not form SoCal but...
Last year me and my peoples were going fishing alll the time. We would hop in the suv after work, pick up a few of our boys, head up to the boonies with a couple machetes (copper head snakes all over) and poles, a few dubs of some sour d and fish fish fish. I never cought a single damn fish though! Some of the days were were just standing out there up to our waste in the lake in the pouring rain praying lightning didn't hit haha..

Was a wild time, can just imagine the country folk thinking "what the hell ?" when out of the vehicle, bunch of dudes, hispanic and black and the token white rasta (me) hopped out passing out machetes, poles, buckets and coolers, tats blazing hah. Was a good time but like I said, I never cought shit.. Friends were getting blue gills left and right.. think maybe my plastic blunt tube bobber might have been scaring the fish away.. Did i mention only a few of our fishing poles were operational and we only had a bobber or two..

Thank god no game wardens stopped by cause I know I didn't have a fishing liscence..