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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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| Not all animals with the word fish in their names count as fish. |
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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 Apr 25, 2024
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23 Mar 2014 - GORDO BANKS PANGAS San Jose del Cabo March 22, 2014
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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
March 22, 2014
Anglers -
The Spring season has now officially begun, weather conditions have been hard to
beat, warm and sunny skies, with high temperatures near 80 degrees. Winds have been
swirling now for the past week, first from the north and then out of the south, this
has created some choppy ocean conditions at times. Ocean temperatures have averaged
from 71 on the Pacific, up to 74 degrees off of San Jose del Cabo.
This is now peak time for spring break vacations, scores of families and hundreds
are college students are arriving in the Los Cabos area, though this past week we
did not see as many anglers, of course windy conditions certainly convinced some
people to change plans. With the passing of the latest full moon we saw the offshore
action for striped marlin slow way down, these fish were now more scattered and not
being seen in any numbers.
The majority of the dorado being encountered recently were found closer to shore,
this is where concentrations of half beaks (ballyhoo) were schooling. Trolling
various baitfish was the most successful for these gamefish, though some anglers did
report catching dorado on lures as well. Sizes were averaging 5 to 15 pounds, with a
handful of larger specimens accounted for. Most charters were fortunate to average
about one dorado per day.
No action on yellowfin tuna being reported, only a few fish reported, mixed in with
bonito off the high spots from Iman to San Luis Banks, Yellowfin have been holding
in this region through the winter, though with the lack of sardinas to entice them,
we have not seen any consistent action on these tuna since the Fall. The only live
baitfish that has been plentiful has been caballito, rigging fresh dead ballyhoo has
been another option.
Off of the high spots, where anglers were jigging over the structure, bonito was the
most common species being landed; these feisty fighters were running in the 4 to 8
pound class. Only an occasional amberjack or yellowtail is being hooked into, most
of these striking on yo-yo style jigs and ranged from 20 to 35 pounds. There are big
yellowtails now on the Outer Gordo Banks, lots of bonito on these same grounds,
striking on the iron jigs, drifting live caballito down deep can be productive for
the big yellows, though a problem has been there are many hammerhead sharks lurking
down deep on these grounds, hard to stay away from them while trying for the jacks.
These rock piles also produced some cabrilla and snapper, though that massive red
snapper run during the red crab bloom of previous week has not redeveloped, need
these winds to reside for that to happen. We are in transition time now, still
unpredictable as to what can happen with the weather conditions from day to day.
With the water temperatures holding a bit warmer than normal, baitfish migrations
are off and so are typically gamefish patterns. Wahoo have been found though the
winter, they are still being hooked into practically daily, though a bit sporadic,
most of this action was reported on the inshore grounds from Punta Gorda to La
Fortuna, water depths from 100 to 150 ft., strong winds last week turned over this
water some and anglers found varied success.
We are still seeing numerous whales, though surely these will be the final weeks of
this activity, many of these mammals have already begun their northern migration.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita, Puerto Los Cabos Marina sent
out approximately 78 charters for this past week, with anglers accounting for a fish
count of: 8 striped marlin, 5 wahoo, 2 yellowfin tuna, 9 yellowtail, 16 amberjack,
395 bonito, 6 jack crevalle, 7 sierra, 42 dorado, 24 roosterfish, 18 cabrilla and 12
hammerhead sharks (released).
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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