| 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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Jan 3, 2009; 11:36PM
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Category: Looking for
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Name for Contacts: JEFF TALLEY
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Phone: 205-369-9689
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City: MOODY
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State: AL.
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Country: USA
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I HAVE FOUND A TYPE OF MINNOW BUCKET AND I'M WONDERING WHAT IT'S WORTH. IT IS MADE OF A PAPER COMPOSITE OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE, IT HAS 'J. C. HIGGINS SEARS ROEBUCK CO. INSCRIBED ON IT. IT IS IN FAIRLY GOOD CONDITION.I HAVE LOOKED ON THE COMPUTER FOR IT AND CAN NOT FIND ANYTHING FROM THE 40'S OR 50'S ON IT SO I'M THINKING IT IS OLDER THAN THAT. IF SOMEONE HAS ANY INFO. PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL ME.
THANKS,
JEFF
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Kids only 12 and under fishing photo contest
$50 worth of free fishing tackle for the photo with the most votes. Contest open to Kids only 12 and under at time of catch. Contest will be active once there are 8 contestants. Good luck to all.
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Ian MoppertUnknown as f...Brown Trout |
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Mar 5, 2009; 05:22PM - Meat Stock Cube Chemical Lure
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Category: Fishing tips and tricks
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Author Name: Mike Cobb
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Tip&Trick Description 1:
MEAT STOCK CUBE CHEMICAL LURE
This started off by being an applied science project in school linked to fishing for predatory species. I am happy for anyone to try it out. It takes some preparation but is worth the experiment. You can use it for river, lake or sea fishing from a bank, beach, pier or boat. Use the strongest line you have for dragging. Have a camera to get evidence of your catch.
First get your meat stock cubes – the red varieties are the best imitation of the fluids that leak from wounded prey. They are much cheaper if bought in the large boxes and cost even less if you can get them put on someone else’s shopping list.
You also need a pair of tights or stockings so ask nicely – particularly if someone is wearing them at the time!
Cut the tights/stockings up into 10cm (4in) squares and put them onto a flat surface.
Take the foil wrapping off of each stock cube being careful not to crumble it and place one centrally onto each square of the tights/stockings.
Tie the four corners of the material together into a firm knot – a test of your dexterity – you may need to use bigger squares at first and trim them up afterwards.
Then tie a length of line inside the knot of each lure bag leaving plenty of spare to attach to the eye on your lure. Store your bags in a waterproof and crushproof container.
When you are ready to fish attach a bag to the eye of your lure making sure that you tie the knot so that a used bag can be easily removed from the eye but cannot slip off during movement underwater. A pair of fine scissors will useful to do the cutting during bag changing. Dispose of used bags and line responsibly please – not into the water or onto the site.
Keep safe – wear a lifejacket if you are fishing on or by deep water. Keep yourself warm and waterproof. Do not fish on your own – it is safer with others. Let someone know where you are going and have a means of contacting him or her.
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Dec 9, 2007; 09:35PM - Custom Fit Boat Cover
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Category: [other]
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Price: Varies
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Name for Contacts: Elite Outdoors
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Phone:
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State: MO
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Country: USA
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Description 1:
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.
Westland has over 16,000 Exact Fit Custom Cover patterns for over 200 different boat manufacturers. You will have your choice of 3 fabrics and over 30 colors.
To check to see if we have a custom cover pattern for your boat please Email Us your year - make - model - any accessories like towers, swim platforms, bow rails, radar archs, etc. |
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Sharkskin color chart...also, available in Sunbrella |
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Nov 13, 2006; 10:53AM - 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. 6-12, 2006
WEATHER: once again we had paradise type of weather with our night time lows in the high 60’s and our day time highs in the high 80’s to low 90’s with a fairly low humidity level. Almost every day was sunny with a few scattered clouds and light winds.
