Where do you go fishing when you live in a desert?

I have heard that fishing is a great past time, a great time to be one with nature, a great time to bond with family members.

I have heard it all, and I agree, but what do you do when you live in a desert and there really aren't many places to fish other than the community ponds that everyone else goes to fish at?

I tell you what you do, you go fishing at the local canals!

Yes that is right fishing in canals can be some of the best fishing around.

This last weekend I took the boy out to the local canal and we dropped a line in.

We didn't do all that well but we had fun and we learned what to do next time.

Across the way, we saw a couple of old timers sitting there bringing fish after fish.

Not only that, but these were good sized fish!

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Watch and learn.

We watched them for a bit and it appeared they were chumming the water with anchovies or some kind of dead fish.

Then they were dropping their line in off the bottom with a chunk of that same dead fish.

The result was them bringing in couple pound striper bass on the regular.

Here we were trying to use hot-dogs, which normally work pretty well.

Now we know what will catch the fish the next time we go!