Quote Originally Posted by ScottP View Post
In my spare time, I'm a self-taught icthyologist.
Aren't we all?

If you're going to California to fish, you aren't going where I was. I was "stuck" in southern Orange County, had my family in tow, and was working 6 days a week, so unless I could go and come back in a single day, I didn't get to go. Most often that resulted in about 2 hours of driving, an hour or more of hiking, an hour or two of fishing, followed by the return trip of 3 hours or so. A lot of effort for a relative few minutes on the water. I would have loved to spend some time in the Sierras, but they were just too far away.