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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 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 Sep 22, 2025
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30 Oct 2006 - 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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October 29, 2006
Anglers –
Lots of activity now in Los Cabos, thousands of anglers traveling south now to get
in on the excitement of the world’s richest marlin tournament, the Bisbee’s Black
and Blue. Sportfishing operations, including both cruiser and panga fleets, have
been operating at capacity levels. The week started off with the formation of a late
season Hurricane named Paul, originally it developed in an area southwest of Cabo
San Lucas, but then changed course and headed in the direction of the Southern Baja
peninsula, gradually loosing strength and on Wednesday morning when it passed within
some 50 miles of Cabo it was a mere tropical depression. Paul’s main impact was
rainfall, anywhere from 1 to 4 inches of measurable rain fell in various areas,
ocean conditions were stormy and the Cabo marina was shut down for the days of
Tuesday and Wednesday and there was also no launching of panga fleets in any of the
locations out of San Jose del Cabo, this meant a lot of lost business since
fleets had full schedules of charters scheduled for those days. Fleet operators
were very busy trying to reschedule and accommodate clients the best they could. By
Thursday fleets were back in action and the Bisbee tournament was changed to a
two-day event instead of the normal three-day. Friday we experienced wind up to 18
miles an hour from the north, the first significant blow from that direction of the
season, this made for rough seas, but over the weekend conditions settled back down
and were ideal once again. Water temperatures were still a bit above average for
late October, ranging from 84 to 86 degrees.
Tournament time also means heavy pressure on the bait supplies and the local fishing
grounds. Despite the storm scattering schools of sardinas into new locations the
commercial pangueros were able to find sufficient supplies. Yellowfin tuna remained
the dominant catch for the charter fleet and most of the action continued to be off
of San Jose within one mile of shore from off the Estuary to La Laguna. Before the
storm, on Monday the bite was wide open for yellowfin tuna in the 20 to 25 pound
class, but since the storm the action has dropped off considerably, the size of the
tuna was also down to about an 10 to 15 pound average. The color of the water is a
little murky, but not bad, the main factor in the bite slowing down seems to be the
build up of a heavy concentration of boats, since this apparently has been the only
area that is producing any consistent action. Charter boats over the weekend reports
average catches of tuna down to 2 to 5 per boat.
Only a handful of dorado were found mixed in and most of them were smaller fish,
some larger bulls were reported further offshore and more so on the Pacific by boats
targeting billfish.
Local San Jose del Cabo pangueros reported that the yellowfin tuna were coming up
and biting early, but once the cruisers and yachts from Cabo San Lucas have been
arriving the action has quickly vanishing. Apparently these Cabo operators have a
different set of rules of courtesy while fishing. It is pretty much common sense
that if you see other boats with fish feeding in a chum line and hooking fish that
you do not motor right through the boiling fish, but that is not how many of these
cruiser skippers operate, they go right into the boiling fish and scatter the bite
for everybody. You would think that they would have the knowledge that it would be
more courteous to just go up current and start chumming themselves and drift through
the same area, apparently not, they have their own set of protocols.
Wahoo season continues to show no signs of coming to life and everyone is just
crossing their fingers that it will be late season for these elusive gamefish.
Other miscellaneous catches included a mix of pargo species, amberjack, sierra,
rainbow runners, sailfish, grouper, skipjack, pompano, triggerfish and cabrilla.
The combined panga fleet launching off of La Playita beach sent out approximately
154 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for a fish count of: 3 wahoo, 1
roosterfish, 2 striped marlin, 11 sailfish, 54 dorado, 860 yellowfin tuna, 225
skipjack, 24 pargo, 8 cabrilla, 4 grouper, 16 sierra, 14 rainbow runners, 7 pompano,
8 amberjack and 15 triggerfish.
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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