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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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| About a third of male fish in British rivers are changing sex due to pollution, |
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| Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back to at least the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic period about 40,000 years ago. Isotopic analysis of the remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year-old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. |
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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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| If we’re going to be strict about it, jellyfish and starfish are not really fish because they don’t have a backbone. As a correction, many public aquariums are now using the terms “sea jellies” and “sea stars”. |
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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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| 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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May 1, 2004; 02:24AM - In-Depth Spinnerbaiting
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Category: Fishing tips and tricks
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Author Name: Steven Narup
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
When most people are asked, what is a spinnerbait? They will more then likely reply with this, it has a hook with a wire attached to it, with a lead head and a silicone skirt, with either one or two blades. The majority of the time they will automatically describe the clothes pin spinnerbait. Well in essence, there is much more to that. There is more then just that style of spinnerbait, this is what most people do not understand. Two other spinnerbait types are just as productive when presented in the right situation. These two baits are the tail-spinner and the in-line spinner. These baits are slowly catching on to the clothespin spinnerbait.
There are quite a few styles of spinnerbaits, including tail spinners, in-line spinners, and clothespin style spinnerbaits. Each style has there own time and place. The most widely used of these spinnerbait choices, is the clothes pin style.
Tail spinners can be a great choice when fishing for smallmouth bass and or finicky largemouth due to the baits compact size.
In-line Spinners became obsolete for many years by most bass anglers. Until now, they are slowly catching on to both Smallmouth and Largemouth anglers.
In-line spinners are a great bait when the fish are active but they can also be great when presented it other situations. Most people use in-line spinners when the fish are in a negative feeding mood, due to the baits smaller more compact size. There is one problem with in-line spinners, which keep the majority of people away from them, the fact that they will give you line twist. To help with this scenario try a high quality stainless steel ball bearing, this will cut back on the line twist. A ball bearing helps prevent line twist like so, when the bait starts to spin and twist in the water column the line will most likely twist without a ball bearing. However, if you have a ball bearing connecting the mainline to the leader, when the bait twists the ball bearing spins the line back so that the line will not twist as easily. If by any chance you do have line twist, let out a couple hundred feet of line into the water and turn your trolling motor on, this will get most of the twist out of your line. Another trick is the tie your line to a heavy object and stretch the line out by tightening your drag and pulling the line.
The clothespin style spinnerbait comes in many different combinations including blade size and style and different size heads. There are Steel and Titanium wires. The Titanium version is nearly indestructible, and needs little or no tuning at all. Titanium also lets off quite a bit more vibration then steel. The heads on clothespin spinnerbaits are starting to be produced with different materials as well, such as Lead, and Tungsten. Spinnerbait anglers are slowly starting to make the switch to Tungsten spinnerbaits, due to the fact the head is almost 3/4 the size of lead, making the bait work through cover almost effortlessly.
In general, spinnerbaits are a very versatile lure, which is one main reason why most bass anglers use them. Bass anglers have been using them for many years now and they still produce fish as if they came out yesterday, you just have to know the different ways to fish the bait.
Tail spinners can be great finesse baits and they can be fished shallow or deep, because the body of the bait is lead, with a little blade on the back. The majority of tail spinners come with a single treble hook, making them not as easy as the clothespin style spinnerbait when trying to fish through thick cover. To work the tail-spinner you can just reel the bait back to the boat, by doing this you will reduce the odds of catching more fish, but it does work. Instead, you should give the bait a little action. You can yo-yo the bait by letting the bait fall to the bottom, then pick your rod tip up to about a 10 oclock position, just keep repeating this procedure unless you are not producing. On the other hand, you can do a combination of things, to give the fish something different to look at. You can yo-yo the bait during part of the cast, then reel, or twitch it back to the boat. One last way to fish this bait would be to vertical jig it, in deep, clear, cold water. This technique will work in different conditions, but works best in deep, clear, cold water. When you vertical jig a tail spinner you cast the bait out a few feet and let the bait fall vertically, on a semi-slack line then you slowly lift your rod tip and shake the bait, let the bait fall and keep repeating this process. I like to use baitcasting gear when fishing tail spinners, but there are times when you need to fish lighter baits and that is when spinning gear comes into play. I mainly fish Pflueger rods and reels. The rods are very nice they come with premium Fuji guides and a Fuji reel seat, making the rod one nice package. I really like the Trion Baitcasting reel because they come with five ball bearings, one roller bearing and a smooth multi-disc main gear applied star drag system, making this a great reel for mostly any type of fishing. The reel is great if you want to fish a lighter line, because you can set your drag and the drag is so smooth that when a fish pulls there will not be as much stress on the line itself.
