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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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| When Anglerfish mate, they melt into each other and share their bodies forever. |
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| Not all fishes lay eggs. |
| Fishes like split fins, surf-perches, and some sharks instead carry and give birth to live young. Scientists have also discovered that the embryos of some of these fishes actually consume each other in the womb. How’s that for creepy fish facts? |
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| The Sea Anemone looks like a flower, but it’s actually a carnivorous animal that eats small fish and shrimp. |
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| Fishes hear with both their ears and their skeletons, sensing the vibrations of sound in the water. |
| Scientists even suspect that sharks can clearly hear sounds from over 3 km away. |
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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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| Fish have built in radar? |
| Built-in Radar Many species of fish have a powerful sense organ called the lateral line running across their body. It can detect motion in the water, allowing them to hunt prey, avoid predators, and navigate in the dark. |
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Dec 27, 2009; 11:38PM
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Category: Looking for
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Name for Contacts: Annette Bowman
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Phone: 828-322-7176
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City: Hickory
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Looking for the Excalibur (Bill Dance signature series) Fat Free Fry in Crawfish. The lure is 2' long and the body is practicly see thru (with the exception for where the crawfish design and color has been airbrushed) I would like to purchase as many as you have. I will take old, new, it doesn't matter. This is all my boyfriend fishes with and he is almost out of these.
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Kids Only 12 and under
$50 worth of free fishing tackle for the photo with the most votes. Contest open to Kids only 12 and under at time of catch. Contest ends October 1st, 2003. Good luck to all.
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Apr 3, 2012; 01:15PM - Hawaiin jug trick
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Category: Fishing tips and tricks
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Author Name: Seamus
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
I recently learned this from an old Hawaiian fishing
book a friend loaned to me.
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<>When fishing for dolphin take a gallon jug attached to 20 feet of aid or dacron with a 2 ounce egg sinker sliding on it, connect to a swivel and then 6-10 feet of mono or fluro and a 6/0 circle hook.
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<>When you start hooking dolphin in the spread, throw the jug overboard baited with a chunk of fish, squid or small live-bait, being careful not to tangle your trolling lines. As you play out the already hooked fish, inevitably another dolphin takes the jug bait.
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<>This prevents you from losing the shoal whilst fighting the trolled fish and you also get several followers to cast to around the milk jug that you can go back to once you landed the first fish.
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<>Use a gaff to retrieve the jug/fish through the jug handle.
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<>Have tried it twice now and it worked like a charm both times, resulting in much more sport and fish on the grill.. Not sure if there are 'rules or regulations' against such things in the USA though.. |
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Dec 9, 2007; 09:35PM - Custom Fit Boat Cover
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Category: [other]
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Price: Varies
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Name for Contacts: Elite Outdoors
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State: MO
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Description 1:
When only the best will do! A perfect fit: measured, tucked, darted and approved by Hurricane's own pattern and design craftsman. Vulnerable wear and stress points are double reinforced with an extra tough material sewn to the underside of the cover. An unbreakable 1/4' poly draw rope sewn with the perimeter hem enables the cover to be cinched tight to the hull. 1' poly loops are sewn around the perimeter of the cover to accept a Hurricane strap/buckle tie down kit, bungee cords, or rope ties for positive securing to the boat. Built tough to take the exposure and abuse that boat covers are exposed to when trailering, storing, or mooring.
Westland has over 16,000 Exact Fit Custom Cover patterns for over 200 different boat manufacturers. You will have your choice of 3 fabrics and over 30 colors.
