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2012

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Report from our last fishing trip read.

All witner the swell hitting the Palos Verdes shoreline that remains open to angling has been too rough to fish.  Finally today (2/22) the surf was 2 - 3 feet, which is as big as you would want to be comfortable.  Problem was, after a stop at the Colorado Lagoon slime pit, there is no opaleye bait available.  The mud banks are green but the algae is thin and short.  I was hoping after last week's rain we would have the long and strong verdant strings; too bad.

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I updated my smoked beef jerky recipe.

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Here's the price for a 2012 fresh and saltwater California fishing license with second rod stamp, purchased online from the DFG site http://www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/:

2012 - Sport Fishing License (Res) $44.85
2012 - Sport Ocean Enhancement Validation $5.14
2012 - Second-Rod Sport Fishing Validation $13.78

Total: $63.77

Fish News:

South Coast MPA list and regulations

Civilian volunteer groups forming to monitor MPAs

New restrictions on calico, barred and spotted sand bass coming soon

Dude busted for selling sport-caught tuna from back of truck

Trying to get Mono County to help raise trout for stocking

Nov. 2011 freak windstorm leaves thousands of downed trees in Sierra

10.85 trout pulled from Lake Wohlford

Plan to bring back southern steelhead to So. Cal. waters

Mystery tumor on LA Harbor white croaker

7,000 white seabass killed at Redondo hatchery

40,000 trout killed at Fish Springs hatchery in Owens Valley

MWD plans for Diamond Valley Lake

Dead whale shark found near Karachi

Possible crackdown on car camping - that's the way I like to camp when not backpacking.

Not much snow this winter in the Sierra (1/20)

Mammoth area expecting 3 storms in a row (1/21)

Lobster poacher cited

Abalone poacher convicted

Surf is big this week (1/7)

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