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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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| 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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Dec 15, 2006; 01:23PM - Mosquito Lagoon Florida Fly Fishing Report
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt. Chris Myers
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Poor weather has limited my fishing the past two weeks but when I have been able to get on the water, the fishing has been excellent. The water has continued to drop in the Mosquito Lagoon but has been very clean.
Last week, Mark L. from Massachusetts, joined me for a half day of fly fishing the Mosquito Lagoon. The weather was near perfect with the exception of a few clouds. Temperatures were in the mid 70's and the winds were light. We found several schools of redfish on a shallow grass flat. Mark, who is used to tossing his fly into a feeding frenzy of northeast stripers and bluefish, was amazed at how spooky our shallow water redfish can be. He also found the small strike zone of the fish to be equally amazing. After a few warm up shots, Mark was able to land his first Florida redfish on an olive and gold #4 bendback pattern. Unfortunately, he had to leave just as thing were heating up and we left the fish tailing.
The next day, Capt. Tom Van Horn brought his flyrod and we returned to see if the tails were still there. We found a couple schools which had over one hundred fish and we each landed a few before our day was rudely interrupted by the arrival of a cold front. The twenty knot winds were not conducive to fly fishing.
Between bad weather and fishing seminars, I did not return to the water until Tuesday of this week. Had I known the wind was going to be howling all day and the cloud cover so heavy, I probably would have stayed home. All was not lost, though, as I was able to catch three reds on a chartreuse and white bendback fly before I got tired of fighting the wind. I changed to a DOA CAL tail and finished the day with six more redfish.
Wednesday, the clouds were even thicker making visibility poor but there was no wind. Luckily for me, the reds helped direct me in by waving me over with their tails. What's better than seeing a redfish tail? Seeing a bunch of them all at once.
I saw multiple schools and singles tailing throughout the day and spent as much time taking pictures and watching them as I did fishing. I landed seven reds on a variety of flies including tan and gold bendbacks as well as some awesome topwater bites on a purple deer hair slider.
Thursday brought more clouds but the wind remained light. Despite the temptation, I did not return to check on the fish from the previous day but, instead, checked out some different locations. My third cast resulted in a strike from a tailing red on the deer hair slider. For the next couple hours, almost all the fish I saw were too shallow for me to approach with the trolling motor. Fly fishing from the poling platform is not practical so I continued searching until I located some fish tailing in slightly deeper water.Using the flies mentioned above, I caught four redfish. I topped the day off with four nice seatrout and got off the water just as the rain arrived.
Moderate winds forecast for the next several days and above average temperatures, look for the reds to continue prowling the shallow water and actively tailing throughout the day. With the low water levels, those fishing from a kayak or canoe will have access to fish that most other boats cannot reach. When casting to fish that are cruising the flats with their backs exposed, cast well in front of them and let them find your lure. Allowing your cast to drop next to a ultra shallow water fish is sure to spook them.
Capt. Chris Myers
Central Florida Sight Fishing Charters
http://www.floridafishinglessons.com
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Dec 14, 2006; 12:58PM - Butler Chain
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt Tim Fey
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The past week we have spent a few days out on Butler Chain following various bait fish pods and watching the schooling activity in many of the lakes. Schooling fish have been spotted on several of the lakes on the chain with the waters cooled down nicely and still very clean. Saturday was a day spent targeting several different areas working several different types of lures with great success at catching bass in the 2 to 4 pound range.
Lakes Blanche and Chase were good producers using all white spinner baits in and around grass beds in 4 to 6 foot of water, in a slow rolled fashion. Watermellon/red shad with a small bullet weight, not pegged, worked along grass edges and very slowly did pick up a few good slot sized bass, most bites were very light, but we have noticed an increase in the quality of the bite.
Lake Sheen seen some good bait fish pods located in the center area of the lake, so that was the main target area, tossing a Long A and working slowly, after the first cast was complete, I actually had to pick bait fish off the hooks, second cast produced a nice 3 pound bass, picking up 3 more in the same fashion, I made a move into Lake Pocket. Working shoreline areas and drop offs, I found once again the bite to be very light, but in this case it was much smaller bass so I headed out to Lake Tibet to end the day. Tibet had scattered schooling action, which I avoided as I was looking for a solid pattern and that pattern was not chasing schoolers around.
