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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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| 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 21, 2025
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25 Dec 2011 - Gordo Banks Pangas San Jose del Cabo Dec 25, 2011
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric Bricston
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Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
December 25, 2011
Christmas time is here, everyone is now busy preparing for family events. Families
have been arriving in Los Cabos to enjoy the holiday season, escaping the cold
temperatures to the north. With winter time now having officially started local
weather has also cooled off, though the highs are still pleasantly in the 70s, but
with early morning lows down into the 50s, vacationers do need to remember to dress
accordingly.
Ocean conditions changed rapidly this week, as currents moved in from the north and
dropped water temperatures from 70/76 degrees down to 69/72 degrees. Cooling water
is usually associated with greener off colored currents, and this has been the
situation at this time, most areas off of San Jose del Cabo are now off colored,
towards Cabo San Lucas there has been cleaner blue water, but this has not meant
that this has been where the best action for anglers has been found.
With the rapidly changing conditions the fishing action has become more scattered as
well. Earlier in the week there was some great striped marlin action found off of
San Jose del Cabo, this is where schools of baitfish such as mackerel, sardinetas,
chihuil and skipjack were congregated, attracting both billfish and dorado within
several miles of shore. Fleets from all directions were concentrated on this spot,
marlin were hooked while soaking baits down deep, trolling on the surface, as well
as casting into feeding frenzies on the surface, which often occurred mid day and
into the afternoon. As the greener cooler currents swept in, this bite slowed way
down accordingly. The northern winds also kicked up, which is usually the pattern at
this time of year, two or three days of wind, then a couple of days of calmer
conditions, before repeating the same cycle.
On the Gordo Banks anglers found more skipjack than anything else, also plenty of
problems with hungry sea lions, no yellowfin tuna to talk about this week, as dorado
and striped marlin were the main surface species now being encountered. Not much in
the way of bottom action, but we do expect to start scouting out more of the
structure prospects in the coming weeks for some fire cracker sized yellowtail,
amberjack and snapper. Along the shoreline anglers were now finding sierra and
roosterfish, but this action varied from day to day, and depended on the
availability of live sardinas. Dorado were also found at times right in the surf
zone, there were even a reports of dorado up to 15 lbs. being landed by surf anglers
near Punta Gorda, this is the time when dorado can be found closer to shore, where
more baitfish are concentrated. Most of the roosterfish now being hooked into are
juvenile sized, with a handful of them reaching up to 15 pounds.
A handful of wahoo were taken this past week, but most of these fish were more the
sized of sierra, strange to see such smaller sized ‘hoo, wonder where their parents
are? Probably heading south by now.
We are now transitioning into winter time type fishing action, typically we find
quite a wide variety of species, maybe not as large as in the warmer months, but
there can be great light tackle sport and most of the fish are of the good eating
variety. We will anticipate improved inshore action, the time that more numbers of
yellowtail should move in with the cooler currents and striped marlin should
continue to dominate offshore.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent
out approximately 65 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count
of: 27 striped marlin, 4 sailfish, 172 dorado, 9 wahoo, 12 pargo, 15 bonito, 250
black skipjack, 34 roosterfish and 18 sierra.
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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