WATER: The Pacific side saw just a slight chop on water that ranged between 80 and 83 degrees. There was no really strongly defined temperature break, instead there was gradual variations with a plume of the cooler water coming in off of the west toward shore just to the north of the Golden Gate Bank. On the Cortez side of the Cape we had 81.5 to 83 degree water with no defined breaks as well. On both sides of Los Cabos there were slight swells at the beginning of the week and swells at 4-6 feet at the end of the week, most likely a result of a few areas of disturbed weather well to the southeast of us.
BAIT: Caballito and Mackerel were available at the usual $2 per bait and there were Sardinas at $20 a bucket, both at the mouth of the harbor and up off of Palmilla and La Playita.
FISHING:
BILLFISH: I didn’t hear of any really large fish being caught this week, but the Striped Marlin bite has started to pick up a bit. As far as the Blue and Black Marlin are concerned there are still fish out there, but most of them were averaging between 200 and 250 pounds, with an occasional fish in the low 400’s. As I said, the Striped Marlin bite has picked up a bit with a lot of boats finding fish off of the Golden Gate Bank while deep dropping live Caballito and Mackerel. An average of one to two fish per boat for the boats willing to stick it out all day was the norm, but there were boats that tried for hours with no positive results. Many of these boats were able to get a billfish after leaving the area and putting lures in the water. As with most fishing, tide change seemed to make a major difference. A few boats have begun to make runs to the Finger Banks on a regular basis, hoping to be at the spot when the Striped Marlin move into the area in force. So far the bite has been good, but not as spectacular as we saw last year. The bite in the middle of the week was in the afternoon after the tide change and the half-dozen boats at the bank reported releasing between four and 10 fish in an afternoon as well as being attacked by large schools of Dorado.
YELLOWFIN TUNA: There were still some school and football fish to be found in the San Jose area, ion the Inman Banks and just off the beach at La Playita, to be specific. These fish were biting on Sardinas after being chummed to the boat. In other areas the key was to find the porpoise and hope you marked Tuna under them on the depth sounder. There was a nice pod of Porpoise off the arch about two miles in the middle of the week and a few boats were able to get hooked up to fish in the #100 range by dropping live Mackerel down to 100 feet in front of the moving school. Most of the boats coming into the Porpoise were just pulling lures or trying to drop bait back behind the boat on the surface, but the deep baits produced while the shallow ones did not.
DORADO: The Dorado continue to provide action for boats fishing the Pacific side of the Cape with most of the action continuing to be 20 miles up the coast. Smaller lure in bright colors as well as slow trolled live and dead bait worked well with many boats coming in with limits of two nice fish per client. A few boats were able to score extremely nice fish in the 30-40 pound class when they came across floating debris such and pieces of lumber and strands of Kelp, but most of the fish were associated with current lines. The bite has gotten better at the Finger Banks as schools of baitfish have started to move into the area. Most of these fish are in the 20-30 pound class. The Dorado bite on the Cortez side of the Cape has been sporadic with most of the fish found being close to the shore.
WAHOO: There were a couple of days at the beginning of the week when the Wahoo started to make a showing up in the San Jose area, but that bite shut off just as quickly as it started. Elsewhere, there have only been a few Wahoo found, and they have been incidental catches.
INSHORE: Once again we have seen a scattering of Sierra showing up inshore and the Red Snapper bite has started to pickup as well. There are a few Roosterfish still around but I have not heard of any large ones lately. Most of the Pangas that have been working inshore have done best while using live Sardinas as bait and have had very mixed bags with Sierra, Red Snapper, Triggerfish, an occasional Grouper and a few Amberjack being in the cooler at the end of the day.
NOTES: Things are looking up as the water cools and the weather gets better. We are hoping that the bite continues to improve and finally go wide open on the Striped Marlin and that the Tuna start to show up in force. It’s hard to predict what is going to happen so I just report on what has been. This weeks report was written to the music of the Stray Cats on their 1982 self-titled album from Arista Records. Until next week, Tight Lines!
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