| 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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| Did you know? |
| 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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Oct 8, 2008; 02:13AM
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Category: Fishing Tackle Wanted
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Name for Contacts: Frank
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Looking for Rapala Rattlin Fat Raps and
Rapala Rattlin Deep Downs. Will buy at
reasonable price. Doesn't matter what the
color, thanks
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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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Elizabeth Hauck55 lbsRooster Fish |
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May 19, 2003; 09:01AM - Circle Hooks for Billfish
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Category: Trolling techniques
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Author Name: Carlos Morales
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
What are “circle hooks”? To a fisherman seeing one for the first time you kind of wonder why anyone would use them or took time to invent them. They are similar in size to the more common “J” shaped hook but the opening is smaller and the barb points toward the body of the hook forming a circular shape, hence their name. At first glance it would appear fish would seldom be caught with circle hooks because the barb points the wrong way and the smaller than usual opening would difficult hooking anything.
Surprise, surprise, first impressions are wrong. Depending which study an angler consults, circle hooks have been shown to be as effective or more effective than “J” hooks for catching all types of fish including billfish. Some studies say fishermen catch 60% more fish, others 100% more fish with circle hooks than with “J” hooks. Catching more fish is a bonus but the real advantage of circle hooks is that they are designed to hook a fish in the lip or corner of the mouth and this happens about 95% of the time, preventing “deep hooking” and “foul hooking”. Removing a circle hook is fast and easy, take a pair of pliers and rotate the hook out of the mouth.
A “J” hook works by attaching itself wherever soft tissue is available. Normally, as soon as a fish bites, the first thing an angler does is “set the hook” by swiftly pulling the rod up and reeling in some line. This violent maneuver guarantees (anglers wish) that the barb of the hook will penetrate some soft tissue inside the mouth thus hooking the fish. Some fish, like billfish, have bony mouths so when the “J” hook tries to find purchase it just slides along and it either pops out of the mouth with the bait or attaches to the the upper palate, throat, pharynx, oesophagus or in the stomach. Anglers who practice catch and release know deep hook injuries, caused by any type of hook, are often mortal due to bleeding and that the hook sometimes is left inside the fish since its so deep there is no way to remove it without killing the fish. This is not a problem for the angler fishing for tasty, sought after fish like Dorado (dolphin), flounder, mangrove snapper, redfish, grouper, etc., since the whole point of going fishing is catching fish to eat.
Here is where circle hooks come in. They have been around for years and were adopted in the late 1970’s for use by longline commercial fishing boats because not only did fish hook themselves but also studies showed they were 85% more effective than “J” hooks and the hooked fish were alive when the longline was retrieved. It is ironic that recreational anglers, to preserve fish, have recently adopted commercial fishing hooks known and used for their ability to catch large numbers of fish.
We did say fish hooked themselves and we are not joking. When fishing using circle hooks and a fish takes the bait, do not set the hook! Wait. Count out one Mississippi, two Mississippi, etc., meditate about why there are no pregnant ladybugs, speculate on the price of bananas on Mars, just don’t set the hook! As the fish swims away the line becomes taut allowing the hook to rotate inside the fish’s mouth and lodge itself in the corner of the mouth. When the rod is flexed and the line taut that means the fish is hooked. Patience is very important because if the angler tries to set a circle hook the same way as a “J” hook, more often than not it will just be pulled out of the mouth of the fish. After a bite a mate on our boats grabs the rod but doesn’t do anything until the billfish swims away pulling the line taut and bending the rod, then he counts to five and “tests” whether the hook has been set by reeling in some line. This technique usually works very well.
If a “self-hooking hook” was not good enough, circle hooks have other advantages. Once hooked, billfish tend to leap and violently shake their head side to side to try and loose the hook. It looks spectacular and anglers love it but “J” hooks are sometimes dislodged this way. The circle hooks round shape and the direction of the barb helps to prevent dislodgement so fish don’t de-hook as much when doing their aerial stunts. Another great advantage is that humans hook themselves less in the hand, ear and/or other body parts and clothes with circle hooks because the barb points toward the body of the hook.
Not all circle hooks are created equal though. Besides “normal circle hooks” there are “offset circle hooks” whose barb does not point to the body of the hook but opens up, similar to a “J” hook’s. Depending on the degree that the barb is offset, 4 to 15 degrees, they become about as effective as “J” hooks at deep hooking as in their ability to catch fish. Like “J” hooks, “offset circle hooks” also cause more foul hooking of fish. Foul hooking means hooking a fish by the eye, gills, etc. Billfish depend on their eyesight to hunt and catch their prey so an eye wound seriously diminishes a billfish’s ability to feed and damaging the gills hampers the billfish’s survivability. Some circle hooks are made out of stainless steel and will not degrade with time so if a fish is lost with a stainless steel hook in it, that hook will be in the fish forever.
