Tag: Perch

• Diary of a Gypsy Fisherman

  The title of this post was originally going to be the title of my blog but while searching available URL’s, I just could not find one that was suitable—or memorable—so I looked for my secondary choice and discovered that theoldmanandtheseas.com was available.  Subsequently I registered it and have fished happily ever after even though when […]

  John Darling – Author

  October 14, 2019

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  Mackerel, Marina Park Beach, Perch, Schwinn Ranger, smelt, Ventura Pier

• 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

• Drift Lining

  My time to get out to the pier, the wharf, the shore, and a planned boat excursion, is going to be limited for a while due to prior commitments so I thought I’d explain what I mean when I mentioned in many of my posts that I fish with a drift line.  The concept is […]

  John Darling – Author

  September 23, 2019

  Bait, Bat Rays, Calico Bass, Carp, Catfish, fishing, fishing pole, Grandpa Duffy, Mackerel, Pacific Ocean, Sharks, smelt, sportfishing, Stearns Wharf

  Calico Bass, Carp, Catfish, drift line, fishing pole, Grandpa, Mackerel, Perch, Rays, sportfishing, Stearns Wharf, wishing pole

• 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