One of the nice things about keeping a fishing diary is the ability to go back in time and look at years past at nearly the same day of the year. After having one of the best days I have ever had on the Forebay only a couple weeks ago, I thought that maybe…
December 26, 2022. An atmospheric river is about to hit California tomorrow and run through the end of the year dumping much needed water on Northern California. I was planning on taking Mark and Gina out for dinner in Walnut Creek so if I was going to fish, it would have to be an early…
Man I was pumped to show Dan the best day in years at the forebay but great makes good feel bad. We launched about the same time as yesterday but the morning was fogged in at 9:00. It was warm and still because of the fog. I headed out slowly to Check 12 and…
Friday Dec 16, 2022 – As I pulled up to the forebay, my phone message lit up. Frank C had texted me in a rare tech moment, to get over to our spot from two weeks ago. There were no birds working the forebay for as far as I could see from the dock. …
Friday Dec 9, 2022. The day almost was cancelled on Wednesday when rain was predicted all day. I wanted to take Dan out again to give him another shot at those video game stripers now that he had the right flies and lines dialed in from last week. The more you fish with someone, the…
Sunday Dec 4,2022 Hoping for a day just like two days ago on the forebay, I jumped on the opportunity to fish when the weather report changed. Another calm west wind day with no rain was predicted for Sunday. The fishing has been good for me these last weeks and Im figuring out how to…
Friday Dec 2, 2022 Some work weeks can’t go by fast enough. All last week seemed like there would not be a weather window to fish this weekend, but on Wednesday a windless rainless day popped up on the prediction and I was all in to get back to those big schools of stripers. I…
The Panoptix Recording are sped up over 1000X speed. I took the video over several hours. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein. November 27, 2022. Sunday. It was insane on the Forebay today, not for the shear numbers of hookups, but for the…
November 25, 2022. Black Friday – I had the honor and pleasure of fishing with one of the legends of flyfishing. I have considered Dan my friend for many years now. since my teenage days at the Millpond Fly shop in Los Gatos. I’m 65 years old now, and very few of that “Greatest Generation” …
Saturday November 19, 2022 – After over 40 years of practicing Dentistry I’ve realized that to be at the top of your game, you need to constantly learn what’s new and surround yourself with excellent people. A good friend told me that you are only as good as your top 5 advisors when it…
Friday November 12 2022. Thanks to Ken Oda, we nailed them today in the Forebay. Even old dogs can learn new tricks and today school was in session for me with Ken Oda on the Forebay. One way to become a better fly fisherman is to fish with guys that are better than you. Surround…
Sunday November 6, 2022. It’s always a bad sign when good fisherman are calling it a day when you are launching. So was the case today this first weekend in November. On top of that was some not so good reports from the week as well. I felt like even if it was…
October 29, 2022. I just can’t seem to have an amazing day in October on the Forebay this year. To say the fishing this October has been wonky would be an understatement. According to Lee Haskin, the key to doing well on the forebay this past month is to fish it an hour after sundown. …
October 21, 2022 Friday – Some days it seems I can’t buy a fish out of the Forebay. I sucked today. Maybe I need to sacrifice something valuable like an Iphone in order to pull a rabbit out of the hat on a really shitty fishing day on the forebay. I had lots of…
October 14 & 16, 2022. My dear friend Dorothy Zinky can still cast a shooting head at 92. We got a rare chance to fish together this past weekend and despite my pessimism about the forebay after last weeks big zero day, we decided to scout around and see if maybe things had…
October 9, 2022 It been years since I’ve seen so many Dinks in the lake. After a couple weeks of not fishing the lake, it seems the water level has not changed much. The Dinosaur Point launch is still very shallow averaging about 10 feet deep most of the way out but at…
September 21 and 22, 2022 – This week Joe Biden proclaimed September 24, 2022 as National Hunting and Fishing Day and he called upon Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs and activities. I’m an American so I complied and headed to the Lake at the crack of dawn . I fished the…
One of the great things about my annual trip to the Aleutian Islands is bringing back Roe and Fish. The camp has a full size Freezer and given the huge yields of fish on the river, we are allowed to bring home some fish. I enjoy processing salmon roe and filleting salmon, perhaps it’s …
MORE VIDS TO COME…… September 7-14 2022 The Sapsuk never disappoints and is why it remains one of my favorite annual trips. The main reason I love this trip so much are the regulars I fish with once a year. Preacher Mike, Jerry and Diana, Charlie, Kirk and Mark Won. Mark and Kirk couldn’t make…
About a year ago August, I got an email from my favorite rocker Paul Kype – famous Fishing Guide and Headliner in the band Texas Flood – of a beautiful Rainbow Trout. I recognized the silver beauty as a classic St Mary’s River rainbow. It had a small head, girthy body and perfect pink fins. …
A week before I left for Cuba, I had a day on the lake when thing just go south. The fishing on the forebay was slow but as the afternoon wore on, my Panoptix Live view LV34 system started to malfunction around 2:00pm. For some reason I started to get black triangles on the…
There they were tucked way under the Mangroves. Pelicans and Terns were diving through the branches to score an easy meal in the concentrated schools of sardines hugging the shoreline. The fish were feeding on the baitfish that were coming out from the shore cover with the outgoing tide. This was the moment I imagined…
We were somewhere 15 miles off the coast of Cuba on Day 3 when the asthma inhaler began to take hold. I remember feeling a bit congested and a little bit high from the albuterol and thought maybe I should burn one of my two covid test to be sure. Suddenly someone announced that the…
Hoping for a surface action repeat from two days ago, I timed myself to be on the lake when the wind switched hoping to locate those big schools of Surface Stripers in the glassy water. I didn’t see any schools today. I couldn’t “wish them” up as hard as I tried. Lots of…
Friday Jan 8, 2022 It’s always my hope when I set out to fish the lake or forebay to have a unique experience. This morning, I left the house not that optimistic that the day would be good. As I pulled up to the Dinosaur Point ramp, I could see the whitecaps in the bay…
