Hey There!

Hey folks, my name is Ed and I currently live in Lake Forest, CA. I am looking to move to Grants Pass in the next year, but we are really working towards/hoping/praying for October. I'm looking to fish for smallies closer to GP, and maybe a monthly or bi-monthly trip to the coast for whatever I can find in the harbors.

Currently I fish from a Ride 135 and love it. If I ever get the money I'll add a PA14. I love fishing for saltwater bass and spend most of my fishing time chasing spotted bay bass. I think my current tactics for saltwater bass will be perfect for shallow water rockfish and the occasional 'butt. For freshwater, it's a different story in that I pretty much stink at it. The biggest problem is that down here I have to drive at least an hour and then pay to fish. That irks me; so I mostly chase the spotties which are readily available from the 3 harbors I frequent. So, I don't get much practice chasing the green bass. My favorite fish that I ever caught though was a smallie about 4lbs. Took me on a nice little sleigh ride and helped fulfill the reason for that trip to Idaho. See my friend and catch a smallmouth bass. They fight more like a saltwater bass than largemouth do, that's for sure.

Anyways, thanks for reading and enjoy the treefish picture. Caught while fishing for calicoes, it is the biggest one I've ever seen. Do they get bigger up north?

An Amish fellow in a kayak... well, that's something new.  Welcome to NWKA.

We don’t have treefish.  I have never heard of one caught north of Santa Cruz/Monterey Bay California.

Welcome.

Thanks Crash, I didn't bother to lookup the range of treefish and should have.

Tinker, thanks as well. I got the nickname as a deckhand in Dana Point. One morning I overslept and missed my boat. Thankfully they were just getting bait and eventually came back for me. But, while waiting on the dock, another captain came up and asked me if my horse had died. I was clueless. He asked if my buggy had lost a wheel. Still clueless. So, he explained that with my long goatee, large lifeguard hat, and pipe (I smoked a pipe for a long time) I must be Amish. Well, my boat came back for me and my captain announced over the PA to the passengers that they had to collect Sleeping Beauty (me). That day I was Sleeping Beauty, but after that Amish Ed stuck. I was glad as I had a few names at that point, the most ingenious was Special Ed. Another DH named me that before the Amish Ed came about. Better to be Amish.