In Guatemala “catch and release” for all billfish is the law. Since it’s beginning our company has adopted a circle hook only policy for bill fishing and releasing the fish unharmed is a very important goal. Guatemala has the best sailfishing in the world and we do our best to keep it that way.
Happy fishing and tight lines!!
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May 13, 2019; 08:07PM - OCEAN-TAMER Marine Grade Bean Bags
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Category: Boats
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Price: $79.95 - $139.95
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Name for Contacts: Frank Abruzzino
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Phone: (941) 776-1133
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City: Palmetto
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State: Florda
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Nov 27, 2006; 12:04PM - 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
Cabo Fish Report
Nov. 20-26, 2006
WEATHER: Once again we have had perfect weather here in Cabo. Our daytime highs have been in the low 80’s and our lows in the evenings and early mornings have been in the mid 60’s. We have had only occasional clouds this week and the winds have been very light for the most part. We did have one day, the 21st, when the remnants of Tropical Depression Sergio brought strong southeastern winds and seas of 5-7 feet. On the 22nd the wind was gone and the seas had settled down.
WATER: Our water has remained blue and warm this past week and it looks like it may continue through this next week as well. Everywhere you might have gone within a 30-mile radius the water was a consistent 81-83 degrees. Once you got more than 40 miles to the north on the Pacific side it dropped a bit, down to the 78.5-degree range, but it remained blue. On both sides of the cape swells early in the week were between 3-7 feet as a result of Sergio, but as of the end of the week the swells had dropped to 2-4 feet. On Saturday the wind started to pick up again and by Sunday it was pretty bumpy on the Pacific side, also there was a cool water eddy that was about 78 degrees that moved into the area from the southeast on the Cortez side and lay about 15 miles offshore.
BAIT: Once again there was a pretty even mix of Caballito and Mackerel available at the usual $2 per bait. A lot of boats set out without buying any bait and instead, if they were headed to the Golden Gate Banks they caught their own Mackerel and Mackerel Scad there. I did not hear if there were ay Sardinas available this week.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: While the water temperature and color has remained great for Blue Marlin, there were very few of them caught this week. The billfish of the week was Striped Marlin, and they were there in good numbers if you were in the right place at the right time. The main concentration of Striped Marlin seemed to be at the Golden Gate Bank, probably there because of the large amount of bait in the area. Best results came from dropping live bait down to 100-150 feet, just above the massed Mackerel schools. Most boats were able to get two or three fish released a day while a few boats were able to get into double digits. By the weekend the bite had dropped off a bit, on Saturday there were 45 boats on the bank with the results being a bit disappointing, on Sunday there were only 15 boats and only one hookup in the morning, the bite did improve a bit later in the day with the best result being four fish for one of the boats sticking with it. Elsewhere, there were fish found off of the ledge at the lighthouse and while they were coming up and striking on lures, they were not being real aggressive. There were more Striped Marlin to be found within 2 miles of the coastline on the Pacific side and a few boats were catching and releasing between 2 and 6 fish a day up at the Finger Banks. I received four strikes Sunday at the San Jaime Bank for two releases but they were both small fish, one about 75 pounds and the other maybe 50 pounds. Most of the Striped Marlin caught this week were smaller than 100 pounds, but there were a few exceptions.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: The Yellowfin bite that had been happening at the Gorda Banks tapered off this week. There were still nice fish being caught, but not in the numbers or in the size categories that had been happening the past few weeks. Scattered pods of dolphin to the south of the Cape had produced fish in the 20-35 pound class for those boats willing to go 30 miles, and there were also the same size fish found to the south of the San Jaime Banks, again among the dolphin. Spreader bars and daisy chains produced the best results while a live mackerel dropped back after the first fish hooked up produced the larger fish, some to 50 pounds.
DORADO: Still the fish of the week! Best results came from the Pacific side with most of the action occurring 25 miles up the coast. Slow trolling live bait or trolling bright colored lures at 8 knots were the best way to induce these fish to strike and watching for following fish to drop a live bait to resulted in many double hook-ups. Most of these fish were in the 15-25 pound class. Farther to the north, the Finger Banks continued to produce good numbers of Dorado in the 30 pound class to boats slow trolling live bait, as well as getting some action on Striped Marlin. A good day on the Finger was between 4-12 fish.
WAHOO: I only saw a few Wahoo flags this week and heard of a few fish caught over the radio. There was no concentration of fish and those that were caught were incidental fish.
INSHORE: There was only scattered inshore action this week with a few early season Sierra, a decent Red Snapper bite and a few Grouper and Amberjack. Most of the Pangas were working off the beach for Dorado and a few of them had really outstanding trips! It’s nice when you can go out and catch a half-dozen Dorado, a few Red Snapper and have a Striped Marlin as well and be back in by noon!
NOTES: Great weather and good fishing, it doesn’t get much better than this! If things change the slow way they have been, we should see the fishing continue to improve for Striped Marlin and Tuna over the coming month with a chance of continued Dorado action. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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