| Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef. |
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| The toxin in puffer fish is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide. |
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| Strange fish facts |
| Many Fish can taste without even opening their mouths. |
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| Fish Facts |
| Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales |
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| American Lobsters have longer life spans than both cats and dogs, living over 20 years. |
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| When you need a good reason to go fishing! |
| Going fishing outdoors increases your vitamin D, which helps regulate the amount of calcium and phosphate in your body, keeping your bones and teeth healthy. It boosts your immune system and has been linked to fighting depression. |
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| Some fishes lay their eggs on land instead of in the water |
| The mudskipper even takes this further, even mating on land. These fish burrow and lay their eggs in mudflats before returning to the water. |
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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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| God Bless The Troops |
| We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. - George Orwell |
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| One fish is called a fish. Two or more are still called fish. |
| However than one species of fish are called fishes. |
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| Did you know that |
About 60% of US Anglers practice catch and release.
Women make up about 33% of fresh water anglers and
about 85% of fresh water anglers begin fishing at 12 years old. |
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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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Feb 26, 2018; 07:04AM
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Category: Sportfishing Charters
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Name for Contacts: PESCADORA
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Phone: 877 898 4999
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City: Quepos
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Aboard Pescadora and fish with
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Costa Rica.Pescadora specializes in
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Rica. Pescadora is a 41-foot Ronin
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April 2004 Best fishing photo contest
$50 free fishing tackle for the photo with the most votes. Contest open to all anglers 8 contestants minimum to start the contest. Sponsored by Emperor Tackle
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Jul 25, 2023; 03:05PM - Almond Panko Crusted Tilapia
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Category: Fish Recipes
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Author Name: Natalie
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
Ingredients
• 1/2 cup lemon pepper panko bread crumbs
• 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/3 cup sliced almonds
• 2 large eggs
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon dried parsley
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 5 (6 ounce) tilapia filets (Any white perch style fillet will work.)
• 3 tablespoons butter
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Tip&Trick Description 2:
Directions
1. In a blender or food processor, combine panko, Parmesan cheese, and almonds. Process
until roughly ground; place into a shallow dish and set aside. In another shallow dish, beat
eggs with a fork; set aside. Combine flour, parsley, garlic powder, and pepper in a bowl; set
aside.
2. Heat butter or margarine in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
3. Lightly coat tilapia filets with flour mixture. Dip tilapia in egg, then press into
panko mixture.
4. Add fish to heated skillet; cook until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork,
approximately 3 minutes per side. Transfer tilapia to a platter and serve.
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Tip&Trick Description 3:
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 30 mins
Servings: 5
Cook's Note:
Nonstick cooking spray or margarine may be used instead of butter.
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Dec 9, 2007; 09:35PM - Custom Fit Boat Cover
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Price: Varies
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Apr 25, 2011; 12:00PM - Cabo Bite Report
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Category: Mexico Cabo San Lucas
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Author Name: George Landrum
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FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
www.flyhooker.com
http://captgeo.wordpress.com/
Cabo Fish Report
April 18-24, 2011
WEATHER: What great weather we had for Easter week! Our daytime highs managed to reach just over the mid 90's for a few days and the evening lows managed to touch the mid 60's, really nice stuff! There was almost no cloud cover so it was nice and sunny all week.
WATER: Good news! We are seeing a warming trend and that means that the fishing is getting better. As the reports below show, warmer water most of the time means better fishing, until it gets too warm, of course. As of the end of the week the water on the Pacific side had warmed from the 62 degrees we had last week to 64-67 degrees. The only issue we had this week was surface conditions, as for part of the week evening winds made it a little rough to go offshore in the mornings. Inshore it was quite a bit better with just swells and not so much chop. On the Cortez side the warm water that had eased in up off of Vinorama continued it move in our direction, During the middle of the day we were getting water temperatures in the high 70's, dropping to the low 70's at night. This warm water moved south to the Gorda Banks and just a bit south of there, winding it's way to the 1150. Surface conditions were great as well with only small swells and a bit of wind chop later in the day.