To check to see if we have a custom cover pattern for your boat please Email Us your year - make - model - any accessories like towers, swim platforms, bow rails, radar archs, etc. |
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Sharkskin color chart...also, available in Sunbrella |
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Aug 11, 2003; 11:08AM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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Capt George Landrum
Fly Hooker Sportfishing
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
CABO SAN LUCAS FISH REPORT FOR AUGUST 4 TO AUGUST 10, 2003
WEATHER: Hot and humid, warm and muggy, call it what you will, we had sweat rolling off
our foreheads this week. The only saving grace was a slight breeze from the southeast and having
the sun set. Our daytime highs were in the high 90’s and our nighttime lows in the low 80’s. A
few partly cloudy days midweek with a threat of rain, but none of it fell on us. (What’s Forever
For)
WATER: It got a bit rough in the afternoons when the breeze picked up if you were either south
of the Cape or on the Pacific side, but elsewhere and at other times the water was just slowly
rolling swells with a light ripple. There has been a thin band of cooler water along the shore, out
to a distance of three miles, running along the Sea of Cortez side of the Cape up to the area of
Gorda Banks. This water has been several degrees colder than the band just offshore, with the
warm water ranging from 85 to 86 degrees. This warmer band has extended out between 25 and
15 miles to the south, with another thin cooler band just behind it. In an east west direction from
the Cape, extending from the south side of the San Jaime to the 1150 spot, everything to the north
has remained cooler and the south side has been 85 degrees. (Dream Lover)
BAIT: Mackerel and Mullet at the normal $2 per bait. (Let’s Keep It That Way)
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Billfishing remained a bit slow this week with many boats not seeing a fish at all. As
the water continues to warm, the Striped Marlin that remain in the area seem to go off their feed.
There have been a few Sailfish caught this week, and they have been nice sized, but again, not
everyone is finding them. The Sailfish that are being found seem to be close to shore, within 5
miles. Off shore there are Blue Marlin being found, but for most of the boats it has been a scratch
week, you have had to scratch real hard to come up with a Billfish. From 15 to 25 miles to the
east and south seems to have been the favorite area, as there has been lots of bait around,
including big Squid to three feet in length. Marlin candy! (It Should Have Been Easy)
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Fish of the week yet again. Those boats that have gotten into the
Yellowfin have done well on fish to 45 pounds, with most of the fish just on the edge between
football size (to 15 pounds) and small school fish (25 -35 pounds). Cedar plugs, small feathers in
blue and white seem to trip their trigger this week. Reports were that many of these fish were
feeding hard on flyers, and some of the better catches were had by guys rigging the very small
softhead birds with hooks and using them as lures, run 150 feet or more back, and pulled at high
speeds up to 14 knots. I have unconfirmed reports of a late afternoon bite on these same schools,
with the fish running much bigger, to 180 pounds. It seems to happen well after all the fleet and
normal charter boats leave and the bite has been on live bait run back in the north forty, up to 300
yards back, and pulled across the front of the Porpoise, and on large Blue Marlin lures run the
same distance once the baits have been eaten up. This is an unconfirmed report because I did not
see the fish myself and have not been able to get to talk to another Captain who was supposed to
have been in the same place doing the same thing, so take it for what I offered it as! (Tennessee
Waltz)
DORADO: No change in the Dorado situation this week so I am just repeating last weeks report
here. The Dorado were scattered for almost everyone, just like last week, but a few boats were
able to get into some nice fish. Frigate birds working and turtles on the surface were some of the
keys the captains were looking for, and the first one on the scene got good results. Live bait was
a key factor, being the go-to for working Frigates and turtles, and also as a drop-back for fish
picked up on the troll. (Bitter They Are, Harder They Fall)
WAHOO: Same as above, but I think the bite will pick up as we near the full moon. A few fish
were found, a few more caught, but not in any quantity nor consistency. (Only Love)
NEARSHORE: No change from last week, Pangas were working just off the beach for
Roosterfish and having some luck with them, most of the fish being in the 20-30 pound class. The
Jack Crevalle were in there as well and some of the boats were able to pick up Dorado in the surf.
Most of the Pangas were venturing offshore early in the week looking for Dorado and Tuna, and
some of them had good luck. (Beginning To Feel Like Home)
NOTES: I spoke too early last week, the Purse Seiners are still here and we now have four in the
area. Guess the L.A. Times had an article on the front page of the sports section with a picture of
a Whale and Calf caught up in a gill net up in the Sea of Cortez. The weather continues to be hot
and humid, the fish continue to bite, and my boat is out of the water for the week for new shaft
logs and bottom paint. I will continue to ask the anglers and Captains how they are doing and
next week I hope I have another good, accurate and honest fish report for you. Until then, Tight
lines! This weeks report was written to the music of Anne Murray from the 2002 EMI
compilation, “Love Songs”
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