Have you heard of any Landings overstating their daily fish counts. I recently went on a ¾ day boat with around 40 anglers at one of Southern California’s Landings. The boat was lucky to catch 25 fish for the day, but when I checked the web page on Monday it listed that the boat caught 135 fish. I was dumbfounded. So I called the landing and spoke to the manager and he told me that they had no reason to lie on the count. I persisted and he said he would check the boats log book and I would call him back the next day. I called him back and he told me the owner of the boat verified the numbers in the logbook and with the deck hands. I said that was not correct, because I was on the boat and I saw what was caught and cleaned. The manager told me that they are professionals and since I am not he would believe them instead of me and it was a dead issue that it wasn’t worth tying up in court. I asked who said anything about court. I called him back and told him I was totally unsatisfied with my fishing trip and wanted my money back. He told me I would have to pound sand on this one that he wouldn't’t give me my money back. He said I could send the owner a complaint letter and he would give it to him. I said good and asked for the address and he hung up on me.

Are the landings posting higher numbers to increase their business? Or are the moving numbers to cover over limits being caught? Or are they trolling with nets that their not supposed to? I don’t understand this, but I do know that they got very upset very quickly when I questioned them.


Thank you,

Fishy333