Soooo about this flylining thing.... and other questions

[saltlifedoc]

Well you answered a lot of my questions actually. It's funny I worked on boats since I was a little guy, and ran a few charter boats until I enlisted and I have never heard of a surprisingly good amount of tackle/lures/techniques used out here.

For example, when I was talking about daytime deep drop sword fishing to a guy in the tackle shop he looked at me like I was an alien.

Oh and no ballyhoo? My mind was blown. Then I found out cast nets are illegal the hard way... That one still makes me laugh, you should of seen the game wardens reaction when I tossed right in front of him.

Anyways I do love it down here, and as I can see from all of your guys posts some killer fishing. I appreciate the help with the learning curve!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Lipripper92592]

Originally Posted by saltlifedoc

Well you answered a lot of my questions actually. It's funny I worked on boats since I was a little guy, and ran a few charter boats until I enlisted and I have never heard of a surprisingly good amount of tackle/lures/techniques used out here.

For example, when I was talking about daytime deep drop sword fishing to a guy in the tackle shop he looked at me like I was an alien.

Oh and no ballyhoo? My mind was blown. Then I found out cast nets are illegal the hard way... That one still makes me laugh, you should of seen the game wardens reaction when I tossed right in front of him.

Anyways I do love it down here, and as I can see from all of your guys posts some killer fishing. I appreciate the help with the learning curve!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

From Floridia....same issue...tossed a cast net in Ventura harbor and the look on the wardens face was priceless. Took a bit of explaining, but he gave me a pass.

[taggermike]

I had the reverse situation. I was born and raised here in San Diego and spent a year on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Like you're finding out, man what a difference. And I never did figure out the east coaster fascination with spinning reels. Any way, we do a lot o fly lining around SD in the summer. Fly lining is basically letting a live bait swim with a hook in it. No weight and fished with the reel in free spool. Yep, market squid are the small ones we catch around here. As for buck tails, we just use em much out here. I'm sure they'd work and many of our local species though. I you need some you might have make a purchase on line. West coast irons are different than east coast ones. Our heavy irons are similar but I don't think they ever use surface irons. I showed a tady 45 to some serious anglers in NC and they had never seen a aluminum iron before or heard of west coast surface iron fishing. You'll figure it out and, it seamed to me at least, that west coast fishing styles are simpler and more straight forward than some of the stuff I saw back east. Mike

[Fishwhisperer619]

Originally Posted by saltlifedoc

Well you answered a lot of my questions actually. It's funny I worked on boats since I was a little guy, and ran a few charter boats until I enlisted and I have never heard of a surprisingly good amount of tackle/lures/techniques used out here.

For example, when I was talking about daytime deep drop sword fishing to a guy in the tackle shop he looked at me like I was an alien.

Oh and no ballyhoo? My mind was blown. Then I found out cast nets are illegal the hard way... That one still makes me laugh, you should of seen the game wardens reaction when I tossed right in front of him.

Anyways I do love it down here, and as I can see from all of your guys posts some killer fishing. I appreciate the help with the learning curve!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It really is a different game out here in socal. Ive spent time fishing in Florida, Wyoming, Georgia, and Texas. Mostly coastal but still saw the variances by region. I never understood why they love spinning reels so much on the east coast but to each their own. Yea the cast net thing doesn't sit well over here lol. But you can catch bait with sabiki rigs, or make a stop at a bait barge on your way out if you launch from the bay. Surface irons out here are different from the "spoons" that they have out there. The same action pretty much but different in design for good reason. A surface iron out here resembles the sardine and the spoon out there resembles the pilchards and other baitfish of that region.
Keep asking questions and spend time on the water out here. Feel free to pm me when you head out