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- nb0
- canoe0
Amazon just dropped off a guide to Everglades National Park, got to get there before the mosquitos.
Who's got plans this spring?
- UKV0
Yeap! It's spring in PNW...
- UKV0
- mg330
BTW - if any of you have any really awesome photo sets and travel stories, feel free to send them my way at http://www.expeditionbureau.com/….
I'm always looking for interesting content to share on the blog as it relates to great travel/adventure photography.
- set0
- utopian0
Snatching
- canoe0
@bogue - Tell us more about this Tasmanian trek that almost took your life.
- nocomply0
So here in Southern California we have the awesome privilege to participate in the niche sport of surf fishing. It's really, 100% the best kind of fishing you can do. A lot of guys do it year round, but I'm a softy and I only go in the warmer months. It basically goes like this:
The fish you're targeting are surf perch, various croakers, halibut, corbina, leopard sharks, the occasional string ray or shovel nose guitar fish, and many, many more.
You use a long-but-light-action steelhead rod with a light spinning reel. Most of the time I kind of carolina rig sand crabs that I dig up at the beach, but you can also use these powerbait plastic lures referred to around these parts as "crack." Clams and ghost shrimp work well too.
I throw on my trunks and flip flops, put what little tackle I need in a backpack and head down to the beach. Wade into about knee deep water and cast out. Slowly retrieve and reel up the slack as the waves wash your bait back to shore.
It's the best. A lot like this photo. When I'm surf fishing life is good.
- niceJulesvm
- You can do this in Aus too...MrT
- do you eat the fish, or do it just for sport?monospaced
- If it's a good fish for eating from clean water I will keep it. Most are caught and released.nocomply
- Catching my dinner is always the goal, rarely the result.nocomply
- yeah dude, love surf fishing.moldero
- nocomply - natas kapuscanoe
- cannonball19780
I wish I learned how to hunt and fish. Unfortunately I lived in NYC.
I do know how to make fire with a bowdrill though.
- sine0
i grew up trekking and camping around the country and Southern Africa with my dad and younger brother. so many great experiences.
i rock climbed quite intensely in my mid 20s; trained 3 times a week and then spent most of my weekends trying to send ever-more-difficult climbs.
i've also surfed for the last five years or so (late starter), but i've been so lazy the last year. trying to slowly get back in to it again. i did nearly kill myself in big surf a couple years ago, which killed the stoke for me for a while. i got myself into the water quite soon after the incident, but it's always stayed with me...
- chossy0
Walked most of the hills of Scotland, climbed lots. Ice climbing etc. lots of mountain biking. Used to canoe but it was shite. Taken up skiing and snowboarding now as well.