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Very interesting and never heard anything about it.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/featu...ce=govdelivery
Very interesting and never heard anything about it.
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
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Bill,
Judging by those pictures they may have been around before you were born. Note too that they were mostly around southern California.
TONY BUZOLICH
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Yuba City, CA.
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They were still around in the late 1960's and early 1970's when I was a kid. You got shuttled out from the pier and found your place at the rail. Back in the day, you could actually catch a fair number of fish from these barges. I remember the newspaper used to have fish reports every day from the barges and party boats. How many fish of each species caught.
For obvious reasons, I never saw anyone fly fishing from the barges
Growing up in SoCal as a teenager my friends and I would go out on the Redondo barge.
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
567 Barber Street
Sebastian, Florida 32958
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We had a lot of family in Santa Cruz so we spent summers there in the 1950s.
At maybe 12 I could buy a handline on the main Santa Cruz pier for 99 cents and a cup of cooked shrimp for 25 cents.
We caught tons of ~8 inch "Tom Cod" which were the young of the larger rock cod.
Old timers would catch small fish (perch) and put them on a big convention rig and toss them under the pier for big fish.
One time, ~30 years ago, two old-timers were demonstrating how they fished off the piers around Santa Cruz before World War II.
They used long cane polls with a long piece of heavy braided line and some silver hooks.
They made up a small bucket of "mash" which was a corn meal or oatmeal with water something in it for scent.
They put the lines down in the water then with a big spoon they tossed the concoction where the line met the water.
Then they jigged the rods up and down and caught some kind of smelt that no longer exists.
Bill Kiene (Boca Grande)
567 Barber Street
Sebastian, Florida 32958
Fly Fishing Travel Consultant
Certified FFF Casting Instructor
Email: billkiene63@gmail.com
Cell: 530/753-5267
Web: www.billkiene.com
Contact me for any reason........
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