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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 22, 2025
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28 Oct 2013 - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo October 19, 2013
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: Eric Brictson
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GORDO BANKS PANGAS
San Jose del Cabo
October 19, 2013
Anglers –
The week started out with the passing of Tropical Storm Octave, this latest
system followed a path a couple of hundred of miles off to the west of the
Southern Baja Peninsula, before making landfall north of Magdalena Bay.
Local Ports were officially closed Sunday afternoon until reopening Tuesday
morning, higher ocean swells, winds gusts to 30 mph and moderate to heavy
rainfall was the main impact felt, with isolated rainfall totals of 3 to 5
inches were reported. Needless to say the roads were a flooded mess. With
tournament season now here, there are large crowds of anglers arriving from
all around the world. The weather has now settled and conditions are ideal,
highs in the upper 80s and early mornings are very comfortable with a light
wind breaker jacket.’
Ocean water temperatures are still in the 85 degree range, clean blue water
is found within a few mile of shore, though baitfish have become harder to
obtain. Sardinas are now schooling near Cabo San Lucas, though this
preferred baitfish have not been schooling near San Jose del Cabo.
Caballito has been another bait option, available in limited quantities.
Out of San Jose del Cabo fleets have been using fresh caught squid,
imported from the Los Frailes area, though over this recent full moon
phase, suddenly this resource of squid has vanished and carnaderos (bait
suppliers) are once again scrambling to find new options. Ballyhoo have not
been available on a regular basis either, this is the time when more
artificial lures, jigging and other alternate techniques will be used, we
do anticipate that the bait situation will rebound, hard to say exactly
when this will happen, as global weather patterns can alter normal
migration habits. Of course the heavy presence of factory processing ships
targeting sardinas in Mag Bay certainly does not help the situation.
The most consistent fishing action recently was found from the Iman to San
Luis Bank. This is where sportfishing fleets from all directions are
congregating, dicing and chumming with fresh cut squid, while drift fishing
with strips of the same bait on light tackle, this technique has been
producing good numbers of yellowfin tuna in the 8 to 20 lb. class. At times
the yellowfin proved to be finicky, moving around rapidly, up and down,
appearing and disappearing just as quickly. The same fishing grounds were
producing a mix of wahoo and dorado, but not in any significant numbers,
more wahoo were actually landed on stripped squid, as were caught on
traditional trolling lures. The wahoo that have been accounted for averaged
25 to 40 lb. Dorado schools have spread out, even though the warm water
conditions would seem favorable for these fish, hard to say where they have
gone. There are some sailfish and marlin hanging around the same grounds
where the yellowfin tuna are schooling. A handful of marlin over 500 pounds
have been accounted for by tournament teams trolling these same grounds.
Off the bottom there were a few quality sized grouper landed, as well as a
handful of amberjack, dogtooth snapper, pargo colorado, cabrilla, bonito
and huachinango. Anglers used various whole and cut baits and yo-yo jigs to
find mixed success off the bottom
structure.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 155 charters for this past week, with anglers
accounting for a fish count of: 2 blue marlin, 8 striped marlin, 13
sailfish, 32 wahoo, 6 amberjack, 7 rainbow runner, 6 dogtooth snapper, 20
bonito, 18 huachinango, 14 grouper, 28 dorado and 730 yellowfin tuna.
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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