Posted on 01/27/2021 5:09:12 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
Lino Jubilado has been fly fishing in the Los Angeles River for over 40 years. Though most LA residents view the river as a polluted eyesore, to Lino, it’s a slice of nature’s paradise hidden within a big, bustling city. Amongst the trash and the concrete, Lino fly fishes for carp, bass and bluegill. But it’s the joy of catching carp that keeps Lino coming back to the river several times a week. Lino doesn’t usually eat the carp he catches from the LA River, but today is unusual.
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.
THEM
Gas station sushi in Tokyo can be very good—I’ve had it. Stateside? Not so much.
Make me a sargent, charge the booze.
I’ve seen that thing full at flood level conditions. It was up to the bottoms of the freeway overpasses. Several people always get swept away in the big storms.
”The time to catch suckers..is when they are running”....
Spent summers as a kid on the Mississippi, smoked carp was a local treat!
They keep them in a freshwater tank for a few days to flush them out.
Oily but tasty.
Episode of The Simpsons?
The one's they're pulling from the LA River appear pre-cooked.
There are several canals running under Chandler Blvd. Their source is the Granite Reef dam, so the water flowing through them is from the Salt River, the Verde River, and the Colorado River.
We fish the Consolidated Canal, the main source of drinking water for the City of Chandler, and NOTHING like the L.A. River. I can cast out, and within ten minutes hook into a huge carp, catfish, or even a yellow bass.
Although the water is clean and the fish are fine to eat, we catch and release.
I remember Them.
Make me a sergeant, give me the booze . . .
I've seen it like that.
The shame of it is he keeps saying “It’s not so bad.” Instead of making any effort to clean it up.
Carp? So he’s not a crappie fly fisherman, but he’s close.
I live in coal mine country with lots of old company houses...which have no septic tanks. The sewage runs right into the creeks behind the houses.
Amazed at the number of people who swim in the creeks right down from the houses to this very day.
It’s time to put some Grizzly Bears there.
Born Free
Eating some liberals.
Yeah well I think we’re talking about 2 different Chandler’s. I guess you’re speaking of Arizona. I’m speaking of Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley. I think the water under LA’s Chandler canals come from the Hansen Dam. Which isn’t much of a dam as a far as water volume goes. More of a floodgate than a dam but they built a decent park around it.
Don’t fish much anymore. When I did as an adult it was almost always fresh water and almost always catch and release unless we were going to eat it that day, e.g. when camping. As a kid my uncle would take us out on those one day excursions leaving from Malibu or Santa Monica piers and it was very unpredictable. Lot of rock fish. Once a kid with a plastic kiddie rod hooked a 50 lb halibut. The toy rod he had could never pull it in, but a bunch of old hands (with gloves) pulled it in by hand. No reel. Was comical in a way looking back, and amazing to see these guys fighting the fish with just some elbow grease. Literally pulling in 2 feet at a time, wrapping it around their elbows, then pulling some more like wrapping an extension cord.
Bathtub cheese and gas station nachos (fatal botulism).
Maybe Tide pods werent so bad after all.
“Say Babe! another $0.69 and we can buy a quart of Malt liquor and go drink it down by the river!”
My (now) late uncle in Florida used to rave about how much he liked tilapia.
I tried it once....and I hated it.
I remember when I was a college kid in Los Angeles MANY years ago.
A woman told me of the serious floods they had in LA back in the 1930’s when that river would spill it’s banks during the winter “monsoon” season.
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