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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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| A bit of Humor |
| 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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4 Nov 2013 - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo November 3, 2013
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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 3, 2013
Anglers –
Visitors to Los Cabos are enjoying exciting times, as we are now in the
midst of the peak fall sportfishing season. The largest of all fishing
tournaments, Bisbee’s Black and Blue, was held this past week and once
again this event ended with the jackpot marlin being caught in the final
moments on the last day and more exciting yet, the top two largest marlin
were landed by women anglers.
Busy schedules now for all sportfishing fleets, though local weather has
seen an unusual late Tropical Storm Sonia developing off to the southwest,
this contributed to creating windy and choppy ocean conditions, which have
plagued the region now for several days and is forecast to continue through
the weekend and into next week. This storm front is an unfortunate
situation for the hundreds of anglers who plan their annual trips during
this period when you normally expect to find much calmer comfortable
conditions. Despite the bum conditions people are keeping their spirits
high, knowing that all this is out of everyone’s control, the luck of the
draw, weather patterns are becoming harder to predict worldwide.
Fleets have been traveling in all directions, scouting out all of the
possible fishing grounds within range, ocean water temperatures are now
averaging about 84 degrees throughout the area, not much temperature
variance, though we do expect that a cooling off trend will begin during
this next week. Bait situation has been day to day, with very small sized
sardinas being netted off rocky stretches near Santa Maria, there were
caballito available and even some mackerel were offered earlier in the
week, as well as ballyhoo and slabs of squid at the dock area. There were
options of catching larger baitfish on the grounds, overall the bait
resource has been sufficient, main problem now was dealing with the
relentless north winds that were swirling from out of the southwest as well.
Anglers were finding a mix of dorado, yellowfin tuna, wahoo and billfish,
none of which were especially numerous. With ocean temperatures holding
warm this late, we are expecting the action to become more consistent after
these weather patterns stabilize. Recently the action has been limited to
an average of several fish in combination per charter, though there were
exceptions for other anglers that happened to be at the right place.
The large yellowfin tuna are still on the Gordo Banks, everyday there have
been a couple of hook ups reported, not many of these larger tuna were
actually landed, tuna up to 141 lb. were accounted for by the local panga
fleet, with others lost after extended battles. Smaller football sized
yellowfin were found near Santa Maria and on the Gordo Banks or Iman Bank,
though this action was sporadic and most boats that did land these fish
would only catch a few fish. Dorado were mixed in, found in medium sized
schools spread out, most of these fish were weighing less than fifteen
pounds, with an occasional specimen to 20 pounds being reported. The main
factor for fewer all around numbers of fish was the relentless winds which
limited where boats could comfortable and practically concentrate their
efforts.
Wahoo were hiding out most of the week, only a handful of these fish were
landed, with other numerous strikes missed. This is now the time we expect
to see these fish make their presence known. Once again, as this weather
front passes through we do expect things to get back on track.
Not much bottom action was even attempted during these winds times, anglers
found it hard enough to troll or drift fish the surface, let alone try to
hold the bottom.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos
Marina sent out approximately 205 charters for this past week, with anglers
accounting for a fish count of: 2 black marlin, 4 blue marlin, 16 striped
marlin, 18 sailfish, 13 wahoo, 4 amberjack, 14 bonito, 14 pargo, 2
surgeonfish , 35 triggerfish,10 cabrilla, 15 sierra, 260 dorado and 125
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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