Mia on National News….
This morning, Mia appeared on Fox Business Newtork Live to discuss Plant Based Meat Substitutes.
Mothers Day on the Lake
Sunday May 12, 2019 – Despite it being Mothers Day no mother stripers were caught–at least no big mamas. The winds on the lake have been fluky this week. The pattern seems to be wind in the early morning with a lull around 9:00 with increasing winds in the afternoon. Today there was a very…
Banzai at the Lake with Steve Sakamaki
Friday May 5, 2019 -Steve Sakamaki and I fished the main lake today. I told Steve that I would wait for a good day to take him out and luckily, we had a great day. Ed Given was on the lake today and so was Vaughn and Wayman (the dynamic duo) who caught some monsters…
Friday at the Lake – another big fishless day (Resuscitator is still virgin)
Friday April 26, 2019 Steve Van Den Brand Horninge and I have been fishing Oneill Forebay and San Luis Reservoir together for years, just not in the same boat till today. Steve’s boat is in the shop, and he mentioned that he had a new rod that needed christening. Our mutual friend, Vaughn, has been…
Hunting Pigs, caught bacon.
Monday, April 22, 2019 – I can’t remember when I was so anxious to get out and fish the Bay of Pigs. With Vaughn Willet on a tear with three big bigger biggest Pig fish in the last week from BOP and my last trip out a week ago being my best of…
Henderson Springs 2019 – And then there were 7…
April 15-17 2019 – Good old Jim Cramer use to bug me about leaving at 5 in the morning to drive up to Henderson Springs. Henderson Springs has two main areas for groups of fisherman to live when they are on the ranch. “The Lodge” has 8 bedrooms and “The Cabin” has 6. The main…
Deep Water Stripers on San Luis Reservoir
Saturday April 12, 2019 -I use to think that after enough seasons on the lake, it would become easier to find fish each month of the year. The similar weather, moons, temperatures, would mean the fish would behave the same. The problem with that is every year the level of the lake varies from the…
Touring Australia with Dave Koz
April 27 – March 10 In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth’s surface diametrically opposite to it. Australia is nearly the antipode of the United States and is the furthest Gina and I have ever traveled. Three years ago, we discovered the Dave Koz Jazz…
Verdant and Full
March 23, 2018 I promised an old friend today that I would take him fishing on San Luis Reservoir today. Had I not have made those arrangements , I might have canceled the day. I woke up at 4am to the sound of pounding rain on the roof and rechecked the weather report for the…
Cruising the Panama Canal
February 22 – March 10 2019 The Panama Canal is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic. The canal is 51 miles wide and consists of 3 locks up and 3 locks down from Gatun Lake. The building of the…
Rest in peace my friend….
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know…
47 Hours
I just got back from the funeral of our accountant and friend Bob Lawrence. Last week we received a thin letter with the sad news and Gina and I took his passing very hard. Bob was our accountant from the very start of my career 36 years ago. His memorial today was attended by nearly…
The Last RV Trip
January 28, 2019 – I had a very good friend in 1992 come to me with a cash problem. He needed some fast cash and offered me a chance to buy a brand new Fleetwood Searcher 25 foot motorhome for half price. At the time, it seemed like a dumb idea with two toddlers at…
First Stripers of 2019
Saturday Jan 19, 2019: It seems like months have gone buy since fishing San Luis but not so much time that I didn’t remember how slow it was for me last November. Last year was not a banner year for me at the Lake. The fall fishing in the Delta was pretty good…
Mark And Phoebe are Engaged….
This weekend, My son proposed to his girlfriend of nearly 8 years. We couldn’t be happier. Six months in the planning, he popped the question on a local beach they love. A hour before they arrived at the beach, family members from both sides set the stage that mark had requested pitching a tent on…
More Jurassic Lake…
Its been a busy couple weeks since Ive been back from Jurassic Lake Lodge. Both Mia and Mark came home for the Christmas Break and we had a great busy family Christmas. The main event of the last two weeks however was my son’s marriage proposal to his girlfriend Phoebe of nearly 8 years. That…
Jurassic Lake Lodge – Worlds Best Trout Fishing
December 6-16 2018 A year in the planning, I finally made it to Jurassic Lake lodge this December and it was worth the wait. Perhaps the best trout fishing in the world, I had heard from some that it was too easy. My fishing buddy for this trip was Steve Sakamaki who has been to…
November Solonar Doldrums
November 16, 2018 -Its always when you want the solonar table to be wrong when you have a day like today. I called up Steve Sakamaki to solidify our plans for Stroble Lake (Jurasic Lake) in a little over three weeks and decided to take him striper fishing to warm up his casting arm for…
Fire puts a Haze on Bay of Pigs Stripers
November 9, 2018 – When the alarm went off, at 5:00am, for a split second I thought it was the smoke detector as the scent of smoke filled the house. It was from the “Camp” fire that leveled Paradise California yesterday and is turning out to be the most destructive fire in California’s history. …
Christmas Island 2018
October 20-30, 2018 The American Dental Association meeting went back to Honolulu this last month after 11 years. I received a call from my cousin Kenneth and Dr Les Wong about borrowing some equipment for a trip to Christmas Island after the convention. It didn’t take much convincing to join them since I had already…
It can’t always be good…
Sunday-September 14, 2018 -The fishing gods decided to hold back today. Two weeks ago I had a slow day with only two fish. Today was worse. After searching the shorelines for hours, I only got 3 undersized fish to eat. The weather was great and the lake was crowded. At one point, there were 5…