The pattern was dictated early on in the day, slow rolled spinner baits, shads weighted with a small bullet weight in and around the grass beds, located closer to deeper water dropoffs, and Long A’s and rattle traps on the outside edges of grass lines, again with a deeper water drop off close by. Big key was to work the baits slow, even the rattle traps and the bass would hit.
Till my next report
Tight lines and great fishing
Capt Tim Fey
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Dec 11, 2006; 11:14AM - 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
Dec. 04-10, 2006
WEATHER: I just love this time of the year! In the morning it is almost cool enough to need a light jacket or sweater since it has been 60 degrees the past few mornings. In the day it never seems to get much above 80 degrees in the direct sun and there is just a slight breeze in the afternoons and evenings. We have had only partly cloudy skies this week and of course, no rain. I don’t believe I have seen conditions much better than this for a long time!
WATER: The water is cooling down the farther we get into the winter season and of course things change quickly. Our average temperature on the Cortez side of the Cape has been about 76 degrees inside the 1,000 fathom line, outside of there, past the Cabrillo Seamount, it is a few degrees warmer. Just off of the beach it has been much cooler, as low as 73 degrees in some spots. On the Pacific side of the Cape it has been a bit warmer with the average temperature being 78 degrees with a band of slightly cooler water just off of the beach. Over all our water temperatures seemed to have dropped several degrees this week, but they can change at any time. Surface conditions were excellent with just a slight swell and little if any wind chop.
BAIT: A fairly even mix of Mackerel and Caballito were available at the normal $2 per bait. I did not hear of any Sardinas in the area.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: The Striped Marlin bite that was happening for boats fishing the Golden Gate Bank has fallen off a bit more than last week, there are still some fish there but you are really scratching to get them. Fortunately for us, the mass of fish seems to have moved closer to home and there are now fish being caught daily off of the light-house ledge using the same technique of deep dropping live bait and drifting across the holding area. The size of the fish has varied between 60 pounds to 130 pounds with a few of the fish way on the other side of both ends of that range. I heard of one Striped Marlin of #30 being released and one of #220 being released. As far as other billfish are concerned, I have not heard of any Blue or Black Marlin in the past week, but there have been some Sailfish appearing in the area, I had a good Panga captain report that he had released one that he thought would have been an easy #200, the size of a large Striped Marlin!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: We finally had some Yellowfin show up this week! On Thursday a few boats found the fish 13 miles to the west-southwest mixed in with a few porpoise. There were birds working the area and the fish were feeding hard on Mackerel and Flying Fish. With only a few boats there the first day the fishing was good. The fish were so thick and aggressive that boats were able to scoop bait from the water as they were taking shelter under the boats! The fish varied in size from 25 pounds to 60 pounds with a few fish on either size of that range. Friday the fish were still there but only the first couple of boats had any bites, on Saturday it was a repeat. We had a client that was the fist to the fish and he managed to score 8 fish between 25 and 70 pounds, the second boat there caught two fish and the other 15-20 boats that showed up caught maybe 5 fish between them.
DORADO: Even thought the Yellowfin finally showed up, Dorado remained the fish of the week due to the consistency of the catch. Most boats were able to get at lest one or two Dorado in the box, a few did quite a bit better than that. The bite has remained on the Pacific side and has appeared better closer to the beach, up around 15-25 miles to the north of Cabo. The fish are hitting bright colored lures and slow trolled live bait and have been averaging 20 pounds.
WAHOO: I saw the smallest Wahoo I have seen in a long time this week when the same client who got into the Tuna caught a 4-½ pound fish on Tuesday. With 5 days of fishing Lance was able to get at least one of every species available, nice job Lance! Other than that, there were not very many Wahoo reported from our area. I had heard that there was a halfway decent bite up at the Inman Banks, but had no confirmed reports of those fish.
INSHORE: There are Sierra showing up, and starting to show in decent numbers, but the target for most of the boats fishing inshore this week has been Snapper and Grouper. None of these have been large fish and not in huge numbers either, but at least they are great eating.
