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Very cool, and good for you! A definite change in lifestyle, but I'm guessing you'll love it.

That's awesome! Post some pics

Enjoy your life, Mel! I hope you document the development of your ponds and share it with us.

Excellent! we should have a "fishing in other locales" sub forum for people who went fishing on vacation to other regions and states, and ex-patriots who would still like to actively participate in the fishing report side of the forum.

Are those Kentucky Spotted Bass out there?

Very cool, enjoy yourself, thats what its all about!

Here's a cool video of the opener -

Congratulations, Mel! Happy for you but sorry we never had a chance to meet in person and fish together before you escaped.

Blessings my friend, Alain!

What has been the most egregious example of poaching that you have seen that you just had to call Cal Tip?

I saw a good one today.

I showed up to the local pond today, and saw a guy doing the following:

1. Using TWO hoop nets. He was baiting the nets with cut up bluegill.

2. Using a throw net as ...

Sounds like Loveland the last couple years. There were a few times I wanted to call but no signal. I came around a corner and a lady had close to 50 gills she was cutting and stuffing in a backpack. I scared her so bad, she fell on the knife she had clamped in here teeth, I thought she definitely ...

In 2013 4 guys got caught poaching a thousand fish at Cayon Lake in Riverside County, got no jail time, slight fine, and a little probation

I suspect as times and the general economy get tougher, more and more people will resort to poaching of both fish and game, especially those who don't know anything about regulations and the law in America.

Many years ago while fishing Lake Poway, I was casting along the buoy lines as bass were chasing shad and saw a line tied to the buoy line. Naturally I had to see what was on the end and it was a trotline. I knew it was illegal and cut it off and started pulling it in. It seemed like it took forever ...

Saw a guy with more than 80 HUGE ghost shrimp.
The guy swore he was gonna release the overlimit, but the warden rolled up on him when he got distracted by spotted bay bass.
Oh, wait, that was me.
$273 wiser.

Hard not to slap some sense into them myself! But assault is never worth the lesson

Hard not to slap some sense into them myself! But assault is never worth the lesson 😂


I'm not even worried about the assault charge.

Nowadays, you never know who's strapped.

https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2023/06/09/crane-prairie-fishing-feud-leads-to-gunfire-swat-callout-2-shots-fired-at ...

There’s an actual loophole law that if you are fishing especially in remote areas, you’re allowed to carry even if you don’t have a permit.
Some places that are private like cuyamaca for example can supersede the law. I’m not sure about other entities like Sweetwater for example. But if it’s a ...

I was up in La Jolla around Bird Rock, when a scuba guy came walking out of the water with an orange fish on the end of his spear..I asked him if he knew what it was and he said "yep, a red snapper! I said "nope, a garibaldi, the state fish and it's protected..might cost you $500." He threw it back ...

I was up in La Jolla around Bird Rock, when a scuba guy came walking out of the water with an orange fish on the end of his spear..I asked him if he knew what it was and he said "yep, a red snapper! I said "nope, a garibaldi, the state fish and it's protected..might cost you $500." He threw it ...

If you want a first hand experience of violation after violation, just take a stroll down any public pier.