And it looks so easy...

by Avery "SwinginFish" Ellisman

I was born and grew up in So. Cal, and lived close enough to the Pacific to ride my bike to the Ventura pier where, in addition to tormenting seagulls, I tossed “shiny sinkers” for bonito at a very early age.  As time passed, my interest in the ocean broadened, and at 14 I was trolling jigs in the local marina from my own little 10’ O’Day Sprite.  Not surprisingly, the sailing interest soon gave way to surfing, which became an obsession that lasted some 20+ years, saw me through - and extended - my adolescence, and aside from shaping me into the chick magnet I never was, helped me develop a fairly appreciable respect for the Ma Nature.  Read More