NOTES: Our Striped Marlin and Yellowfin Tuna fishing continues to improve every week, my fingers are crossed that it continues. Meanwhile the holidays are coming up and with my mother coming to visit for Christmas, a lot of my time between fishing and working on the boat will be taken up with getting the house ready for the visit! Until next week, Tight Lines!
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Dec 10, 2006; 01:48PM - 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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Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
December 10, 2006
Anglers –
Moderate crowds of tourists are traveling to Los Cabos and they are being greeted with lots of sunshine, high temperatures of 80 degrees, very enjoyable considering the reports of freezing and wet conditions across most of the United States. North winds continue to prevail, but were not as persistent as last week, in recent days the winds averaged in the 8 to 12 miles per hour range. These winds have helped cooler and dirtier currents to push in from the north and the water clarity was now green and murky on the Sea of Cortez side of the peninsula, with the cleaner water now being found off the Pacific.
Sportfishing fleets searched in all directions, looking to find the best possible action for striped marlin, dorado, and yellowfin tuna, overall the numbers of fish caught was less than two weeks ago, which is not unexpected for this time of year when there is the transition from the Fall to Winter season. Live sardinas were being netted from Palmilla to Santa Maria and was still the bait of choice for the medium sized gamefish. Water temperatures are now ranging from 74 to 78 degrees, with the coolest band being located close to shore off of San Jose del Cabo. Swells were practically non-existent along the beaches and the cooler water has attracted more numbers of sierra and smaller roosterfish.
Yellowfin tuna were found in various locations from Cabo San Lucas to Santa Maria and north to the Gordo Banks area, sometimes associated with porpoise, but more often they were located in schools closer to shore while chumming sardinas to bring them to the surface, often they would bite early and then shut down by mid-morning, sea lions were particularly a nuisance off of Santa Maria to Cabeza Ballena, at times making it nearly impossible to land a fish without having it eaten. Tuna were not overly abundant and the average fish being landed weighed 10 to 40 pounds, white and black skipjack were mixed in with the yellowfin and were weighing up to 10 pounds. Over the weekend anglers scouted out the Gordo Banks which had not shown any results earlier in the week, but with water clarity showing some improvement they accounted for some larger yellowfin tuna while drift fishing with live and dead sardinas, these fish ranged from 25 to 90 pounds, some pangas landed up to four or five tuna.
Dorado action improved some, maybe because more anglers were starting to troll lures and larger baits, such as bolito or skipjack. Dorado up to 50 pounds were caught, but most of the fish were found in smaller schools and more of them were in the 10 to 25 pound class, with charters that targeted them averaging anywhere from one to three dorado per day. These fish were striking on lures and various baits at about an equal ratio.
Wahoo season never really happened this fall season, basically only a flurry of activity early in November, this past week there were reports of a few scattered fish being hooked on lures, typically closer to Cabo San Lucas, but that was only for a day or two and now with the cooling water temperatures we could find that it will be even more difficult to find any cooperative wahoo this late in the year.
Striped marlin dominated the billfish action, though it was mainly on the Pacific, from El Faro to the Golden Gate Bank. Schools of mackerel were found balled up on the surface at times and this created a feeding frenzy, it was common for charters to account for several marlin and even as many as six in one outing. A good percentage of stripers were also striking on trolled lures.
Inshore there were increased numbers of sierra and roosterfish showing up, most of them less than
5 pounds, but scrappy fighters on light tackle. Off the bottom anglers had mixed success while using bait and yo-yo jigs for cabrilla, pargo, pompano, triggerfish and grouper.
There were approximately 69 total panga charters launched this week by the combined panga fleets of La Playita. Anglers accounted for a fish count of: 7 striped marlin, 8 sailfish, 64 dorado, 32 yellowfin tuna, 190 skipjack, 24 cabrilla, 5 amberjack, 16 pompano, 135 triggerfish, 82 pargo, 185 sierra and 28 roosterfish.
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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Dec 9, 2006; 02:06PM - Mixed Bag This Week
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Category: Mexico Ixtapa Zihuatanejo
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Clean 83° blue water within four or five miles of the harbor allowed everyone to get an early start. Sailfish action remained constant this week with most boats averaging one or two a day.
