I have seen quite a few bigguns on the lunkers page in the B.A.S.S. magazine from Casitas.
I have a crazy story about California fishing and one of the reasons I don't like thier laws that much:
Before my wife and I were married I took her out to Lake Otay Mesa in SD, she had never been fishing before. I loaded up the poles and went out. She was sitting away from the bank and I had a pole in and one on standby. She wasn't really into it. Then a game warden came up and asked for licenses, I showed him my military ID and thought it would suffice for a fishing license because I was told way back in boot camp that it sufficed for Hunter Safety Course(for weapons training) and fishing licenses. Well after we both got tickets for no licenses I reseached the military ID thing and it turns out that California is one of the few states that doesnt honor a military ID as a fishing license. I was told that it is just one of the perks of serving the country and took it for truth, an unwise assumption I guess. The warden told me if we both got licenses before the court date the judge may show leniancy and I disputed the future wife getting a ticket but he said two poles, two people, two tickets.
So we went to court with our newly aquired licenses and saw the judge. She said while she appreciated us getting the licenses she couldn't help us out. I paid for both of our tickets wich was over $800.00 and decided that since I had that much money invested in this girl already I should just go ahead and marry her.
So here we are, 4 years later, and now we check the local rules and regulations before we do anything.