Fishing Santa Fe Dam

Irwindale is known in these parts more for it's speedway than fishing. Irwindale is also known for a half-dozen rock quarries, teaming with large mouth bass. Although the quarry lakes are fenced off and mostly illegal to fish, a few diehard LA anglers know the secret spots and mostly keep it that way.

Pictured above, however, is a boy fishing legally at Santa Fe Dam. It's at the end of the day, but the beginning of Summer -- almost.

Sunrise on the Lake

Lake Arrowhead -- It's easy to be a "morning person" when you have this to look forward to. Total count: 26 smallmouth bass between my buddy and I. All were released to be caught another day.

Bass Fishing Lake Arrowhead

Fishing is as much of an aesthetic experience as it is a sport, especially at 6:00am at Lake Arrowhead . Pictured here, my friend Stu, a B.A.S.S. pro tournament fisherman, shows his appreciation by kissing a small mouth bass after catching the little fighter.

"The Boat House" in the background was originally owned by Mr. Thomas Hamilton, the inventor of the variable pitch prop on airplanes as well as building the world’s first plane made of metal. It was called the Hamilton Metal Plane. Not a bad backdrop while fishing.