{"id":23743,"date":"2017-01-04T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23743"},"modified":"2017-01-04T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:35:17","slug":"california-fishing-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-fishing-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"California Fishing With a Fork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/huckfn.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>California Fishing With a Fork<\/h2>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>All over California there are many happy, passionate kids and adults, who avidly catch a wide variety of fish daily. Even off the Golden State&#8217;s Piers, I see people hauling in fish, often with a degree of ease. I noticed most children seem to love fishing, even those who catch them through the tales of Tom Sawyer.<\/p>\n<p>When I was 10, I wanted to become a fisherman, at least enough to catch my own dinner. But whenever I went fishing, the slippery, little wigglers would never bite my hook. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/sports\/fishing\/fishing-humor.html\">Read the story&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<h2>Fishing Stats &amp; Facts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>July 1 &amp; September 2, 2017 are Free Fishing Days in California (wildlife.ca.gov).<\/li>\n<li>In California those under\u00a0age 16 years\u00a0can fish\u00a0without a license, laws\u00a0apply.<\/li>\n<li>Fishing on California Piers is free.<\/li>\n<li>More than 46\u00a0million Americans still took at least one fishing trip in 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Over 80% of participants report catching fish during their last fishing trip!<\/li>\n<li>Takemefishing.org and California&#8217;s Department of Fish &amp; Wildlife&#8217;s\u00a0Fishing\u00a0in the City encourage youth to fish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Fishing With a Fork By C. MacDonald All over California there are many happy, passionate kids and adults, who avidly catch a wide variety of fish daily. Even off the Golden State&#8217;s Piers, I see people hauling in fish, often with a degree of ease. I noticed most children seem to love fishing, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}