Category: Perch

• A Visit To An Old Friend

  While I have been out a few times to see if the Pacific has warmed enough to start the fishing season, I have not had much luck or much to report about. So, while on the way back from a day trip to Jalama Beach, east of Lompoc, CA, I decided to drop in on […]

  John Darling – Author

  March 29, 2021

  fishing, fishing pole, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Perch, Sharks, Shovel Nose Shark

  Gaviota, Halibut

• The Off Season

  I have not posted anything in a while for one simple reason: I have had nothing to post about. I have fished in the Pacific Ocean off and on for nearly 40 years and to date, this is the worst fishing season I can remember after last season being one of the best. I guess […]

  John Darling – Author

  October 28, 2020

  Bait, Calico Bass, California White Croakers, Cormorant, Dungeness Crab, fishing, fishing pole, fog, Goleta Pier, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Pelicans, Perch, Port Hueneme Beach, Port Hueneme Pier, Professional Fisherman, Sand Crab, Santa Barbara, CA, Sea Gulls, Sharks, Skate Ray, smelt, Stearns Wharf, Ventura Pier

  fishing pole, Pacific Ocean, sportfishing

• Touching Home

  Prior commitments, some delays in work being done on the homestead, and an appointment to a city advisory group has kept me away from fishing most of the last few weeks but when a day opened up yesterday, I decided to go over to the Ventura Pier, my home base, for a few hours because […]

  John Darling – Author

  October 4, 2019

  fishing, fishing pole, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Perch, Santa Barbara, CA, Stearns Wharf, Ventura Pier, wishing pole

  Channel Islands, Highway 101, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Perch, Santa Barbara, Ventura Pier

• Memory: Canyon Lake

  As I mentioned in my last Memory posting (Encanto Park) after I found a good job, bought a car, and could afford to travel, I began to fish in many of the lakes around and outside of the Phoenix area.  Lake Pleasant was one of the newer lakes and the closest to where I lived.  […]

  John Darling – Author

  September 16, 2019

  Canyon Lake, Carp, ENcanto Park, fishing, Perch, Roosevelt Lake, Saguaro Lake

  Carp, Crappie, Perch, Phoenix, Striped Bass

• Fishing on the edge of the world…

  When I surf fish in the Pacific Ocean , I always say that I am fishing on the edge of the world. If you lake fish, you know the boundaries of the lake and most likely you know the depth of it as well. When you river or creek fish, you know the boundaries of […]

  John Darling – Author

  September 12, 2019

  Bait, Emma Wood State Beach, fishing, fishing pole, Pacific Ocean, Perch, Shakespeare ATS 350, Shimano Saguaro rod

  Pacific Ocean, Perch, Shakespeare ATS30, Shimano Saguaro rod, Squid, Surf fishing

• Some days you just don’t feel like…

  …fishing. I am sure you didn’t expect to see that word next and you would have a hard time convincing my wife and friends that this statement can be attributed to me, yet it is nonetheless true. Today was one of those days. I can’t explain why I felt this way today. Maybe it was […]

  John Darling – Author

  September 5, 2019

  Pacific Ocean, Perch, Skate Ray, smelt

  croaker, Perch, Skate, smelt