Charles Sterling of Michigan, fishing with Santiago on the panga “Gitana,” scored on half a dozen roosters, a couple of sailfish, one 35-pound dorado plus a handful of jacks, sierra and black skipjack.
Overall, the roosterfish action was hurt by the full moon. The bait fish are scattered, as well as the larger exotics. This should change this week. There are still plenty of small jacks and black skipjack in the 2 to 5 pound range
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 74 - 82
Air temperature 65-86
Humidity 93%
Wind: Light
Conditions: Partly Sunny
Visibility 3 miles
Sunrise 7:05 a.m. MST
Sunset 6:12 p.m. MST
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Dec 9, 2006; 02:04PM - Late, But Great . . . Baja Action
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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REPORT #1040 “Below the Border” Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
Endless Season Update 12/09/06
East Cape
Mid-December and there are still billfish and dorado to be found. On the nice days outside Punta Pescadero, there is a fair concentration of both dorado and billfish which is a pretty good direction to head if there is a wind line outside. On the calm days, the fleet has found dorado and billfish outside of Rancho Leonero and on down to the lighthouse.
The squid action continues in front of Palmas which is handy if you’re looking for some extra chum to use. Squid chunks are excellent to keep the fish around the boat long enough to get off some casts to them.
If the sierra bite continues, there is going to be a lot of folks OD’ing on ceviche. Early morning continues to offer the best action for the toothy critters and don’t forget the long-shank hooks or a short wire bite tippet.
Water temperature 72-78
Air temperature 65-78
Humidity 84%
Wind: NE at 5 mph
Conditions: Sunny
Visibility 7 miles
Sunrise 6:48 a.m. MST
Sunset 5:33 p.m. MDT
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Just a few boats left to enjoy the mid-November-like action. Plenty of bird schools holding dorado, marlin and a few with tuna as well. Captain Carey Dodson on the “Success” reported great marlin action all day and yellowtail to 30 pounds on the chute at night.
Brad Ellis, trailered his panga up from Rincon, headed out the boca toward the Thetis and was seen running from bird school to bird school sight-casting to feeding marlin. He hooked several when he could get his fly past the dorado.
Don Armstrong, Park City, Utah, fishing with our guide on the “Mar Gato” for three days this week, was reduced to babbling about how over-the-top the billfish action they had encountered had been. They hooked multiple marlin on both fly and conventional and have already booked their trip for next year!
Not to be outdone, the esteros produced non-stop action for grouper, pargo and a few corvina.
Water temperature 70 - 78
Air temperature 64 -84
Humidity 93%
Wind: Light
Conditions: Cloudy
Visibility 6 miles
Sunrise 6:55 a.m. MST
Sunset 5:36 p.m. MST
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
Clean 83° blue water within four or five miles of the harbor allowed everyone to get an early start. Sailfish action remained constant this week with most boats averaging one or two a day.
Charles Sterling of Michigan, fishing with Santiago on the panga “Gitana,” scored on half a dozen roosters, a couple of sailfish, one 35-pound dorado plus a handful of jacks, sierra and black skipjack.
Overall, the roosterfish action was hurt by the full moon. The bait fish are scattered, as well as the larger exotics. This should change this week. There are still plenty of small jacks and black skipjack in the 2 to 5 pound range
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 74 - 82
Air temperature 65-86
Humidity 93%
Wind: Light
Conditions: Partly Sunny
Visibility 3 miles
Sunrise 7:05 a.m. MST
Sunset 6:12 p.m. MST
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Dec 4, 2006; 08:30PM - 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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Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
December 3, 2006
Anglers –
Typically the week after Thanksgiving is a period when there are less people traveling
on vacation, as they start preparing for the Christmas Holiday Season, surprisingly at
this time there still are good crowds of tourists in the Los Cabos area. The north winds were relentless starting on Wednesday night, blowing through the weekend, at times gusting up to 25 miles per hour. Generally the days were cooler, highs of about 75 degrees, water temperatures are still warm, averaging from 79 to 81 degrees, but we expect that this cooler weather will now put the water on cooling trend. The all around fishing action was like the weather, the bite was flat out cold for most of the week. Fish counts dropped off considerably and with the winds fleets were limited where they could concentrate their efforts. Charters were spread out in all directions trying to locate the best possible action and for the most part they found that inshore was the best bet, as more sierra were now moving in along the local beaches.
