| 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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Sep 14, 2008; 01:01PM
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Category: Guide Services
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Name for Contacts: Robert Hudson
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Phone: 760-209-3260
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City: June Lake
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State: California
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Country: USA
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I am the owner of Sierra Fly Guide in June Lake, Ca. and would like to add a link to my web site, www.sierraflyguide.net or an ad for it. Maybe you could add a catagory for guides or fly fishing? Contact me and let me now what you need.
Thanks
Robert
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Aug 5, 2003; 11:53AM - Muddy Water Baits
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Category: Freshwater Bass Fishing Tips
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Author Name: Steve vonBrandt/S&K Guide Service
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
Muddy Water Baits
By Steve VonBrandt
Nothing ruins the occasional fishing trip more than driving a long distance to your favorite spot, only to find out it’s been raining for the last few weeks and the water is the color of Chocolate milk! Many years ago, I was like most weekend anglers, and would immediately try to find another lake or river that might be a little more clear, or just turn around and go home. But I found over the last 20 years, that it isn’t necessary to give up so quickly on muddy water.
There are many times when a creek arm, or a certain portion of the lake or river isn’t as muddy, or there is a transition zone where it goes from muddy to stained, which can be a good area, but, even if there is no clearer water, there are many things you can do. Most gamefish react the same way to muddy water, they go shallow and they move closer to structure. This could mean a lot of different types of structure, such as brushpiles, laydowns, rocks, stump fields, pads on shallow flats, anything! When the bas are holding tight to cover, because of low visibility, the lure presentations sometimes need to be precise, such as when flipping a log or tree roots with a jig. Bellow are the 6 basic choices you should have rigged for fishing muddy waters.
Plastic Worms: I know this sounds like a strange choice, but a lot of times when bass are holding real tight to cover, a larger, bulkier worm, with some rattle inserted, possibly with a paddle tail, worked real close in the cover, can work well. I used a black or a black/red combination in muddy water. I also use the new Big 7 inch Senko that is out now, and drop it right into heavier cover. I have been using the new Cut-Tail worm for this also.
Vibrating Rattlers: These baits such as the Bill Lewis Rat-L-Trap, Cotton Bordell, Diamond Shad, or the Rattlin’ Rapalas, are excellent choices for probing different depths of muddy water, and where muddy changes to stained. The noise and vibrations of these baits, along with a realistic shad shape, make these great baits and stained to muddy water.
Crankbaits: I use a lot of the real fat bodied crankbaits in muddy water. I choose different baits with a wide wobble, and sometimes rattles. I usually stay with darker colors with red in muddy water. These colors with a wide wobble, are easier for bass to find.
Spinnerbaits: The bass will be using their lateral line more in the muddy water, so a spinnerbait with a heavy pulse such as a Terminator night bait, with a black skirt, and Colorado blade, is a perfect choice. You could even add rattles to this bait, which I have had success with in the muddy rivers and lakes in the Northeast. I always use a single Colorado blade on the spinner baits in muddy water, but in stained, or warmer stained water, I do go to an Oklahoma Blade sometimes with good results.
Topwaters: These are my favorite baits to use in muddy water. There are so many baits that shallow, muddy water bass will hit! The buzzbait worked slowly around cover will draw tremendous strikes. The walking type baits, such as a Zara Spook, and Fenwick walking baits, Jitterbugs, Crazy Crawlers, and a variety of other topwaters, including poppers with rattles, are excellent and exciting choices for muddy water bass. The bass will all be in water that is 1-4 feet deep, eliminating a lot of the water, making them easier to catch!
Jigs: Jigs in Brown/Black or Blue/Black with a Zoom or uncle Josh trailer, with some rattles, are an excellent choice to flip into laydowns, and shallow stump fields, and of course on docks. Make repeated casts to give them a good look and provoke them.
If you stick with these baits and methods the next time you run into muddy water, you will never be afraid to see it again. It will become a friend, as it has become to me.
