the country.
Another way to fish a jig is to just hop the jig on the bottom or even drag it. However, one of the deadliest ways to fish a jig is to swim it close to the bottom or above a weed line. A seven-foot heavy action rod will give the jig enough action to entice big bass, be sure to pick a rod with a soft tip and enough backbone to horse the big boys out of the thick stuff.
The last technique I am going to cover is flipping and pitching. To do this you should flip the jig into weed pockets or into shoreline cover. When you do this, a good choice is a seven and a half foot heavy action rod and thirty-five pound monofilament. The heavy action rod will be stout enough to pull a five pound bass out the roughest spots you can flip your jig into.
This is just a little guide on how to fish a jig. If you experiment with different ways to fish them and you find out which technique the bass wants, you will have a killer day out on the water!
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Dec 9, 2007; 09:35PM - Custom Fit Boat Cover
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Price: Varies
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Name for Contacts: Elite Outdoors
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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.
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Sep 10, 2012; 12:22PM - 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
Sept 3 - 9, 2012
WEATHER: Hot, humid and buggy has been our experience on land this week, that's one of the reasons to get out on the water, or in many cases, into the water at the beach. With our daytime highs in the high 90's and occasionally breaking 100 degrees combined with the 80% humidity the flies, bo-bo's (no-see-um's) and mosquitoes have been a big annoyance. This happens every time after we have a big wet spell, but since it has been three years we tend to forget. The skies were mostly sunny late this week with just a few high, passing clouds but it looked as if we might have received some rains in the mountains early in the week as another storm system moved over the peninsula to the north of us and Hurricane John passed to the west.
WATER: We had a breeze on the Pacific side early in the week that was a result of feeder bands from Hurricane John coming through, and combined with a storm that came in from the mainland conditions were choppy and very bumpy early in the week. On Tuesday we were seeing swells to 12 feet coming in on the beach at Medano, washing right up to the retaining walls at the resorts and washing over the sand berm at the arroyo, filling in the area behind so it became a saltwater pool. This swell, a result of the passing hurricane, fell off very quickly and by the end of the week we had almost flat conditions with swells on the Pacific at 2-4 feet and on the Cortez side at 1-3 feet. Water on the Sea of Cortez has been warm in our area, often in the 89 degree range. Looking at the charts we can see water as warm as 91 degrees up in the East Cape area. Right in front of the Cape the water is 88 degrees but farther to the north along the beach it cools a bit to 84 degrees. Out at the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks the water is between 85 and 86 degrees. It is blue water almost everywhere you go as well, with it just a bit deeper in color on the Pacific side.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 each and if you went to San Jose and were early it was possible to get Sardinas at $20 a scoop. Most of the bait boats had frozen Horse Ballyhoo available as well at a very proud $3 each.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Striped Marlin and Sailfish remained the most common billfish in the area but there were a few Blue Marlin reported hooked and released this week, and a few small one that were caught and brought in, sigh. I heard of no Black Marlin this week but there may have been a few of these fish as well. Most of the Sailfish and Striped Marlin were found just to the south of us by boats looking for Tuna. A few were caught to the east at the 95 spot and many were found between 3 and 10 miles off the beach on the Pacific side. Dropping back a live bait or frozen (then thawed) Ballyhoo to fish appearing in the spread was the most common method that worked this week, throwing a live bait at a tailing or sleeping Striped Marlin came in a distant second as far as working went. It is exciting when a pod of Sailfish appears in the spread and suddenly there is a fish behind every lure!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Most of the Tuna caught this week were football sized fish, and later in the week you did not have to go far to find them. The area off of Chileano Beach had a good showing of these Tuna that ranged between 5 and 10 pounds early in the week. As time went on these fish slowly moved toward Cabo. At the end of the week the fish were right in front of the bay. The only difficulty was weeding your way through the numbers of Skipjack and Bonito that were mixed in with them. I was really surprised that with this amount of small tuna out there, there were not a number of Black Marlin hooked up. Maybe it's just a bit early for numbers of these billfish to show up. Offshore, looking for pods of Dolphin was the main method of finding tuna, either that or searching for the Tuna Seiners and their helicopters. There were enough Seiners out there looking to set their nets on fish that you had to get lucky to find fish for yourself. Most of the boats that got decent Tuna found small pods of Dolphin, pods small enough to draw no interest from the helicopters. Flying a kite to take your lure or bait well away from the boat was the most successful method used to catch fish to 150 pounds, but there were not many of these out there (fish I mean). I only hope that these vessels go away soon before they net everything in the area and leave us hoping for a stray tuna.
DORADO: Fish of the week, and most of them were caught close to the beach on the Pacific side, just as they were last week. Smaller lures in bright colors trolled at 8 to 81/2 knots brought them in, keeping the first fish in the water for a while brought in others. Most of the fish were in the 5 to 10 pound class but there were a few larger one to 20 pounds caught inshore as well. The majority of larger ones were caught at least 5 miles from the beach, and finding working Frigate birds was the key to getting more than one shot at fish that came as large as 35 pounds. There were not many of these, but if you worked it there was a chance of two or three in the box. Slow trolling live bait in the area of the Frigates worked well, very few anglers were willing to risk the chance of loosing a large Dorado by leaving one of them in the water as a teaser for more.
