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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? |
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| 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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13 Nov 2006 - 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
November 12, 2006
Anglers –
Crowds of anglers continue to travel to the Los Cabos area and sportfishing fleets
are operating at near capacity levels. The weather is absolutely ideal now, highs in
the mid 80s, lows in the upper 60s, very little wind and calm ocean conditions. With
the exception of Thursday when a moderate swell kicked up from the distant Tropical
Depression Roy, the rest of the week saw little swell movement. Ocean water
temperatures gradually dropped a couple of degrees, now ranging from 80 to 82
degrees. The majority of charters were catching fish and overall there was an
impressive variety of gamefish accounted for, most common were yellowfin tuna,
dorado, wahoo, skipjack and billfish. Live bait has consisted of caballito and
sardinas and on the fishing grounds there were schools of small trolling sized
chihuil, bolito and skipjack that were proving to be
reliable options for anglers targeting larger fish.
The Gordo Banks were producing consistent catches of yellowfin tuna ranging from 30
to over 100 pounds and with a few over 200 pounds also accounted for. Bad news is
that commercial purse seiner activity has been noticed on the horizon and everyone
is hoping that they remain the legal distance offshore and do not clean out these
fishing grounds that have finally come to life after a long dry spell. The yellowfin
on the banks were striking on sardinas best, with dead bait being better than live,
fished in a chum line, as one would do with chunk bait. The average yellowfin in
recent days being landed from the Gordo Banks has been in the 60 to 100 pound range,
the numbers has not been huge, but the majority of the anglers targeting these
larger grade of tuna in recent days have returned with one or two of them in the
fish box. The bite for the medium sized yellowfin that are averaging 15 to 25
pounds and have been concentrated within one mile of shore from Red Hill to Punta
Gorda has become less productive, there still has been lots of fish seen feeding
and coming up on the chummed sardinas, the fish have been more line shy and harder
to entice. Maybe the latest full moon may have effected the way the fish are
feeding, this was an exceptionally bright moon, most likely the fish were feeding
more at night, making them less active in the morning and then they seemed to go
back on the bite later in the morning, at least this was the noticeable pattern
towards the later part of the week.
Dorado were scattered throughout the same areas where fleets were finding yellowfin
tuna, but not in any significant numbers, though some boats did land up to five of
them, ranging in sizes up to 25 pounds, live bait was best, though of course a few
were striking on medium sized trolled lures as well. Normal catches of dorado were
more like one fish for every couple of boats. Wahoo numbers were even less, though
early in the week anglers did find some good action on these speedsters near Iman
Bank, which means they are in the area. Trolling with Yo-Zuris, Rapalas, Marauders
and skirted lead heads all produced, once the schools were located, resulting in
many multiple strikes. Sizes of the wahoo landed ranged from 25 to 55 pounds. The
rest of the week produced very wahoo, but the backside of the full moon is never the
preferred time for wahoo, so we are anticipating more consistent action in the
coming weeks.
Billfish action for striped marlin was breaking wide open in areas on the Pacific,
as the migration of stripers is now returning in full force from their northerly
trek. Marlin were also found into the Sea of Cortez around the 95 and 1150 spots,
not as many as in the cooler Pacific waters, though sizes were larger, including
stripers up to 180 pounds. San Jose panga fleets reported quite a few sailfish mixed
in with the inshore yellowfin tuna action, sails were weighing in the 50 to 100
pound class and were striking on live sardinas.
Other catches included roosterfish, pargo, pompano, rainbow runner, amberjack,
sailfish, sierra and triggerfish. Though none of these species were numerous, with
the exception of triggerfish.
For the week the combined panga fleets out of La Playita sent out approximately 223
charters, with anglers accounting for a fish count of: 7 striped marlin, 22 sailfish
(released), 5 roosterfish, 145 dorado, 495 yellowfin tuna, 18 wahoo, 25 pargo, 6
amberjack, 14 sierra, 8 pompano, 22 rainbow runner, 105 white skipjack and 140
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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