| 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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| 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 23, 2018; 07:00AM
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Category: Guide Services
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Name for Contacts: Quepos Fishing Charters
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Phone: 1-800-388-9957
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City: Quepos
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Country: Costa Rica
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Quepos Fishing Charters is located
in the Quepos, Costa Rica and we
offer Full Day and 3/4 Day trips.
We’re ready to give you the fishing
experience of a lifetime!
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2010 Kids Only Fish Photo Contest
Kids 12 and under only contest
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Cody Schlampp28' LongNorthern Pike |
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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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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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Aug 27, 2012; 12:04PM - 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
Aug 19 - 26, 2012
WEATHER: I cannot believe it! After almost three years of looking out on a dry and dusty brown desert I can finally see green everywhere! The almost 10 inches of rain we received recently has resulted in an almost garden appearance if you decide to wander out into the desert, everything is budding out and in a few more days we should start to see plenty of flowers as well. This time of year is normally when we get our rains, and after the recent delivery we have been expecting more almost constantly as the dark clouds continues to move in every few days. At least the rain is getting dumped up in the mountains, but there is a possibility of more coming our way in the next month and a half. For this week out highs have been in the low 90's and the lows in the low to mid 80's with the humidity between 72 and 84 percent, and mostly cloudy skies.
WATER: Surface conditions have been great with swells at 2-5 feet on the Pacific side and 1-3 feet on the Cortez side of the Cape. On the Pacific side the water temperatures have been running between 81 and 84 degrees, on the Cortez side it has been pretty evenly 84 degrees this week. A lot of this has to do with the cloud cover we are experiencing, the water a few weeks ago was several degrees warmer across the board. One nice thin the rain did for us was wash quite a bit of debris out of the arroyos and into the ocean, there has been decent amounts of floating debris to work for the past week, but that has also meant keeping a sharp eye out for debris large enough to damage the props or the hull. Sometimes these objects are mostly submerged, so if you do spot them the likelihood of them holding bait is very good.
BAIT: Caballito and Mullet were available at the normal $3 per bait and you could get them if you were out early, many boats were unable to get bait and had to settle for frozen horse ballyhoo at $3 each. I heard reports that there were a few Sardianas available in the San Jose area, but you had to know someone and pay well for them.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Not surprisingly the numbers of Sailfish that have been caught this past week were much higher than normal, perhaps due to the continuing warm water and strong current flow. When the water is this temperature the numbers of Striped Marlin that we see drop off quite a bit from what we see when the water is in the mid 70's, but there are always a few around. This week they were a bit scarce, but there were still some found. Blue and Black Marlin really like this temperature so we have been seeing quite a few Blue Marlin appearing in the lure spreads, especially when working the schools of football size Yellowfin Tuna. There has been fairly good success rates on these fish, with most of them under 300 pounds and being released (thank goodness!). Good success rates don't necessarily mean everyone is hooking up, just that the boats that are getting hooked up are not losing so many. Even with the water this warm and the large numbers of Skipjack and Bonito we are seeing, I have heard of very few Black Marlin being caught. This is a bit unusual since the fishing grounds have been packed with the perfect baits.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Fish of the week without a doubt as almost every boat that went out came in with near limits of Yellowfin. All the fish were found associated with Porpoise and there were actually a few schools found. Like I said, most of the fish were footballs between 8 and 20 pounds but there were a few larger fish caught as well. One boat came in last Sunday afternoon with a nice Tuna that weighed in at 205 pounds, way to go Mike! A few schooling fish have been caught as well, these are fish in the 30 to 70 pound class, but the numbers of them have been small. Speaking of small, most of the schooling fish were caught on that time honored Football Tuna lure, the three inch pink hootchie trolled about 50 to 80 feet behind the boat and worked steadily with a jerking motion. I was out last Sunday and every Tuna we caught was loaded with small squid between three and five inches long. The Tuna have been scattered on both sides of the Ca, from the lighthouse on the Pacific side to the area offshore of El Tule on the Cortez side. It looked like perfect water around the San Jaime Bank last weekend and we worked it hard, but saw nothing out there until we came back to the starting area about five miles off of the lighthouse.
DORADO: I really expected the debris in the water to attract and concentrate the Dorado this past week and was surprised when the reports came in that these great fighting and eating fish were scarce. A number of smaller fish to 10 pounds were being found inshore, but not in any concentration or numbers, and there were a few larger fish being found offshore. When boats were finding floating debris and pulled up to it, only a few pieces held Dorado, and not in any great numbers. I am not sure of the reason for this, it runs completely counter to what is normal and expected this time of year.
