Jerry Back

I live in San Francisco, but happened to be in Pacifica this past Sunday, on Mother’s Day.  Pacifica is just a 10 minute drive south of San Francisco city limits and I’d describe it as a small, mostly blue collar, coastal town with some majestic and sweeping ocean views.  Pacifica is also in possession of a public pier more formally...
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With the commercial crab season about to begin on Saturday, the 25th of March, I wanted to hit the beach one more time as a recreational crabber.  I don't think we really compete with each other--if we did, the boats and their thousands of crab pots would win hands down.  With striped bass season hopefully around the corner, I needed...
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With all the recent El Niño storms during the first half of March, conditions have not been favorable for surf fishing on Ocean Beach, a beach that serves as a border between the Pacific Ocean and my sleepy San Francisco neighborhood, the Sunset District.  The Sunset District is an unassuming place that features rows upon rows of quaint, mostly two...
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Headline: San Francisco Pier 7 Fishing - Revisited! What a difference a day makes! It’s been almost three weeks since my last visit to San Francisco’s picturesque Pier 7, so I thought I’d take a walk from my nearby office location during a lunch break to check out the fishing. We’ve just had several days of moderate rainfall...
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Illegal Fish Selling on the Streets of San Francisco02/26/16 --  While walking through the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown today, I spied an oldish-looking man sitting on the dirty sidewalk with his back against a bus shelter.  This was on Stockton Street--the central hub of all things edible in Chinatown.  Fish markets, poultry, pork, amphibians, crustaceans, fresh produce--you name it,...
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I live and work in San Francisco. I live near Ocean Beach, on the west side of the city, but work under the shadows of iconic Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid building on the city’s northeastern side. And just a few blocks from my office is Pier 7, a public pier that is frequented everyday by locals...
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