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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 Apr 29, 2024
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6 Dec 2004 - More yellowfin tuna action in Venice Louisiana
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Category: Louisiana
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Author Name: Capt. Scott Avanzino
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Spent all last week in Venice doing year end boat
and equipment maintenance..waited until Friday for
the weather to break and after re-launching the
boat Thursday afternoon I was ready to trade a
greasy wrench for a baited pole.. It's always tough
to come off a 7 day weather layover, but we started
in areas we had caught fish the week before..Had
Jeff Milton and the Sylvania crew looking for
tuna..spent the majority of the day looking for
bait netting 2 mullet and 4 hardtails..didn't
matter..for the 5 hours we spent waiting for the
bite all we had was one small yellowfin and one
blackfin to show..missed one big strike around 3pm
and reluctantly headed north in search of
jacks..and fortunately they were hungry..we found
them at the 7 mile rigs about 150 yards off the
platform on the NE corner of 49..they hit
everything we threw at them and in 45 minutes we
had caught 7 fish without losing one..diamond jigs,
dead mullet and tuna bellies..didnt matter..I got
back to the cleaning table and talked to a captain
friend of mine who was down on himself for only
producing one nice yellowfin, 2 stout grouper and a
couple jacks..though he gave it his best effort I
think he allowed the unrealistic expectations of
his customers to get him down..some times the fish
bite like mad and some days there is nothing you
can do to find a single strike and some days,
despite all preparation things still go
wrong..given the weather and the fact that it was a
long time since anyone had fished I think both of
us had a sucessful day..Saturday the bite was wide
open for us and just about everything went wrong..I
headed out with good friend Rick Blount his
daughter Casey and Ryan and Bill Flanagan on Bill's
37 Bertram for our annual year end fishing trip..we
couldn't make up our minds what we wanted to fish
for so we packed a little of everything..someone
had stolen the large fish box so all we had was a
deck box with 120 pounds of ice..could only find 7
mullet but since we only needed 4 fish to make the
day we ventured off to new territory with medium
confidence..first stop yeilded a big zero..a single
barracuda bite left us 5 good baits and one near
dead one..upon stop 2 we had a double on
deployment..the first fish broke off on the run and
the second at the leader after a 40 minute
fight..upon tying up a new leader I found that the
gap between the shank of the hooks and loop of the
eye was sufficient enough to allow for a plier like
effect if more than 20 pounds was applied to the 90
pound leader..even with a power snell the line
would break against the sharp edge of the hook..a
closer inspection of the pack revealed a bad
batch..switched over to J-hooks while Doc searched
his supply for better hooks and had 2 more
misses..and when last bait flew off the hook upon
deployment, things started to look pretty grim..put
out a spread of 2 Braid baits short on 50 pound
chair tackle and two skirted ballyhoo with birds
long on each of the riggers on 30 pound tackle..at
this point one fish would have made the trip but
instead we were blessed with old time tuna
action..hadn't seen a bite like this on trolling
biats for many years..we made 6 passes in the next
4 hours hooking a fish on every pass..ended up with
3 very nice yellowfin from 90-150 pounds..the first
fish in the box was a nice 110 pounder on a braid
plug, fish number 2 was the samllest fish of the
day, again on a plug..pulled a hook on 30 pound
tackle on pass number 3 and broke off the next 2
fish on the 30's on the long baits..not sure if
Bill will bring them on the next tuna outing but I
think the fish did us a favor..the final fish hit
at 3:00pm on the short plug and ripped half the
spool on the first run..14 year old Casey settled
into the chair while dad helped her crank - neither
of them knew what they were getting into and from
my view from the helm, it looked like alot of
forced family fun..2 hours later we sunk the gaff
into a 150# class fish that would test our
collective engineering abilities in order to cool
him and his two friends in an undersized cooler
with 2 1/2 bags of ice..bottom line is we got the
job done and everyone who got to fight a fish is
sore today..I got to drive so next time I may get a
turn on the rod..so long as the wrench's collect
rust for the next few months I wont care..hope to
get back out this week if weather allows..the way
the bite has been, I doubt very seriously if we'll
find them in the same place..hadn't worked for us
this fall..last stretch of trips we ran in late
November we found our fish at Moxie and in open
water 2 miles south of Moxie, but not this
week..not sure where we'll start looking next
trip.... Paradise Outfitters - 985-845-8006
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