In-line spinners have been around for over fifty years, and they are still going strong, Mepps has been in the in-line spinner business for a while now, and they still sell great. Most anglers do not use in-line spinners while fishing for bass instead they are using bigger in-line spinners fishing for pike or musky. However, I know they are missing a lure that can catch bass like it can pike and musky. I have had great success fishing in-line spinners in creek openings, where the creek empties into the main river, fishing for smallmouth bass. In-line spinners can be worked shallow or deep, they come with or without tails, painted blades or non-painted blades. When you work an in-line spinner, the best possible way to fish these is to reel them in. If you try to jerk the bait, you will lose a lot of action, because in-line spinners are not made for jerking. In-line spinners let off a lot of flash, and maximum flash happens when you just reel it in. When I fish in-line spinners I like to use spinning gear preferably the Pflueger Trion spinning rod in a 6 foot medium action, with a Pflueger Trion spinning reel, because they come in a 6:3:1 gear ratio which will allow you to speed up the bait without getting as tired out. They are very smooth and cast light baits a mile.
Clothespin spinnerbaits are one of your more versatile baits in the spinnerbait family. You can work them quite a few different ways, and give the bait action if you desire. When I work a safety pin spinnerbait, I really like to use a Pflueger Trion Baitcasting rod, anywhere from 6-foot medium to a 7-foot medium heavy action. The 6-foot rod will help you when you want to make accurate casts, and the 7-foot rod will help when you want to get distance with your bait. With the Trion rods, they are extra sensitive high modulus graphite, which will give you the ability to feel the blades turn on your bait. I will throw the bait on 15-20 pound test Berkley Trilene XL. When you work a safety pin spinnerbait, you can just reel it in, but again you are going to be missing some fish. When I fish a safety pin style spinnerbait, I sometimes jerk the bait, doing this gives the bait sort of an injured baitfish presentation. You can also let the bait flutter down, then you pick up your rod tip, and repeat, doing this gives the bait a yo-yo type effect. If I am going to be fishing a spinnerbait in cold water, I will look for anything that lets off heat because this will warm up the water just a little bit, fish do feel the difference, and I will fish the bait around that. If the fish are just coming up and nipping at the bait, you may want to add a trailer hook for extra insurance. I will usually throw a spinnerbait with a trailer hook in any tournament situation. If the fish are coming up and hitting that bait and not taking it you can use a soft plastic trailer, I prefer the three-inch Bear Claw Grub from Bearpaws Custom Handpoured Baits. I like the Bearpaws grub because it comes with the scent baked right in to the bait, this will give you a definite edge on other anglers, because you will not need to use scent on the exterior of the bait.
Spinnerbaits are a great and versatile lure that have made a lot of many for companies in the fishing industry. The only thing I can that I can leave you with say is next time you go out on the water, I dare you to tie on a spinnerbait, and I know that you will not regret it.
To contact Bearpaws Custom Handpoured Baits please contact John Olsen at http://www.bearpawshandpouredbaits.com. If you are interested in any of the reels that Pflueger has to offer please go to http://www.pfluegerfishing.com
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Dec 9, 2007; 09:35PM - Custom Fit Boat Cover
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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.
