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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 21, 2025
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9 Apr 2013 - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo April 7, 2013
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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
April 7, 2013
Anglers –
Spring vacation is now winding down to the final days, large crowds of
tourists have been arriving in Los Cabos, many college students on break
and many families traveling together. They have all been enjoying the
exceptional weather conditions, as winds have resided, sunny days have been
warming into the upper 70s, perfect climate to get outside and enjoy all of
the available activities. Beaches have been busy with crowds of vacationers
taking advantage of the miles of pristine beaches that abound in this
tropical desert paradise.
More anglers were in town this past week, appreciating the improved
offshore conditions, calm seas for the most part, with sportfishing fleets
concentrating on the grounds straight outside of Cabo San Lucas and north
in the direction of the Sea of Cortez. Water temperatures as cool as 65
degrees were reported outside of Todo Santos on the Pacific and outside of
the Gordo Banks there were readings of 75 degree water, most of the region
is averaging in the 70 to 73 degree range. Currents have been moving
swiftly, cooling off and then warming back up just as quickly, lots can
happen from day to day during the spring season. Baitfish schools are also
moving according to their preferences, this in turn have the gamefish
scattered and following their food source.
This week there were schools of skipjack, mackerel and sardinetas
encountered sporadically on the fishing grounds, also early in the week
there were pelagic red crabs found drifting to the surface in a masses
around the Gordo Banks, this natural occurrence lasted for a couple of days
and anglers, both commercial and recreational, were catching good numbers
of the true Pacific red snapper using these small crabs for bait, locally
known as huachinango, this was the first significant bite on these prized
table fare species for the season, encouraging to see these quality fish in
the area. These fish normally range 6 to 12 pounds and are very fun sport
on light to medium weight tackle and of course produce very fine eating
fillets.
Dorado numbers were down this recent period as well, only a handful of
these fish are being encountered, some on the offshore billfish grounds and
others were found near the shore, where they were attracted by baitfish
activity, sizes ranging up to 25 pounds. Same deal for yellowfin tuna, not
many were found this past week, many reports of large pods of porpoise
being found, but more often than not these was no tuna action was found
associated with them. The main attraction offshore has now been for striped
marlin, good concentrations of these billfish are now scattered on the
fishing grounds off of San José del Cabo and north towards Los Frailes,
many charters are accounting for multiple catch and release days. These
fish were encountered in feeding frenzies at times, other times they came
up as blind strikes on trolled lures, readily taking dropped back baits, it
is shaping up now for some wide open marlin action in this same region for
the next several months, as this is typically peak season for the striped
marlin.
Yellowtail action tapered off, only scattered fish being found on the
various rock piles, these jacks were not being found on the surface like
during the previous week. Mixed in were some nice amberjack, a few cabrilla
and various pargo species. Along the shore there were sierra and this week
we saw more numbers of juvenile roosterfish moving in along the beach
stretches. Live sardinas became harder to obtain in recent days, as these
baitfish are now schooling off the beaches far north of Punta Gorda and
this has not been practical for the commercial fleet to travel these
distances. We do hope that these baitfish move back within normal range.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 88 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 2 sailfish,
3 wahoo, 46 striped marlin, 7 yellowfin tuna, 43 dorado, 22 amberjack, 18
yellowtail,
55 sierra, 225 huachinango, 12 cabrilla, 115 roosterfish and 6 mako shark.
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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