California Fishing

California is the most populous state in the Unitedstrong point is that gang hooks enable the angler to
States of America, but there is still plenty of room topresent the bait naturally, rather than trying to thread
fish. California is broken up into six distinct regions, allthe worm onto a larger single hook. If you're bait
with various fishing regulations. California boasts 1,100fishing in California, you may want to give gang
miles of ocean coastline, 220,000 square miles ofhooks a shot,
ocean waters, 4,172 lakes and reservoirs, 29,664Remember, a California fishing license is required to
miles of streams and rivers, and 1,800 miles of bayfish in the state of California. A fishing license will run
and delta waters, California has more fishingyou from $37.50 for a resident to $100 for a non
opportunities than any other state in the country.resident. If you're traveling, a two day license is
With that amount of water available to fish in,available for less than $20. And if you happen to be
California is an anglers dream.going after Steelhead on inland waters in California,
If you're interested in deep sea fishing, ocean wadeyou need a Steelhead report card, which is under $10.
fishing, river and stream fishing, or lake fishing forAs you can see, fishing in California isn't at all an
Largemouth Bass, California can accommodate you.expensive proposition (especially for residents). If you
California has almost every species of game fishplan on staying in California for the rest of your life,
available to the avid angler. From crappie to sturgeonthere is even lifetime fishing licenses available, which is
and every freshwater fish in between, California hasreally good idea.
them. And saltwater fish from mackerel to greatThe bottom line is if your like to fish, California is an
white sharks can all be found off of the Californiaanglers paradise. Any type of fishing that you can
coast as well.imagine is available within the state of California. And
As far as freshwater fishing goes, one of the bestwith its thousands of miles of coastline, there are
methods for fishing live bait is a set of gang hooks. Agood runs of both salmon and steelhead as well.
set of gang hooks is simply two small hooks tied inMany states within the United States don't offer
tandem. Small hooks work well, because they arefishing for these wonderful fish simply because of
then concealed with in bait quite nicely. In fact, gangtheir proximity to large bodies of water. Yep, as far
hooks are the best way to present a live worm, asas the sport of fishing goes, California is a hard state
well as many other live types of live bait. The biggestto beat.