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I've been in the East Bay for about 25 years now, am getting ready to retire, and am trying to figure out what places ought to be on my short list for relocating. I'm originally from MI, love being in and around the water (particularly, but not exclusively, freshwater), love trout and salmon (though my CA Buddhist friends have moved me a bit more towards the observer/admirer/advocate end of the spectrum than the frenzied fisherman I once was), and am eager to make trout water, or whatever is the nearest thing to it, part of my short list of relocation criteria.
The notion of, e.g., living on or by a trout stream or river is extremely appealing to me. So is the very temperate and activity-friendly coastal climate. (Again, I'm from MI, and have already done a lifetime's worth of shoveling snow... and, I'm as much of a serious year-round swimmer as I can manage to be at my age) I'm really eager to know whether there might be some nice places on or near the coast with some flowing trout water, or the possibility of anything like it in the near future.
Since the Bay area now feels like home base, I've been looking up the coast from SF through Mendocino County. And, since I have good friends in the Ventura-Santa Barbara area, I've been looking down the coast from SF through Ventura County. I'd really like to know where there are such streams, rivers, etc., and any thoughts anyone might have on the areas by/around them as places to live. I've gone on line some, and gone through at least a couple of books that I thought might be of help (e.g., Tom Stienstra's California Fishing), but, though helpful, everything I've read so far seems either pretty incomplete pretty old, or both.
Does anyone have any recommendations/tips/thoughts on promising locations? Please feel encouraged to send anything relevant along: Any information is helpful, and will be genuinely appreciated.
Thanks for any assistance.
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