Live sardinas were now being found along the beaches from Red Hill to Santa Maria, and off of the San Jose del Cabo Estuary, but at times anglers had to wait patiently in order to obtain their daily supplies.
Daily catches included sierra, yellowfin tuna, skipjack and dorado, striped marlin, amberjack, cabrilla, pargo, triggerfish, pompano and rainbow runners. The panga fleets found the most consistent action inshore for sierra of 2 to 5 pounds from Punta Gorda to Red Hill with a combination of live sardinas, rapalas and hoochies.
The action for yellowfin tuna has slowed down to a standstill, with only an odd fish here and there, most them were hooked on sardinas in the areas from La Fortuna to Iman and the average weight of the few tuna that were landed ranged from 15 to 30 pounds, an exception was a 75 pound yellowfin tuna that was caught by Bill Gray of Cottonwood, California on Friday while fishing with skipper Jesus on the super panga “ Katie” from Gordo Banks Pangas.
Dorado action was scattered as well, early in the week there were some respectable catches accounted for, as a few charters ended up with five or six fish for the day, with weights up to 25 pounds, though after the strong northerly winds kicked up this made the water turn off colored and slowed the action considerably.
With the cooler and greener water conditions it was tough to find wahoo, but everyday there was talk of a couple of them being seen or hooked into. We were optimistic that this coming full moon would entice the wahoo into action, but so far that has not been the case.
Cruisers out of Cabo San Lucas reported good action for striped marlin, but the fish were to the north, ten or more miles, striking best on live baits that were being drifted down deep.
The panga fleets from La Playita sent out approximately 116 charters for the week, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 2 wahoo, 65 dorado, 55 yellowfin tuna, 135 skipjack, 16 amberjack, 14 cabrilla, 365 sierra, 42 yellowtail snapper, 38 pompano,
15 rainbow runner and 205 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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Dec 4, 2006; 12:45PM - Johns Lake
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Category: Florida
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Author Name: Capt Tim Fey
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We had a pretty good run out on Johns Lake Friday. Kevin from “Ultimate Fishing Site” came to fish Johns Lake and starting the day out was amazed at the schooling action he got to witness. Just as safe light cracked, the bass went to schooling in mass just about everywhere you looked in the Deer Island cut, catching quick bass with the lures he brought with him, the Bite Light Viper and the KickTail XL.
As the bite slowed down, artificials were used with a mix of shiners to keep the bite going, picking up a few more bass here and there with a few pickeral mixed in. Saturday saw us back at it again, Kevin, as well myself with high hopes of some more great schooling action first thing in the morning with the exact same weather conditions, saw no schooling action to speak of in Deer Island cut and no bites.
We made a move over to the Horseshoe, and there was some schooling action, but very scattered and very little, Kevin was tossing a deep diving crank bait, fan casting thru the cut and working a slower than normal retrieve managed to pick up several good bass once again, having one, after a descent fight come unbuttoned right next to the boat. Slow trolled shiners, left over from the day before yielded a few blow up, one smaller bass and a monster bowfin. Most bass caught were right in the 2 to 3 pound range, with the big bass coming in at a very nice 7.4 pounds.
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Dec 4, 2006; 11:36AM - 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
Nov. 27-Dec. 03, 2006
WEATHER: We had very nice weather this past week with our daytime highs hitting the mid 80’s and our lows at night in the low 60’s. At the end of the week we were mostly cloudy but with no rain. Early in the week we were expecting a couple of days of very strong winds, but it appeared that a push from the south kept the northerly winds (20-30 knots) away from us, all we got was one day of perhaps 20 knot winds from the north.
WATER: There is not much to say about the water conditions, there are no strong temperature breaks or color breaks within our area. The surface temperature has remained an almost constant 80-81 degrees within 40 miles of Cabo. We did have some fairly choppy conditions during the middle of the week when northerly gusts blew in for the day, but other than that things have been just great out there.
