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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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| 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 22, 2025
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Sep 17, 2005; 01:13PM - Inshore Best Bet This Week
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Category: Mexico Ixtapa Zihuatanejo
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The fishing remains unchanged for the last several weeks. It is poor fishing for the offshore species, and fairly decent inshore for the roosterfish and big jack crevalle. The 84ş to 86ş blue water is about twelve miles out, but the gamefish are not around.
Adolpho, on the panga Dos Hermanos, went 34 miles and had only one hooked sailfish and one other strike. Very few boats are getting more than one sailfish a day.
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The roosterfish action is averaging about three fish per boat. We did have a couple of days this week where the surf was very high from offshore storms. This makes it difficult to get in close to the shore break to properly present a bait to the roosters. As our rain season winds down over the next couple of weeks, there should be an improvement on our inshore fishing conditions.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 80 - 84
Air temperature 77 - 90
Humidity 79%
Wind: Calm
Conditions: T-Storms
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:34 a.m. CDT
Sunset 7:45 p.m. CDT
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Sep 17, 2005; 01:11PM - More Fish Than People
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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REPORT #976. “Below the Border” Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
East Cape
With all of the recent news about hurricanes, it is understandable that the locals at East Cape keep a close eye on the Mexican Satellite map. So far...so good. While the weather has been hot and there have been some showers in the foothills in the afternoon, it was still a pretty nice week. Billfish continued to provide some good offshore action and if you found the right pod of porpoise the action could have you reaching for a cerveza in no time at all. While mid day is the best time for the beach action, the hot sun kept most anglers closer to the pool than the beach. There were a few “Bubba” sightings near Bartle Beach and a pretty good ladyfish bite in front of the hotel. Best bet was early morning or late afternoon as the sun dropped behind the mountains.
Baja on the Fly
Water temperature 80-88
Air temperature 78-93
Humidity 69%
Wind: Calm
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:06 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:19 p.m. MDT
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Full moon and strong currents didn’t slow the action down at the Entrada. Enrique Soto reported leopard grouper to 18 lbs and a handful of firecracker yellows kept the clients busy on Friday. Offshore, there are still plenty of marlin sightings by the locals who usually don’t target them. Most of the dorado reported this week were on the small side and few tuna were found. Shrimp season has begun and most of the locals have been targeting them. Few fished the Esteros this week and the fishing was slow. There were a few corvina and pargo found near the bridge at the entrance to Puerto San Carlos.
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Water temperature 70-80
Air temperature 75-86
Humidity 78%
Wind: W 15
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 3 miles
Sunrise 7:10 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:33 p.m. MDT
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
The fishing remains unchanged for the last several weeks. It is poor fishing for the offshore species, and fairly decent inshore for the roosterfish and big jack crevalle. The 84ş to 86ş blue water is about twelve miles out, but the gamefish are not around.
Adolpho, on the panga Dos Hermanos, went 34 miles and had only one hooked sailfish and one other strike. Very few boats are getting more than one sailfish a day.
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The roosterfish action is averaging about three fish per boat. We did have a couple of days this week where the surf was very high from offshore storms. This makes it difficult to get in close to the shore break to properly present a bait to the roosters. As our rain season winds down over the next couple of weeks, there should be an improvement on our inshore fishing conditions.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 80 - 84
Air temperature 77 - 90
Humidity 79%
Wind: Calm
Conditions: T-Storms
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:34 a.m. CDT
Sunset 7:45 p.m. CDT
San Jose, Guatemala
Still a month to go before the sailfish action begins to heat up. While the sailfish seem to be here year round, the clients don’t begin to arrive in numbers until mid October at the earliest. Most of the crews are just finishing up their maintenance and clean up and hopping from one foot to the other waiting for the season to get underway.
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Water temperature 78 - 82
Air temperature 73- 86
Humidity 100%
Wind: WNE 7 mph
Conditions: Scattered Clouds
Visibility 6 miles
Sunrise 5:52 a.m. CST
Sunset 6:02 p.m. CST
For additional information: bajafly@bajafly.com
USA toll-free (800) 919-2252 or 760/746-7260;
Mexico 011-52-624-14-10373 or (760) 670 4916
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Sep 13, 2005; 06:24PM - Christmas Island gets new airline.
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Category: [other]
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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Pacific Air will start regular weekly flights to Chistmas Island from Honolulu in September 2005. The 3 hour flight will be on Tuesdays.
The fishing at Christmas Island is still great. We had lots of action and are already planning out next visit.