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Oct 3, 2011; 12:21PM - 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
Sept. 26 - Oct. 2, 2011
WEATHER: Another week of hot weather following the heat of last week! Two more weeks before traditionally it starts cooling down again. This week we once again saw most days of over 100 degrees in town. Most anglers were happy to get on the water where it was at least 10 degrees cooler. We had a few days of partly cloudy skies, but the clouds for the most part were high in the sky. On Wednesday we did get a bit of a surprise as the clouds moved right in on us and spit some rain here in town. Just to the north a bit there was actually a pretty good downpour and of course, there was plenty in the mountains.
WATER: The Cortes side of the Cape this week was mostly 88 degrees out to the 1150 and the 95 spot and then it dropped a degree to 87 to the east of there, not a big difference, but there you go. On the Pacific side there was a band of cooler 85 degree water along the beach extending out a mile or two, then it rose to 86-87 degrees until you got a few miles to the west of the San Jaime and the Golden Gate Banks, then it dropped to 86 degrees. As you can see, there were no strong temperature breaks out there this week. Surface conditions were pretty darn good except for the large swells at the start of the week, a result of the passing of Hurricane Hillary to the west. The rest of the week saw reduced swells spaced far apart and only light wind chop for the most part.
BAIT: Caballito, Mullet and Sardines were the live bait available with the bigger baits at the usual $3 each and just a few of the Sardinas at $25 a scoop up in the Palmilla area. Sardinas were hard to come by early in the week due to the large swells hitting the beach.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: Of course the big news of the week on the Marlin front was the capture of a fish variously called a Blue and then a Black, between 855 and 1,213 pounds. Maybe someday we will get a real, certified scale that can weigh fish like this installed at the marina. For more information on this fish go to my blog at www.captgeo.wordpress.com. I did not hear of any other large Marlin brought in or fought this week but I am sure there were a few more. I do know that there were a scattering of Sailfish around as well as some Striped Marlin. Not large numbers, nor large fish, but there were some billfish out there to be caught. One of the best days I heard of was a 3 for 5 release on Striped Marlin in one day, all on live bait, all on the Pacific side. I heard late yesterday afternoon a credible rumor that some big blue and blacks are starting to move in! Just in time for the tournaments! But I have not seen any myself this week.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: this week was a hot one for the Yellowfin Tuna, last week was a cold one! And then, just to top things off, the bite turned off on Saturday! There were scattered schools of porpoise holding Yellowfin all week on the Pacific side and to the south as well as the west, basicly they were scattered all over the place. We had clients who caught Tuna on Friday early in the morning that would have worn them out if they had stayed with the school. Back on the water on Saturday and could not find one fish! Word is that there have been quite a few Purse Seiners working out there, but to have that many fish gone overnight has to be something other than just the commercial guys.
DORADO: Once again the fish of the week, but just because the Tuna bite was not a steady one. The Dorado were steady as every time you went out you could catch them. Most of them were not large, averaging perhaps 10 pounds, but there were plenty of them to be found close to the beach on the Pacific side. Just like last week, a few boats got into schools of fish that were larger with an average of 15-18 pounds, but there were not as many of them and they were found a bit farther offshore.
WAHOO: The new moon phase was really quiet for Wahoo and I only heard of two fish caught. One of them was small at 20 pounds, I am not sure of the size of the other fish, and they were caught close to shore by boats that were targeting Dorado.
INSHORE: Roosterfish, Needle-fish, Bonita, Skipjack, Dorado with a scattering of Grouper and Snapper rounded out the fish inshore this week. There were no large numbers of any of them except for the Dorado, and there were plenty of them to keep anglers happy. Many of the Pangas went offshore in search of Tuna this week instead of focusing on the inshore fish. Early in the week this was really the case since we had the large swells hitting the coastline.
FISH RECIPE: My recipe has been taking too much space so if you want to see it, check out my wordpress blog a little later in the week, or subscribe to the blog and you will receive an email as soon as I post it.
