5/7 ninja mission (prob not the best first post)

[drifter023]

There's a lot of things the mass population of California has ****** up.

True I remember when Silverwood first opened you could stay out on the boat till 10:00 pm.

[Viejo]

I bet fishing in socal was incredible before all these dorks ruined everything by transforming rivers into concrete channels, and removing the riparian vegetation that kept the water cool.

You bring up a good point. As now, the whole point was to maximize the amount of water downstream for agriculture and to grow the industrial base of SoCal.

There's a lot of things the mass population of California has ****** up.

Another interesting point, by 1890, most of the Angeles and San Bernardino creeks were barren of fish. It was the heyday of the "hiking" culture and for the first time, ordinary folks ventured into the mountains in large numbers. There were no such things as limits and the pictures of those days include several hundred fish strung out on long willow branches. The area had been pretty much stripped clean of big game as well, including the last of the Grizzly's that used to live in California. It wasn't until just before the turn of the century that fish were brought down from Lake Tahoe and replanted in the creeks by Angeles Preserve rangers using mule strings and milk cans.

[DarkShadow]

It wasn't until just before the turn of the century that fish were brought down from Lake Tahoe and replanted in the creeks by Angeles Preserve rangers using mule strings and milk cans.

Hmm...perhaps I shouldn't have YouTubed all those "secret" spots then.

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