Aloha,
stan
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Sep 13, 2005; 06:17PM - Bone fish from Christmas Isl
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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Great news.... In Sept., Pacific Air out of Fiji, will have regularly scheduled flights from Honolulu to Christmas Island. The flights will be esch Tuesday and flight time is 3 hours.... YES!
Fishing is still fantastic at Christmas Island. We fished schools of 50 to 60 bonefish in ankle deep water along miles and miles of beautiful flats. Nothing big, 2 to 4 pounds... but so many of them. One day, I never moved from this one spot for 3 hours. The schools of fish just kept comming along the flat.
Just off shore we caught ahi, aku, ono, baracuda, and ulua. Lots of fresh poki and sashimi every evening.
Also, fish..... baked, curry, freied, and in salid.... to go with our lobster. The food at the Mini Hotel was.... wow.
Drifting or waiding the shallow reefs just off Paris Pt, we landed a multitude of colorful fish.... papio, omilu, kumu, sweet lips, lei and some fish I've never even seen before.
Our boatman spotted some big tako and jumped into the shallow water to grab them. (An 8# tako just fits on a big platter..... good eating.
We're already planning out next trip.
Aloha,
Stan
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Sep 13, 2005; 05:43PM - New airline to Christmas Isl.
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Category: Saltwater
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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The fishing was great. And starting in September when Pacific Air, out of Fiji, takes over the weekly scheduled flights, it will only take three hours to get there from Honolulu.
Known for fly fishing for bone fish on endless miles of shallow flats, Christmas Island also provided us with excelent action just off shore. Trowling small rapala lures, and jets, we landed yellowfin, aku, ono, baracuda, and GT.
All on spinning tackle. We had fresh fish at every meal.
Drifting the shallow reefs, we landed variety of colorful fish. They attacked flys trailing behind a clear bobber, gold and silver spoons, topwater lures, jerk baits, and soft plastics. Wild action on spinning and baitcasting tackle ranging from 2# test line up to 20# test. Next trip we take som spinners loaded with 60# test braided line for those LARGER G.T.we encountered and just couldn't handle.
Chris got the 2 biggest ulua (GT weighing 33 pound) on a large surface lure and 20# test line.
He was really excited about the 8# omilu (bluefin trevalle) he caught with his 12# test spinning outfit.
I must also say, the fly fishing for bone fish was excelent. Not really big bones (4# was our largest) but there were thousands of them.
Yes Virginia, Christmas Island isn't just for bone fishermen any more.
Aloha,
Stan
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Sep 13, 2005; 05:20PM - Christmas Island
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Category: Fly Fishing
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Author Name: Stan Wright
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Starting in September, Pacific Air out of Fiji will start regularly scheduled flights to Christmas Island each Tuesday. That's a 3 hour flight from Honolulu.
Just returned from Christmas and the fishing was excelent. Lots of bone fish.... not the largest in the world(a 4 pounder was the biggest I got) but there sure were a lot of fish.
We also worked the shallow reef and caught a huge variety of colorful. fish. Lots of GT from one pound up to 35 pounds. Drifting the shallow reef in the boat, I would wait till some one hooked up, check the size of hooked fish, and then choose the right size rod... then just roll cast to the school of fish following the hooked fish and it was instant hook up.
Start saving your money.... we're going again.
Aloha,
Stan
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Sep 12, 2005; 11:17AM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Sept. 4-11, 2005
WEATHER: Our day time highs have been in the high 90’s this week, and according to the weather guys, with the humidity we have it has felt like 110. Our nighttime lows have been in the low 80’s and you can hear the air conditioners everywhere at night. There was no rain this week although we did have a couple of cloudy days in the middle of the week and with the winds light from the west things stayed fairly still most of the time.
WATER: There were a few cool spots on the Sea of Cortez where the water was only 84 degrees but for the most part water temperatures were between 85 and 88 degrees. Maybe the gauge on the “Senor Moment” is off a bit, but I did read a few spots where we got over 90 degrees surface temperature up around Punta Gorda. On the Pacific side we had the water temperature vary a bit more with cold water at 82 degrees and warm water at 88 degrees. We have had a pretty strong current push water from the Sea of Cortez up the Pacific side and the current break that had been running north-south across the 95 spot has spread out a bit and moved farther to the west. The break is still there but it is not as defined, now being between Cabo and the Jaime Bank area. Farther up the Pacific coast, just off the beach inside the Golden Gate Bank is where you will find the 82-degree water.