BAIT: It was still difficult to get any good supply of decent large baits here, most of the stuff the bait boats had were look-downs and grunts, there were only a few Mackerel and Caballito to be found. Of course it was the usual $3 per bait, even for the poor baits. Sardinas were available here, but they were more expensive than getting them to the north. Most of the boats that wanted Sardinas were traveling to Palmilla to get them. There were large ones and small ones, and whichever you wanted were $25 to $30 a scoop.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: We finally have some good news to report about the billfish! There were Striped Marlin found at the tail end of the week before last, but the bite was still an on-off situation, and I did not want to really say much since only a few boats were doing well. So.....this week it finally went off, great Striped Marlin fishing was to be had on the Gorda Banks to the 1150 and all the way down to the 95 spot. There were jumpers, tailers and feeders all through the area and they were finally hungry. While before a good catch for the better boats was three or four fish, this week the better results were in double digits! Plenty of fish were found to throw baits at, if you had the baits. Many of the boats were pulling rigged ballyhoo or tuna belly strips and getting bit. These fish were also going after lures. A few guys were saying things were wide open, but that is just in comparison to what we have experienced for the past three months. Average boats were releasing a couple of fish a day, whereas in a wide open bite everyone is in double digits! Anyway, another bright spot on the billfish front is the appearance of Swordfish. Most of them have been found up off of Vinorama and Punta Gorda on the surface. There have been several caught every day and more lost. One boat caught three over two days, all on the surface. I have no idea how long this is going to last but last week it was good!
YELLOWFIN TUNA: Another bright spot for the week was the showing of some Yellowfin, finally. The 95 spot to the 1150 had scattered schools of footballs with some larger fish to 40 pounds in the mix. Of course the first boats to the schools did the best, but the bite did not totally shut down and most anglers were able to get one or two into the fish box. Farther up the coast off of the Gorda Banks there were scattered schools as well, and some of them held fish to 100 pounds. A slightly different method was needed on the larger fish, just trolling lures or chumming with Sardinas did not work. Setting out a kite or using a helium balloon to get the bait well away from the boat brought some bites from these larger fish. Boats that were willing to brave the choppy water on the Pacific side of the Cape got into some larger footballs, to 25 pounds, just to the south of the San Jaime Bank, but the choppy water made it difficult to follow the pods of Porpoise used to find the action.
DORADO: We finally saw a few Dorado hit the docks this past week. The warm water that moved in brought everything with it and Dorado were not an exception. While not there in great numbers as the water is still a bit cool, there were fish caught that weighed up to 20 pounds. Most of them were in the 10-12 pound class however, and were mixed in with both the Yellowfin and the Marlin. If the warm water remains, or gets even warmer, there is a chance the bite on Dorado will get better. I am not going to say that for sure though, because if there is one thing I have learned in over 35 years fishing offshore is to never predict! I just say what happened, I can't see into the future, if I could I'd be rich!
WAHOO: I saw more orange flags flying this week than last week, but I did not see any Wahoo hit the docks. That does not mean there were not any caught, after all with that warmer water and our just coming off of the full moon there should be Wahoo out there. I just did not see any of them, and none of my good friends told me of catching any. So, probably most of the orange flags I saw were for Sierra, but there is a good chance some of them were for Wahoo.
INSHORE: It was nice to have a good variety of inshore fishing to choose from. If you decided to go up the Pacific coastline you had a good chance to get into decent Yellowtail. Up off of the rocky points working iron in water to 200 feet resulted in some really steady action on fish to 25 pounds. One of my buddies said he did well with 10 fish between 20-28 pounds in two hours, with most of them coming right off the bottom, and lost a few more that rocked him. (good going Cubby!) If you decided to go after Sierra instead of Yellowtail all you had to do was go up the Cortez coastline a little way. Sardinas for chum brought the fish around, but the best bites were had by using dead ones, drifted back on a bit of wire leader. Mono leader got bit more often but also resulted in a lot few sharp-toothed fish in the boat. A few grouper were found by the Pangas as well as a few snapper.
FISH RECIPE: Simple is better, and much faster in food preparation. One of the simplest recipes I have for fish involves the use of just oil, salt and pepper. We had Sierra fillets Saturday night courtesy of one of our clients and as it was late when we got home I wanted something quick and simple, but with a twist. Sierra have no scales so I left the skin on but trimmed out the bloodline and ribs. Any fish with scales, get rid of them first. I then brushed the fish with avocado oil, then a light touch of sesame oil. Dust on the salt and pepper, oil the grill and away we go! Combined with some french fries and a small salad of tomato wedges, romaine, black olives and crumbled blue cheese and we had a meal fit for a king!
