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California Surf Fishing Tips with Bill Varney | Your Saltwater Guide – Dave Hansen #261

Bill Varney is a fourth-generation Californian with a passion for surf fishing. His writing and photography have been published in national, regional and local publication as well as has been featured as a guest on radio and television shows. His book, Surf Fishing-The Light Line Revolution is a best seller and his site fishthesurf.com is loaded with tips, tricks and techniques for West Coast surf fishing. Check out www.fishthesurf.com

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Comments

jayfron says:

One of the best fishing channels on YouTube right now! Keep on keepin on man!

Also in regards to the fleas and shrimp, I’ve been using fish bites when I can’t get any shrimp and don’t feel like excavating for fleas. So far they work really well and are extremely durable for the current. They work on croaker like regular fleas do, probably about 80% as well.

Jake says:

48:00 — Regarding anti-fishing regulations and policies in California… I noticed back in Apr 2023 that several surf fish state records were OPEN (unclaimed) and those surf fish could be caught easily between SLO and OC. Only one pound minimum to be eligible!

I hook-and-line fished hard from shore to earn those records but did not succeed. In Aug 2023 I double checked the CA DFG website that the open records had not been taken by someone else yet and… they were totally missing? I took excellent notes in Apr 2023 so I knew exactly which two surf species were open and available to be awarded.

I contacted CA DFG in Aug 2023 about the issue. Their official email response was "yes you're correct that those two gamefish records were previously available to be earned AND wide open. But we decided to officially retract them for consideration because we don't want people fishing for certain gamefish just because the record catches are vacant."

Folks, I'm not trying to earn records for some whacky creature like mola mola or some nearly extinct squid from the deep. These two gamefish I targeted were rainbow surfperch and walleye surfperch… both of which are popular gamefish.

My conclusion was that CA DFG was being successfully pressured by tree huggers to prohibit as much fishing as possible. Despicable.

Dan Smith says:

Hello Captain Dave, Bill, KellyGirl, Marley, Cats, Elliott, and all you super duper folks watching. We were doing boat stuff all morning, so watching the replay. This is a great show. Bill Varney is a total ace. Wow what a great addition to YSWG Bill is going to be. Very very cool. Thanks for another great show. Kim and I wish all of you an awesome weekend. Be safe and Tight Lines.

Jake says:

34:19 — Holy shit isn't that the truth about clueless surfers walking straight out into your lines! 😂😂😂

I surf fish in my hometown of Huntington Beach. Same deal… goofball surfers just oblivious to the danger of lines and hooks.

I've never caught any backtalk or sass from them about my fishing. But I'm assume they're all clueless because they're all stoned 😂😂😂

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