BAIT: We had a pretty good mix of Caballito and Mackerel available this week at the normal $2 per bait. There were also Sardinas available from bait boats up around the Palmilla area at $20 a big scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: I love this time of the year with the variety of Billfish available! Once again every species we have available except for Swordfish and Spearfish were caught this week. There were plenty of Sailfish striking jigs on the Cortez side, but most of them were just strikes since the lures were a bit large for them! Dropping back a strip bait or small live bait resulted in quite a few fish being hooked up, as did drifting with live bait along the 100 fathom edge around the Punta Gorda area or the Gorda Banks. The Sailfish were averaging 80 pounds and some boats were getting three of four a day. Now that is not a lot if you are used to fishing Costa Rica, but for Cabo that is quite good! The reason not so many were hooked on lures was because most of the boats were pulling lures sized for the larger billfish such as Blue Marlin. Why? Well, they are here, that’s why! There have been a lot of them caught and released this week, and unfortunately a few killed as well. The action has been scattered but there were fish found at all the usual spots, the 95, the 1150, outside the Gorda, south of the Jaime, off of Punta Cristobal, almost anyplace where the currents and structure go together. The average size seemed to be around 250-300 pounds (as reported by excited anglers and Captains, it may have been less in actuality!) and almost all the action was on trolled lures. Keeping the speed up a bit, around 9 knots, brought aggressive strikes on lures in either blue-silver-yellow (Dorado colors) or black-green-silver (Skipjack colors). Some big Black Marlin were hooked as well, not as many of them as the Blue Marlin, but they were there. Action on the Blacks was mostly confined to just off of the various points and almost all of it took place in water between 300 and 900 feet in depth. Striped Marlin are still around and there was a good bite for Wednesday and Thursday 4-5 miles to the east of the 95 spot. Dropping back a live bait to fish coming into the lure spread resulted in most of the hook-ups and some boats were able to release four or five fish a day.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Once again there were school and football fish available up around the Punta Gorda area this week. It was a long run and you had to stop at the Palmilla area for Sardinas for bait, but there was decent action once you got there. Most of the Yellowfin action was early in the week, alter on the 15 pound Skipjack and Bonito moved in and while there were still a few Yellowfin to 30 pounds caught, the majority of fish were released as not being the “right” kind. For bigger Tuna you needed to find the porpoise, and at the end of the week it started to get good. Not much fish was found on the surface though; most of them were marked on depth sounder under Porpoise. Getting ahead of the group and dropping live bait on them resulted in fish ranging from #250 to #60 being fought and landed. Of course not everyone was able to get them to bite, a bit of luck was needed as well. Oh, and it also helped if you were using floura-carbon leader in #50, or tied you hook directly to 50 or 80 test line. Of course if you tied directly you needed to use a circle hook. Even then you sometimes lost a fish. One of my friends fought a Tuna estimated by him at #300-320 for three hours before loosing it right below the boat. He hooked it on #50 direct. He also caught one the next day he estimated at #150 but later turned out to be #223, so the one he lost may have been larger! Anyway, there are fish out there, you just have to find them, be ready and be lucky!
DORADO: This week was a repeat of last week’s action on Dorado. I saw a lot of Dorado flags this week and while there were a few nice fish to 50 pounds caught, most of the fish seemed to be in the 15-20 pound class. Close to shore, mostly within 2 miles was where most of the action took place with the exception of several boats that were able to find a piece of floating wood that held a decent school.
WAHOO: I didn’t hear of any Wahoo action this week.
INSHORE: With the great water conditions most of the Panga fleet this week was working offshore for Dorado and Marlin. Those that did work inshore reported fair to good action on Roosterfish, Skipjack, Jack Crevalle and Needlefish. Small hootchies and Sardinas were the lures and bait of choice inshore.
NOTES: Our computer is back! I was out four days this week so got to see quite a bit of action myself, and heard a lot on the radio so you have a pretty comprehensive report this week. My trips are slow for the nest two week so I will be writing a few articles and working on boats, envying the guys going out for Marlin and Tuna as I sit at home or on the docks! My best fishing music this week (almost every time I put these CD’s on we got bit) was Boz Scaggs and Ottmar Liebert, a little mellow but the fish liked them! Until next week, tight lines!
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Sep 10, 2005; 12:43PM - Maintenance Time!!
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Category: Guatemala Sport Fishing
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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September is “make ready” month for what everyone hopes will be another extraordinary year. Don’t miss the September\\October issue of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters magazine. Read Scott Leon’s “Swimming with the Fishes” story about Guatemala sailfishing. Our good friend Bill Boyce shot the photos for the article and they are outstanding.
