I'm currently not in California at the moment. I've been in Taiwan for the last year. It took me a while to find fishing spots, understand the language barrier, and translate what fish is what into English. Imagine someone telling you the name of a fish in Chinese, and then you have to figure out what the scientific name is, or common name is in English. My next goal would be to look for some snakeheads here. I'm just having that language barrier again trying to ask around the tackle shops here. I have no idea what else they have around here.