INSHORE: Inshore currents were variable this week and bottom fishing was scratchy as a result. The water is clearing up and the inshore catch was a mix of Roosterfish, Amberjack, a few Snapper and a couple of Grouper. Most of the pangas were going for the football Tuna and venturing a bit farther out for Dorado and Sailfish.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Off to the beach in a few minutes to get in some quality time before football! Sunday morning breakfast and Bloody Mary's when we get back from the beach. Think I'll fix up some Sashimi from our tuna as a snack! My music for this weeks report was something I have not listened to for a long time, a bit of reggae from a local band, Rhythm Force, off their self-titled album published about 10 years ago. Until next week, tight lines!
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
September 9, 2012
Anglers –
This week started off with thundershowers on Monday, this squall developed
from a local disturbance, shifting in from the east and joining forces with
the outer bands of Tropical Storm John, red flag conditions throughout the
area, ports were closed, winds to 30/40 mph, swells increased to 4/5
meters, before resided that same afternoon, a bit unusual to see such a
swell weaken so quickly. On Tuesday skies were clear and ocean conditions
nice, though for some reason local Port Authorities left the red flag
flying until later in the day, which meant morning charters were canceled,
at least this was the situation for Puerto Los Cabos Marina. There has been
a calming trend all week, the satellite map is the clearest it has been for
weeks, no area of low pressure at this time, of course this is still the
peak season when tropical storms can develop virtually overnight. In the
meantime the Atlantic has two named storms brewing, Hurricanes Leslie and
Michael. The next Eastern Pacific system will be named Kristy, hopefully
she stays clear of Baja, because local cleanup crews are already working
overtime, tackling the mess left by flooding rainfall. We can say that the
desperate local drought situation is now officially over.
We are starting to feel that first sign of cooler early morning fall
airflow, though by mid day the humidity is off the charters, September is
always a humid time of year, as days progressively shorten, in another few
weeks weather will really transition. Ocean currents are following
unpredictable patterns, raging shift one day and slacking off the next,
normally summertime has slower drifts, water temperatures are now in the
85/87 degree range. Inshore waters have been murky from recent runoffs, but
are now clearing daily, as surf conditions are weakening.
Crowds of anglers are light, ocean conditions are ideal, it is the perfect
time to try your luck fishing on the many local hot spots. In recent days
there has been encouraging signs, with large concentrations of skipjack
found on the fishing grounds, sardinas are once again available, being
netted off the Vinorama stretch and caballito is the common baitfish near
the marinas.
Yellowfin tuna have been slow to move in this summer, no real consistent
action throughout the summer, just in recent weeks there has been more tuna
activity being reported, most commonly smaller football sized, but there is
another grade of 100/200 lb. yellowfin in the area, a handful have been
landed. Everything appears to be gearing up for the action to bust loose at
any time. Though there is one discouraging note, that many commercial tuna
seiners are also now present in the area, just like clockwork, as soon as
the season’s first tuna are appearing within the range of local charter
fleets, now we have this armada of commercial vessels, equipped with
helicopters on board that are able to pinpoint the schooling yellowfin,
they rarely miss when they set their gear. Taking every last fish there is,
It is a big ocean, these operators can go elsewhere to fill their quotas,
would be hopeful to see enforcement of particular zones, designated for
commercial of sportfishing, very hard to maintain a sustainable fishery how
the situation is now managed.
Dorado remain the most common species being encountered by charter fleets,
the majority of the fish have been small to medium, 5 to 15 lb., though
there has been a fair share of larger specimens mixed in. Limits have been
the rule, remember to release as many females as possible, they have the
smaller rounded off forehead, the males have the squared off front.
Bottom action remained a productive option for early bird specials, as
these fish were only really striking on the yo-yo jigs early in the day.
The San Luis Bank was the spot for red snapper (huachinango), amberjack,
cabrilla and even a few yellowtail were rounding out this action. Of course
plenty of triggerfish for the asking, they hold in that shallower 30 to 100
ft. inshore zone.
Striped marlin and sailfish continue to be the more common billfish
encountered off of San Jose del Cabo grounds, we do expect to hear new
reports about more black and blues being hooked into. Recalling that during
this same period last year there was action on the Gordo Banks. More
tournament teams will now start to scout out and prefish the grounds,
preparing to gain an local edge for the upcoming high stake tournaments.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent
out approximately 36 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 4 striped marlin, 8 sailfish, 184 dorado, 12 yellowfin tuna, 8
cabrilla, 17 amberjack, 2 dogtooth snapper, 2 yellowtail, 28 huachinango,
18 white skipjack, 8 bonito and 6 hammerhead sharks.
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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