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May 13, 2019; 08:07PM - OCEAN-TAMER Marine Grade Bean Bags
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City: Palmetto
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Feb 19, 2007; 10:52AM - 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
February 12-18, 2007
WEATHER: It was partly cloudy all week and we actually had just a bit of what some people might call rain on Saturday afternoon. If you are from the Pacific Northwest you would call it slight precipitation, but it was enough to spot windshields and get the docks wet. Our daytime highs were in the low 80’s and the nighttime lows in the 60-degree range.
WATER: The cloud cover did not allow any decent water temperature images this week but at the end of the week the water was calm everywhere. At the beginning of the week the winds were blowing heavily from either the northwest or the southeast and you could always get away from the choppy conditions. On the Pacific side there were large swells early in the week but they had disappeared by the weekend. Water temperatures appeared to be much cooler from the beach to 15 miles out on the Pacific side with 64 degrees seen in the middle of the week in this area. Farther offshore the water warmed up to 74 degrees for a day or so and this was the warm water area we had been watching last report. It continued to advance toward us but as it swung past the Cape it cooled to 72 degrees and remained offshore. At 30 miles the water warmed to 74 degrees, and that was directly south of us. On the Cortez side of the Cape the water had temperatures around 70 degrees.
BAIT: Just like last week, there were Mackerel at $2 per bait and there were occasional Sardinas available up at San Jose if you were there early and they were the normal $20 per scoop. There were a few Caballito in with the mackerel but there were no large numbers of them.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Billfish action this week moved to the Cortez side of the Cape as is normal this time of year. With the water a little bit better color than on the Pacific side the fish seemed to be holding in the area bounded by the 95 spot, the 1150 and San Jose. Most of the fleet boats worked this area all week with mixed results. At least 40-50 boats were getting hit on trolled lures and occasionally the feeders would pop up and a few lucky boats were able to get in on the action. There appeared to be quite a few squid still in the area and as a result the lure strikes were still not very aggressive, a lot of the fish were coming unbuttoned. Tossing live baits at feeders resulted in better hook-up ratios and a few tailing fish were found as well.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: I only heard of three areas this week that held Yellowfin Tuna. One of them was the area of the San Jaime Banks early in the week. A few brave boats were able to punch through the 25-mile wide area of nasty water and get to the warmer, calmer water in that area and they found plenty of school Tuna in the area. Best results were had on cedar plugs and since there were only a few boats working them the fish stayed up and the boats did well. A friend of mine found Porpoise off of the Lighthouse ledge early in the week and managed to load up on football fish using hootchies. At the end of the week the warmer water 30 miles to the south produced Yellowfin in the 15-20 pound range for boats that got to them early.
DORADO: Dorado continued to decline in numbers for almost everyone. There is always a lucky boat or two that manages to get onto a decent bite around floating debris and that happened to a couple of boats this week, but on the average it looked as if there were about two Dorado for every three boats. The action (what there was of it) was on the Cortez side of the Cape out around the 1150
WAHOO: Once again none were caught this week that I am aware of although I am sure there were a few. The new moon on the 17th may have had something to do with this.
INSHORE: The Sierra bit started to sizzle this week with a lot of the Pangas coming in with limits of five fish each (or in some cases, more) for their anglers. Along with the Sierra came a mixed bag of inshore species including an occasional small Roosterfish. A few amberjack mad a showing as well and a decent Pargo bite was had in the rocks close to home. Yellowtail finally made a decent showing; all it took was for the water temperature to get right. Catches of 2-10 fish in the 8-25 pound class were made on jigs worked yo-yo fashion and live bait dropped down to 50 or 60 feet. The rocky points produced best on these fish for boats working water between 100-200 feet deep.
NOTES: Last week the Whales were everywhere, this week they seemed to have almost disappeared. Not really, as there are still plenty of them to be found, but the heavy concentration we saw last week seemed to have moved on up the Pacific side heading north. I have five days of fishing this coming week so hopefully I will be able to provide some more, good, updated information in the next report. Until then, listen to some classical guitar on the CD “Celebration”, a 2000 release by Kimberly Productions with Miguel De Hoyos on the guitar. Until next week, tight lines!
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