NOTES: What a great week! Wonderful weather, the fishing really picking up on all fronts and lots of people in for the Easter week. It has been quite a while since we have seen the fishing this good and it has everyone excited. If you want to go offshore for billfish, they are there. If you want Tuna there is a very good chance at them, and the possibility of a big one. Yellowtail and Sierra continue to bite for those that want some meat on the table or just don't feel like spending a full day fishing. It really does not get much better than this! If you were hesitating about coming down to fish, go ahead and do it. Of course there is no guarantee that the fishing will continue to be this good when you get here, but then again there never is a guarantee about fishing! This weeks report was written to some sounds I haven't heard in a while, but one of my wife's favorites. The CD is a 1986 Chrysalis Records release of Billy Idol titled “Whiplash Smile”. Good sounds! Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now, please go to http://captgeo.wordpress.com/ and subscribe, you will be sent a notice every time I post a new article. Please feel free to send suggestions or if you have any ideas for articles. Thanks George
Gordo Banks Pangas
San Jose del Cabo
April 25, 2011
Anglers -
Vacationers visiting the Los Cabos area are being welcomed with ideal spring
time weather conditions, clear sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s. The
southern winds slacked up in recent and this made for calmer seas. Ocean
currents have been swift and changing rapidly, water temperatures have ranged
from 68 degrees off of the Pacific side of Cabo San Lucas to 78 degrees offshore
in the direction of the 1150 Bank and the Cabrillo Seamount.
Anglers have been patiently waiting for offshore action to turn on, starting to
see some signs of encouragement the past week, more porpoise activity, at times
being associated with yellowfin tuna schools. Strong numbers of striped marlin
being spotted, even though the hook up percentage was low, fish not aggressively
feeding on the surface now. An occasional wahoo strike was being reported from
these porpoise pods as well, most of which were the larger sized dark porpoise.
At this rate of activity, if weather patterns stabilize in the coming weeks, we
could be in for wide open action.
The big talk around town now from offshore anglers has been the daytime
swordfish encountered the past couple of weeks. This has been mainly a deal
being targeted on larger sportfishers, reports of over a dozen swords landed
this past week alone, some weighing as large as 350 pounds. These fish were
spotted on the surface on the fishing grounds outside of San Jose del Cabo and
towards the East Cape, not that far out, 15 to 20 miles from shore. This has got
to be one of the better bites on the swordfish in this area in many years, not
many places in the world offer such chances at baiting up one of these elusive
gladiators on the surface during the daytime. It will be interesting to see if
these numbers hold up through the month. East Cape charters reported that the
gamefish they are now catching offshore are plugged with medium sized squids,
particularly the striped marlin. The season’s first quality sized dorado are now
appearing in the counts off of that region. Squid is always a favorite food
source for all pelagic gamefish, especially so for swordfish, feeding at depths
during the dark hours and lazily sunning on the surface during the daytime, in
the digestive mode, but still whiling to strike various available baits, like
caballito, bolito, skipjack etc..
The majority of the day charters are now finding that the most consistent all
around action is closer to shore. A variety of species such as sierra,
roosterfish, jack crevalle, pompano, pargo, cabrilla, amberjack, yellowtail,
grouper and others were being found near the rocky beach stretches. Drift
fishing over the rock piles, using both bait and yo-yo iron jigs have been
producing a mixed bag of species, no huge numbers, all good eating, with a
handful of grouper to over 30 pounds. The Palmilla Point and Red Hill area was
one of the most popular this past week, this is also where supplies of sardinas
are being netted in the a.m. A few striped marlin were even hooked in this spot,
within a half mile of shore, greenish waters, apparently some bait source has
been attracting these billfish in close.
The combined panga fleets launching out of La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 66 charters for the week and anglers reported a fish count of: 8
hammerhead shark, 8 yellowfin tuna, 3 dorado, 21 yellowtail,11 amberjack, 76
pargo, 65 cabrilla, 10 grouper, 244 sierra, 18 roosterfish, 8 jack crevalle and
8 pompano.
Good Fishing, Eric
GORDO BANKS PANGAS
Eric Brictson
Owner/Operator
800 4081199
Los Cabos 1421147
ericgordobanks@yahoo.com
www.gordobanks.com
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