Water temperature
78 - 82
Air temperature
73- 86
Humidity
100%
Wind:
SE 7 mph
Conditions:
Thunder Storms
Visibility
6 miles
Sunrise
5:52 a.m. CST
Sunset
6:08 p.m. CST
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Sep 10, 2005; 12:40PM - Consistent At Least
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Category: Mexico Ixtapa Zihuatanejo
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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There has not been much change this last couple of weeks. The sailfish action is still only averaging 1 or 2 fish per boat per day. Dorado are starting to build under the floating debris caused from rain runoff out of the rivers, but there have not been very many of them caught. The roosterfish action is still the best bet, with the boats averaging about 3 fish a day per boat.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature
80 - 84
Air temperature
77 - 88
Humidity
89%
Wind:
Calm
Conditions:
Scattered Clouds
Visibility
8 miles
Sunrise
7:33 a.m. CDT
Sunset
7:51 p.m. CDT
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Sep 10, 2005; 12:38PM - Psst…Wahoo & Dorado…Thetis Bank
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Category: Saltwater Fly Fishing Reports
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Author Name: Gary Graham
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REPORT #975. “Below the Border” Saltwater Fly-Fishing reports since 1996
Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico
Barry and Val Wilkerson of Loreto, looking for an escape from the typical Loreto hot summer temps, decided that a couple-hour trip across the peninsula to Lopez Mateos was in order.
The possibility of great fishing at Thetis Bank would be a bonus.
They arranged to fish with Magbay Outfitters on their speedy catamaran which put them in the zone in short order. The wahoo that Thetis is famous for have arrived as well as the dorado (so that’s where they have been). Not only did they catch both, they spotted a considerable number of marlin frolicking about.
With the action heating up offshore there were few bothering to fish the Esteros. The Entrada still has a few firecracker yellow under the bird school mixed in with the bonito.
Wahoo, dorado and pleasant weather……September at Magdalena Bay may make sense.
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Water temperature 70-80
Air temperature 75-86
Humidity 78%
Wind: W 15
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 3 miles
Sunrise 7:10 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:33 p.m. MDT
East Cape
September began with typical hot weather with just enough breezes in the afternoon to cool things down. As the SST chart reflects, the hot water continues all the way up into the Sea of Cortez. Once again the sardina played hard to get narrowing the bait choices down to mackerel, Caballito and anything else that comes up in the net. I am not kidding! One of the bait guys tried to sell us puffer fish claiming that they were great baits because the fish couldn’t spit them out! With the lack of sardine, strategy shifted back to chasing porpoise schools which yielded a better quality of YFT’s. Even a few gorilla class (100 lb. ) tuna charged the boat…. A Wasabi fly cast into boiling fish disappears as huge tuna inhales the fly…ZING…POW…@#$$%^…PRICLESS.
Billfish have been putting on a decent show up to the North - mostly sails, with a few stripes and blues mixed in - all within twenty miles. Talk about bizarre: the Giant Humbolt Squid showed up again this week. I told you it’s not what bites but what might!
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With the hot sun beating down during prime time during the day, most opted to hang out at the pool. Some action found within walking distance of the hotels early morning and late in the afternoon as the sun dropped behind the mountain. A few ladyfish, jacks and for the very lucky, a rooster or two could be found.
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Baja on the Fly
Water temperature 80-88
Air temperature 78-96
Humidity 55%
Wind: NNW 4 mph
Conditions: Clear
Visibility 10 miles
Sunrise 7:03 a.m. MDT
Sunset 7:27 p.m. MDT
Zihuatanejo, Mainland Mexico
There has not been much change this last couple of weeks. The sailfish action is still only averaging 1 or 2 fish per boat per day. Dorado are starting to build under the floating debris caused from rain runoff out of the rivers, but there have not been very many of them caught.
The roosterfish action is still the best bet, with the boats averaging about 3 fish a day per boat.
Ed Kunze
Water temperature 80 - 84
Air temperature 77 - 88
Humidity 89%
Wind: Calm
Conditions: Scattered Clouds
Visibility 8 miles
Sunrise 7:33 a.m. CDT
Sunset 7:51 p.m. CDT
San Jose, Guatemala
September is “make ready” month for what everyone hopes will be another extraordinary year. Don’t miss the September\\October issue of Fly Fishing in Salt Waters magazine. Read Scott Leon’s “Swimming with the Fishes” story about Guatemala sailfishing. Our good friend Bill Boyce shot the photos for the article and they are outstanding.
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Water temperature 78 - 82
Air temperature 73- 86
Humidity 100%
Wind: SE 7 mph
Conditions: Thunder Storms
Visibility 6 miles
Sunrise 5:52 a.m. CST
Sunset 6:08 p.m. CST
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