fishing advice for newbie?

[Heidi H.]

ive been fishing a number of times w/ no luck so far. whats goin on? ive been using squid cut in half w/ pyramid weights on the surf or off of rocks usually late afternoon to dusk, both high and low tide. are there any fish out there? ive been all over the bodega area.
thanks!!

[Sonomamark]

This is an announcement board, and you know it, Dian. Please save your polemics for a discussion area.

Mark

yadda yadda yadda

Also hear that the mouth of a fish is filled with exquisite nerve endings. Consider going vegan for the health of the planet and your own self. If that's way too radical, how about some restoration work with local groups?

Best,
Dian

[taiwanbl]

After living in Taiwan for 6 years I also came to realize the importance of the vanishing fish. Most of the fish are farmed on that island. Our local I Kuan Tao group routinely bought and returned live fish to the rivers as well as releasing flocks of birds from the roof of our temple. My Taiwanese wife mourned the loss of fish in the rivers when only 30 years earlier she remembered as a child scooping them up from streams around her village.

Fishing stocks globally are vanishing. Up in Canada, they're blaming the seals for the failure of the cod fishery and killing them by the hundreds of thousands.

Our local salmon fleet's not going out, only recreational anglers. I remember when salmon way up north weren't coming back. Everyone was exercised over it. The native Americans said to stop fishing for a number of years and let the fish come back naturally. Possibly that's what's going on.

Also hear that the mouth of a fish is filled with exquisite nerve endings. Consider going vegan for the health of the planet and your own self. If that's way too radical, how about some restoration work with local groups?

Best,
Dian

[Karen]

Perhaps you have confused this site with WaccoYahoo, Mark. Here we enjoy Free Speech. Barry will move this to Talk when he thinks it's appropriate. No worries.

This is an announcement board, and you know it, Dian. Please save your polemics for a discussion area.


Mark

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[watermarko]

ive been fishing a number of times w/ no luck so far. whats goin on? ive been using squid cut in half w/ pyramid weights on the surf or off of rocks usually late afternoon to dusk, both high and low tide. are there any fish out there? ive been all over the bodega area.
thanks!!

short answer: "california pier fishing" second edition.

[mykil]

I'll take you fishing Heidi!!!!

ive been fishing a number of times w/ no luck so far. whats goin on? ive been using squid cut in half w/ pyramid weights on the surf or off of rocks usually late afternoon to dusk, both high and low tide. are there any fish out there? ive been all over the bodega area.
thanks!!