| 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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| Fish Facts |
| 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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Apr 27, 2007; 09:37PM
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Category: Sportfishing Charters
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Name for Contacts: Tom Welply
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Phone: 361-790-5944
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City: Rockport
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State: Texas
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Country: usa
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Fishing Charters and guide services offered by Affordable Fisherman Charters.361-790-5944
www.fishrockporta.com
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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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Jan 5, 2004; 10:17PM - Spanish Mackerel Tricks
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Category: Fishing tips and tricks
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Author Name: Tony
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
I love fishing for Spanish mackerel, so I do it often. When I shove off to go fishing, I often stumble upon a very large school of mackerel, but sometimes they all don't want to feed and reject anything you throw at them. When this happenes, a good trick to get them to bite is to get them exited so they just want to catch what the think is a little fish just for the fun of it. To do this you would want to swich immediately to anywhere from a 1/4oz to a 1/2oz kastmaser-(like a spoon but a lot better). I make a long cast to where the fish are and as soon as that lure hits the water I begin to reel in just fast enough to get the kastmaser poping out of the water kinda like a fleeing baitfish. After it jumps out of the water a couple times keep it fast just below the surface. Do this at least 4 times during your retrieve and pretty soon you will have dozens of mackerel chasing your lure just for the sport of it until the lure bites back and then you get to have all the fun. |
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Tip&Trick Description 2:
When you get those swarms of mackerel chasing the your line, sometimes your lure will come to the boat a little early and the fish will ignore the katmaster and just swim away. To prevent this you want to go to the opposite end of the boat, make your cast, and then maneuver the lure so it will swim parallel to the boat, instead of directly at it, taking the mackerel with it. You will be catching mackerel right at the side of the boat. |
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Tip&Trick Description 3:
These techniques have worked for me many times and gotten me coolers full of fish and I hope they work for you, too. Good fishing till next time. |
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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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Jul 31, 2006; 12:13PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
July 24-30, 2006
WEATHER: Well, Tropical Storm Emilia did have an effect on us since she passed just 70 miles to the west on her way up the Pacific coast. She brought some large swells with her and some much needed rain. Unfortunately the swells and wind caused the Port Captain to close the port on Tuesday and it did not re-open until after 9 in the morning on Wednesday, by then a lot of the boats had already cancelled their trips. Monday was the big surprise though as the morning started out nice, and everyone knew that there was a storm in the area. Around 10 in the morning the clouds started moving faster and the wind picked up, by noon we had 35-knot winds with a lot of rain blowing around. She lowered the air temperatures but after she passed we went right back to hot and humid. Now at the end of the week we are seeing daytime temperatures in the high 90’s and humidity at 65% and better. Our nighttime lows have been in the low 80’s but with a bit of a breeze that makes it bearable.
WATER: Storm Swells, a major noun this week as Emilia kicked the waters up and brought big seas along with rain to our coastal areas. Late in the week the effects of Emilia could still be seen with the erosion of a lot of the beaches, the off-colored water close to the beach and some scattered debris washed out form the arroyos. Water temperatures at the end of the week had changed from the beginning, as there was a hot spot off of the Gorda banks and a cold spot just around the arch on the Pacific side. The Gorda Banks had water temperatures of 88 degrees, the tail end of a band of warm water running 10 miles offshore down around the East Cape. Just off the lighthouse we had an upwelling of deep, cold water out to a distance of about 8 miles with the coldest areas only showing 74 degrees and green. Out farther on the Pacific the San Jaime and the Golden Gate banks are showing temperatures of 81-83 degrees and with a bit bluer water. At the end of the week the swells from Tropical Storm Emilia had died down and the water was almost like a lake out there.
BAIT: There were some Sardinas available up to the north around the Palmilla area at $20 a scoop and locally there were Caballito and Mullet available every day at the normal $2 per bait. A few trips of the Francesca (the big net boat) resulted in Mackerel being available for about three days. The live bait remained at an average of $2 per bait.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Blue Marlin, Black Marlin, Striped Marlin and a few Sailfish, what more could you want? There are almost as many Blue Marlin being found as Striped Marlin, and there have been some big ones hooked up. It has been almost all lure action as the live baiters are waiting for tournament time before devoting an entire day to soaking a bug Tuna for bait. There have been a few scattered Black Marlin found as well as a few Sailfish. Most of the Black Marlin have been found within the 100 fathom line as expected, most of the larger Blue Marlin have been found off of the ridge and Banks on the Pacific side and around the 1,000 fathom line around the Cape. With the football and slightly larger Yellowfin Tuna showing up, the big girls are starting to get hungry!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin were the fish of the week this past week. There were no big fish reported that I heard of but there were plenty of fish ranging in size from 8 pounds to 30 pounds with the average somewhere around 20 pounds. Most boats were able to return to port with limits if the angers were willing to stay out and fish, those boats that were not able to get into the Tuna either left late or made the wrong guess about where the fish were (or were just going for a boat ride to begin with!). Most of the fish were found with the Porpoise and the first boats to the fish always did better than the later boats. A good catch was 10 fish of 15-25 pounds along with a shot at a Marlin. The best areas seemed to be directly south along the warm water-cold water boundary formed by the upwelling.
DORADO: There were a lot of Dorado to be found close to shore on both the Pacific and the Cortez side of the Cape. Most of the fish were small at 8-10 pounds but there were the larger groups arriving occasionally, and enough of them to make it interesting. Finding the first fish was the key to Dorado as there was almost always some friend swimming around in the same area. Artificial lures connected up the first fish but live bait and cut bait got most of the fish into the boats.
WAHOO: What Hoo?
INSHORE: The upwelling of cold water along the Pacific side of the Cape really put the inshore fishing off and the few boats that did try and target the traditional species such as Roosterfish and Trevally had a much better time of it when they concentrated on the Cortez side of the Cape. Most of the Pangas were going offshore to try for the Yellow Fin Tuna.
NOTES: The fishing continues to improve on a daily basis. Hopefully the passing of Emilia will break loose some kelp fronds from up north and give us some structure to work. Meanwhile, the East Cape Bisbee tournament will be taking place this coming week. I have a couple of good buddies fishing in it and my fingers are crossed for them. Unfortunately I am not fishing it, I thought that I was going to be fishing all the tournaments this year but things just did not work out that way, sigh. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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