NOTES: Well, so much for the hope of a Seahawk perfect losing season, guess we now have to hope for the team to get it together and win a few. I was really hoping for first pick in next years draft, sigh. We had a busy week this past week and there were plenty of fish out there as you can tell from the list above. Some big Tuna, big Marlin and plenty of good eating Dorado. If it were not for the heat things would be perfect! My music for this report was once again (for the 12th time) Brian Flynn! He will be playing at our favorite bar, Tanga-Tanga this afternoon after the football games! Southern Rock at it's finest! I'll take a few pictures to post on the blog later on.
Until next week, tight lines!
I will be posting more to my blog now http://captgeo.wordpress.com, please go to 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
October 2, 2011
The Eastern Pacific is now calm, late season now for tropical storms to develop,
though they have been known to pop up quickly at this time of year, presently the
weather is great, still quite warm and humid, light winds, with cooler nights.
Hurricane Hilary passed within 400 miles of Cabo San Lucas, before eventually
downgrading over cooler waters, ocean swells did increase the first part of the
week, but have since already dropped, only scattered reports of measureable
rainfall.
Significant increase in numbers of anglers arriving this past week, it seems the
fall season is starting early this year. With high stake tournaments just weeks
away, anticipation is high. Local teams are beginning to scout out potential jackpot
winning fishing grounds and with news of the monster 1,000 lb. class blue marlin
landed this past week out of Cabo, this has got the adrenaline flowing even more.
Water temperatures continue to average higher than normal, most of the region is all
in the 85 to 90 degree range, warmest areas in the direction of Los Frailes. The
passing of Hurricane Hilary created choppy seas, turned over waters closer to shore
and really pushed in a powerful current, this contributed to a few days of tougher
all around fishing action. Just the past couple of days the conditions have settled
and fleets are reporting improved counts of dorado, with yellowfin tuna and other
species also in the mix.
Finding sufficient supplies of sardinas became more difficult in the higher surf
conditions, with most of the schooling baitfish now congregated off the rocky
beaches from Palmilla Point to San Maria. Anglers are also jigging up some jacks and
moonfish inside the marina channel.
Action spread out more, charters were heading out in different directions, more
numbers of dorado were accounted for while trolling lures and various baitfish,
limits were not uncommon, sizes ranged up to 30 pounds, most fish were in the ten
pound class. The majority of the more consistent action was found from Santa Maria
to the Iman Banks.
Tuna activity dropped way off during the increased swell and current activity, but
the past couple days the yellowfin have made a showing off of the La Fortuna area,
finicky to strike, but some charters landed as many as four yellowfin tuna, weights
ranged from 15 to 60 pounds. Lots of aggressive skipjack, scattered schools of
dorado and an occasional sailfish or marlin hook up as well. There was one 130 pound
yellowfin landed from a panga that was slow trolling a larger live bait in the deep
channel just offshore of the marina entrance at first light, not an everyday
occurrence.
Not much steady bottom action found, mainly because of the ragging current, which
made it nearly impossible to reach bottom. Now with the slacking current we expect
to see more encounters with dogtooth snapper and amberjack.
Early in the week there was some good roosterfish action found right of the marina
jetties, anglers were trolling with moonfish, catch and release on many roosters
that were as large as 30 pounds. Roosterfish up to fifty pounds were landed in
recent days off of the offshore rock piles, a bit unusual, but something we have
starting to see more often, roosterfish normally patrol inshore waters, we now see
they will travel further offshore in search of a food source.
Only an occasional wahoo now being landed, these fish are still sluggish in the
warmer waters, we did hear of a few more wahoo being hooked off of Cabo San Lucas,
same areas where dorado were found. The Gordo Banks area also reported a handful of
wahoo, sizes up to 45 pounds.
The combined panga fleets launching from La Playita/Puerto Los Cabos sent out
approximately 105 charters for the week, with anglers accounted for: 4 striped
marlin, 7 sailfish, 1 black marlin, 5 wahoo, 188 dorado, 48 yellowfin tuna, 7
dogtooth snapper, 9 amberjack, 28 roosterfish, 1 pompano, 26 pargo, 22 bonito and 18
cabrilla.
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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