INSHORE: Roosterfish numbers were way down this past week due to the near-shore dirty water after the passing of the rain, but that was expected. Strong currents have effected the bottom fishing as well so the numbers of Grouper and Snapper as well as Amberjack were also off. Most of the Pangas have been going a bit offshore looking for the football Tuna and have been doing well on them.
FISH RECIPE: Check the blog for this weeks recipe!
NOTES: Beach time! Tawny just came up and put her head on my lap and let me know that I am taking too long, she really needs to get into the water and swim for a while. It looks as if the fishing is picking up a bit, as soon as the currents slow it should get even better. The desert is green and starting to bloom, the water is clean again as are the streets. This weeks report was written to the music of Hayes Carll on his album “Little Rock”. For those of you who like country, check him out! Until next week, tight lines!
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
August 26, 2012
Anglers –
What a difference some much needed rainfall can make, in a matter of days
the landscape in Southern Baja has blossomed into a lush green tropical
desert oasis. Presently there are no new named storm systems in the Eastern
Pacific, the coming weeks is when historically there has been the highest
percentage of hurricane activity. This entire week there have been
threatening clouds and isolated rain squalls offshore and to the north of
the International airport, common pattern for late August. Humidity is high
with all of the moisture in the area, I guess we can say the drought is
over for now, despite still needing more rain, the amount of rain that fell
last week was significant and a great relief for the entire region.
Ocean swells have settled, there are now comfortable sea conditions for
anglers, as there are no storms presently kicking up high winds. Water
clarity is clean throughout, at least from 5 miles offshore and out.
Currents have remained particular strong, making any bottom fishing
particularly challenging, ocean temperatures ranged from 82 to 85 degrees.
Quite a bit of floating debris encountered in recent days, due to last
week’s flooding.
The Puerto Los Cabos Marina was holing schooling caballito, jurelito and
moonfish, all being used for bait, while there were also some sardinas
beginning to return to the jetty entrance area, still limited for these
smaller baits, larger schools of these preferred baitfish are now found
along the beaches north of Vinorama. Offshore fishing grounds are
attracting sizable schools of skipacjk, all sizes, from tiny, smaller than
mackerel size on up to fifteen pound bruisers. We are seeing abundant food
supply on the local grounds, despite the more than favorable all around
conditions the local fishing action remains substantial off as compared to
typical summertime consistent fish counts. Global weather patterns is
making it harder to predict what is going on, we are seeing a possible el
Nino condition now develop off of Southern California, last time that
really happened, I remember that we had an incredible winter bite on
species such as sailfish and wahoo.
Even though we normally would expect to see more productive daily fishing
action on larger sized catches, we are seeing the bite show signs of
improvement, just that it has not been consistent from day to day. Some
anglers were more fortunate, encountered floating debris that held larger
dorado to 30 pounds of more, while the majority of the other boats are
finding small sized dorado, particularly closer to shore, offshore there
has been a better chance at finding a larger sized bull. Most of the
yellowfin tuna recently were associated with porpoise activity, weighing 10
to 30 pounds, though there were some larger tuna reported on the Pacific
side of CSL, one 205 lb. yellowfin was landed last Sunday by Renegade Mike.
No tuna have been reported from the Gordo Banks and only a handful of
smaller yellowfin have been accounted for on the grounds from Iman to San
Luis Banks. More tuna seem to be found south towards Cabo San Lucas at this
time, a lot can happen from day to day during the late summer, both the
weather and fishing conditions become even harder than normal to predict.
Billfish action produced striped marlin, blues and sailfish, quite a few
sails now moving in with the warmer currents and plentiful food supply. A
few wahoo also being reported, lure strikes while trolling on the familiar
tuna, dorado, billfish grounds. Using small to medium sized hoochie type or
feather lures have been working well.
Commercial pangeros are continuing to produce quality red snapper, grouper,
triggerfish and even an odd yellowtail, they are fighting strong currents
and departing the docks in the predawn hours.
The recent rain resulted in breaking the San Jose Estuary open to the
ocean, this got the snook to wake up and a handful of these prized fish to
over 30 pounds were caught by a group of die hard locals who work this area
when the favorable periods arrive, it was a higher tide bite, near noon,
when the snook decided to feed, one person caught three himself in a short
period of time, while his father landed a 30 pounder.
The combined panga fleet out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent
out approximately 78 charters for the week, with anglers reporting a fish
count of: 2 wahoo, 8 sailfish, 236 dorado, 58 yellowfin, 2 yellowtail, 8
amberjack, 7 grouper, 17 cabrilla, 76 huachinango (red snapper), 38 pargo
and 14 bonito.
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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