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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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| 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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10 Nov 2014 - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San José Del Cabo
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San José Del Cabo
Anglers –
November 2, 2014
We are now in the peak Fall Season, normally a very bustling period for the
Los Cabos area. This year the situation is much different, as many Resorts
are still in the rebuilding stage and combined with changing airline
schedules, has contributed to below normal capacity level crowds of
tourists, as try to find available flights and accommodations. By the
coming New Year we do expect to see many more resorts reopening their doors
to tourists. For the time being we are seeing more visitors arrive, just
not like we would normally expect to see.
The climate has been absolutely ideal, clear skies, slight chill early in
the morning, warming up quickly to 90 degrees later in the day. Only a
couple of days of north winds, mostly calm ocean conditions with minimal
swell activity for anglers. Water temperatures are still averaging in the
mid 80’s. Clear blue water is found close to shore now, most fishing
activity has been taking place within 2 to 8 miles from shore.
Sardinas became more scattered from where they had been school in the
Puerto Los Cabos Marina jetty area, heavy pressure from the Bisbee
tournament seems to hurt local bait supplies, teams pay big money to local
pangeros to fill large ice chests with bait for chumming, this is a marlin
tournament, why are so many sardinas needed, apparently to chum up more
skipjack or smaller yellowfin to be used as baitfish for the billfish, it
just seems there should be some control on this, sustainable bait
populations are very fragile these days. Surely the upcoming WON Tuna
Jackpot will put even more negative pressure on this local bait resource.
Dorado became more scarce this past week, we heard of more dorado being
found on the Pacific fishing grounds, compared to in the direction of San
Jose del Cabo. Wahoo were consistently being found in schools on the normal
grounds north of Punta Gorda. Anglers were finding many opportunities at
hooking into these speedsters, having five, six or seven strikes per
morning was not uncommon. Strikes are coming on trolled Rapalas, skirted
lead heads and slow trolling trap-hooked chihuil.Most of the wahoo being
accounted for weighed in the 15 to 30 lb. class, though there were some
fish up to 45 lb. landed.
Yellowfin tuna were a main targeted species on the La Fortuna to Iman
Banks, the tuna schooling here were striking on sardinas, these fish were
mixed with a variety of aggressive skipjack, weighing to 20 pounds, average
catches ranged from 1 to 5 yellwofin per charter, many more skipjack than
tuna were being hooked into. The chance of hooking into the larger cows
sized yellowfin tuna still was concentrated around the Gordo Banks,
yellowfin in the 50 to 300 pounds are holding on these grounds, though
getting them to bite has been another story, everyday there are reports of
maybe one or two nice fish being hooked into. This past week we weighed one
tuna of 204 pounds in, one fish weighing close to 300 lb. was taken last
Sunday, other large fish were lost and yellowfin tuna of 80 to 100 lb. were
reported by anglers that were on scouting trips for next week’s Tuna
Jackpot, surely this year’s event will have some very stiff competition.
Billfish action was spread out, though a few more blacks and blues were
hooked in this past week, weighing up to 300 pounds plus. It is the time of
year where an offshore grand slam could happen, there are sailfish,
striped, blue and black marlin now in local waters. Not much found off the
bottom recently, most anglers are now targeting surface species.
Local La Playita panga fleet’s are back operating out of the panga basin of
Puerto Local Cabo Marina, this particular area sustained heavy disastrous
damage from Hurricane Odile. Work conditions continue to prove extremely
challenging. Rebuilding progress for this facility is now frustratingly at
a standstill, not even simple conveniences such as fresh running water,
bathroom facilities, suitable parking, electricity for any form of
lighting, or even an accessible boat ramp for making needed maintenance
schedules, the only usable marina ramp now has a chain in place and fleet
owners are required to pay high fees for the privilege of using it, the
list could go on. These are simple conveniences which could all be
addressed in timely fasion, though Marina Management has other priorities,
no effort or expense has gone towards helping this panga area. Locals seem
to be on their own in tackling the rebuilding undertaking. Waiting for
Governmental help, funding for the necessary specialized equipment, appears
to be on a long road ahead.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 70 charters for the week, with anglers
reporting a fish count of: 4 sailfish, 2 blue marlin, 3 black marlin, 3
striped marlin, 78 wahoo, 82 yellowfin tuna, 9 dorado, 10 rainbow runners,
24 bonito, 320 skipjack, 14 cabrilla, 8 barred pargo and 20 triggerfish.
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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