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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 do not have blood. Their blood is actually filtered sea water. |
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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 Apr 26, 2024
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18 Feb 2021 - 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
December 20, 2020
The local International airport has been very busy this past week, hundreds
of travelers are arriving to enjoy the holidays in the warm sunshine of Los
Cabos. Despite all these people arriving, not many of them have been taking
advantage of the fishing, so fleets have not been overly busy at all, even
though the all-around fishing action was very good, especially considering
that we are in the midst of winter season. High temperatures have been
reaching 80 degrees, mostly clear sunny skies, though early morning have
been in the upper 50’s, so remember to bring appropriate clothing. Ocean
water temperatures have been averaging 74 to 77 degrees, a bit warmer than
we expect for this time of year. Lots of whales are now arriving, giving
visitors opportunities to watch these magnificent mammals in their natural
habitat.
Anglers are now using sardinas and ballyhoo for bait, with limited numbers
of caballito and we have yet to see the large schools of mackerel and
sardineta arrive on local bait grounds. Most charters are now concentrated
on the fishing grounds from off of Chileno, Palmilla, Gordo Banks, Punta
Gorda, Cardona, La Fortuna and Iman. Favorable ocean conditions have been
found on these grounds, though further to the north the water has been
greenish and cooler. We have still been dealing with north winds, in the
normal cycles, a few days of gusty conditions, then we have two or three
calm days before the pattern repeats itself. Even on the days it has blown,
often this did not happen until later in the morning and anglers were able
to find good action closer to shore in more protected areas.
Dorado were found in good numbers, mixed sizes, we have seen larger sized
fish this past week, some were in the 20 to 25 lb. range, we have not seen
these big bulls on our local grounds for some time. The dorado were hitting
on various baits and trolled lures. Lots of sierra now encountered
throughout the inshore zone, some of these to over 5 lb., striking readily
on the live sardinas, but also on small hoochies and raplalas.
Tuna action was spottier, though they are being seen and are definitely in
the area, just have not been whiling to bite on a consistent basis. We did
see a handful of nicer yellowfin brought in, weighing in the 60 to 90 lb.
range, also some medium sized 20 to 40 lb. fish accounted for. There were
other reports of larger cow sized tuna breezing the surface around the
Gordo Banks, but we did not hear of any of these big fish hooked into or
landed.
More numbers of striped marlin starting to be found on our local grounds,
as it is now the time that these billfish shift in the direction of the Sea
of Cortez, we also saw at least a coupe of sailfish in recent days. With
the surface action being the main thing now, we did not see many of the
limited numbers of charters even trying to look for bottom species.
Wahoo were abundant on the inshore grounds now, particularly Punta Gorda,
Cardon, La Fortuna, also on the Inner Gordo Banks. This season we have seen
more juvenile sized wahoo than we can ever remember, average sized wahoo
that are being brought in are in the 5 to 15 lb. range, we are only
occasionally seeing any fish in the 30 to 40 lb. class.
On a direr note is the progression of spear fishing we have seen in recent
years, it seems each year we are seeing more and more numbers of these
operators who advertise these world famous grounds and are making a big
business out of this. The major issue is that they do not have any manners
at all, in past years spear fishermen would concentrate on other grounds
and during different hours. Now they concentrate their activities on the
same fragile inshore fisheries where rod and reel angler are. This region
cannot sustain such pressure on these same grounds and it is unrealistic
that they simply are able to exploit this activity using the same type of
fishing license that rod and reel anglers use, this is not the same sport,
these people often target the larger female home guard species, that are
too weary or wise to chase down a trolled lure or baited hook, but will
simply swim towards the pointed spear to investigate and guard their
breeding grounds, only to be shot in the head. We also see that many of
these fish are being sold illegally, as authorities just seem to turn their
heads in other directions. It seems that some control is much needed,
perhaps such as dear, elk, moose tags and other hunting sports do and
certain zones that they can use and others that are off limits.
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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