BAIT: A fairly even mix of Mackerel and Caballito were available at the normal $2 per bait. I did not hear of any Sardinas in the area.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Just about the only billfish I heard of this week were Striped Marlin and a couple of Sailfish, I am not sure if there are still any Blue Marlin in the area as the water is getting colder every week. The Striped Marlin have been spread out. While there are still many of the fleet boats working the Golden Gate Bank hard with drifting live bait, the bite has not made it worthwhile for many boats. In an effort to find more fish they have been searching off of the ledges on the Pacific side just off the beach and have come up with a few fish on the drift and on the troll. A few boats have gone up the Sea of Cortez around Punta Gorda and have done fairly well and there was a halfway decent bite for two days off of the Red Hill area. Most of the fish have been small Striped Marlin; just as last weeks fish were fairly small, I mean that the average has been less than #100. I have heard that boats working the area outside of Magdalena Bay (far out of reach for a 1 day trip) have been doing exceptionally well on the Stripers, we can only hope that just as happened last year, these fish make it down to our area. Perhaps as the water cools down and the bait supply starts concentrating in our area things will pick up.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Yellowfin Tuna were hard to find this week, a few fish were found up on the Sea of Cortez and a few were found to the north of the Golden Gate and around the Finger Bank, but the fish we were finding on the south side of the San Jaime have moved on. Boats have been going to the south as far as 40 miles without any luck this week.
DORADO: There is no doubt that Dorado are still the fish of the week, and they may end up being the fish of the month if the Yellowfin Tuna and Marlin don’t start biting. There are still fair numbers of fish being found on the Pacific side of the Cape from inside the Golden Gate Bank to the Finger Bank, and there have been a few boats reporting great action a bit farther north. That is out of range for most of us but it is nice to know that those fish should eventually move south toward us. The Dorado have mostly been fairly good-sized fish with an average of 18-20 pounds.
WAHOO: Wahoo fishing improved this week with quite a few of fish between 45-60 pounds being caught. There were no large concentrations of them, but the ones that were caught were found in areas that typically hold these speed demons. Water between 250 and 350 feet in depth just off of the major points and on the banks gave up fish. Dark colored lures trolled between 8 and 10 knots brought savage strikes and a few boats that targeted Wahoo caught fish, but at that speed, not much else!
INSHORE: Inshore fishing is still slow with most of the Pangas trying for Dorado. A few bottom fish have been caught as well as a scattering of Sierra and early season Yellowtail off of the rocky points, but there just has not been any consistent inshore action. Red Snapper in 250 feet of water has been the basic fish close to the beach, but there had been a couple of days with decent Pompano action just off the beach’s on the Pacific side, noting large but at least good eating fish!
NOTES: The weather is perfect, I wish the fishing was. It is not bad, but there are boats coming in with nothing to show for a full day on the water. Then again, there have been boats coming in from a day out that have been flying an honest three Marlin, three Tuna and two Dorado flags almost every day. Once in a while things just break your way! I hope it does for you next time you visit us! Until then, Tight Lines!
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Dec 2, 2006; 02:55PM - Inshore Hot!
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Category: Mexico Ixtapa Zihuatanejo
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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The 80° blue water is at the Solitary Rock, only 1/2 mile in front of Zihuatanejo Bay. Averaging 1 or 2 sailfish a day per boat, we are having fairly decent action, because a few 15 to 25 pound dorado also making a showing.
The majority of the yellowfin tuna are still beyond the 1,000 fathom line at the 30 mile mark, but some football sized tuna (10 pounds) did show up for a couple of days only a mile off the beach in front of Ixtapa.
The inshore action is excellent. With Orlando on the panga Tequila, fly shop owner and guide, Scott Cook and his dad Glen, of Bend Oregon, fished two days inshore. Each day they accounted for several small jack crevalle, sierras, black skipjacks, grouper, and cabrilla. Glen also took a 40 pound rooster on live bait.
Yesterday (Saturday), they made the run down with me to Puerto Vicente Gro., to target roosters on the fly. Scott got his 30 pounder only about 10 minutes after we started fishing. When Orlando grabbed the leader at the boat, the rooster broke off, leaving us with only in the water photos.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 74 - 82
Air temperature 62-91
Humidity 88%
Wind: Light
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 6 miles
Sunrise 7:01 a.m. MST
Sunset 6:10 p.m. MST
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