Saturday May 21, 2021 -The weeds are starting to get thick in the Forebay this month. I woke up early this morning because I’m still jet lagged from our Paris Trip, and between the hayfever allergies and the Jet Lag, I was feeling 100 percent. I took a Covid test just to make sure…
Wednesday May 4, 2021 – First Rule of Wednesday Fishing Club is don’t talk about Wednesday Fishing Club. Its common knowledge to many that Dentists traditionally take Wednesdays off to golf. If you’ve ever booked a tee time on a Wednesday, you probably know this already. Most doctors work a 4 day week and traditionally,…
Monday April 25, 2022 There has never been a day when Frank, Steve Santucci, Brian, Dan Blanton, Vaughn, and Richard were all out on the Forebay on a Monday. I got to the lake at 8:00am and I knew I was late when Brian, Vaughn and I all pulled up to the Cottonwood Launch at…
The Forebay has been hot this past week for everybody but me. Tim, Vaughn and Richard all fished the forebay last week and had excellent days. I took a chance on the weather today to try the forebay and was pretty sure that today would be epic. The day was slow for me…
After last months great trip, I could wait to go back this last week anticipating some dry fly fishing over those plentiful giant trout that we exercised in March. Two weeks ago, I passed on fishing Pyramid lake because of mild weather predictions. Luckily, it was the right decision. The San Jose Flycasters had there…
This report should be about Pyramid Lake and in a way it is. Up to last night at 7:00 PM. I was packed and ready to ladder up at Pyramid lake. I learned that the San Jose Flycaster was having their fish out this upcoming Monday. The next couple weeks are going to be very…
I was foolish today, April 1 2022, to think I could repeat last weeks epic day. The day looked perfect and I tried visualize epic before the day started but the fish just didn’t cooperate today. It wasn’t for lack of finding them either. I made lots of fly changes today without any clear winners.…
Friday March 25, 2022.- The forebay fished great today.The morning started out challenging. I fished the trench with a small brown and white clouser as I had last week and picked up fish in the trench fishing 15 feet of water. The fish are starting to exhibit spawning behavior in the 62 degree water. The…
Friday March 18, 2022 -This years Striper fishing in the forebay has gotten off to a very soft start. I haven’t been fishing it much because reports have been slow to fair and few attempts Ive made this year have been really tough. It’s so different than last year. But today I felt like the…
Its easy to forget about world events while fly fishing. Maybe its the reason why I fish – to forget about the stresses of life. A couple months ago, I heard about a new custom fly reel that was fully machined out of titanium — The VR Reel. These reels have the potential to be…
It is human nature always to find fresh cause for optimism. Henderson Springs came out of Covid in a big way. The quality of fish that Mark Henderson has put in the 5 lakes that make up this amazing compound obviously gained weight over the last couple covid years as did I with nothing…
It’s unfortunate that you have to book a beach side campsite at Half Moon Bay 6 months in advance. But that is exactly what three other Revel owners did. All parked with glorious views out the back of the Van. I don’t think I’ve seen that many in one place since we drove it off…
Finally back from Covid was the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show this last weekend. I crowbarred an entire day into my schedule on Friday to spend the day there – I am addicted to fly shops and this is where the fly shops come to you. The show was very different this year with only…
Friday February 19 2022 Even though the best reports from the lake and forebay these last few weeks have been fair to poor, I had to go back and look for myself, especially with February getting closer to the possible closure of the Lake. Some people have been hinting that the lake would remain…
February 9-12, 2022 With San Luis Lake and O’Neill Forebay still slow but warming up, I decided to do some exploration in the Revel RV looking for nice places to hang out and fish for trout. Luckily, my cousin Wayne had a couple windows to fish and we arranged to meet up with a…
February 4-7 2022 – Gina and I have never RV camped at a full hookup facility until we booked a couple night at Wine Country RV Resort. I may have spoiled Gina from camping in any other way. WIne Country RV resort is definitely the nicest most upscale and complete RV Resort we have ever…
January and February can be really tough months to find active fish anywhere. At least here in California, we don’t have to put up with much extreme and brutal weather. The steelhead fishing picks up in February but the winter trout fishing for me is mainly aimed at the Northern California lakes that stay open…
Sunday January 23, 2022 – It took 23 days into the New Year to head back out to the Forebay after my Zero Fish end of the 2021 day more than 4 weeks ago. Maybe my longest absence from the lake in a long time, it has been hard to go back and try after…
December 31, 2021 NEW YEARS EVE – It’s not like I didn’t try hard enough to catch one more striper in the year 2021. I did get to use my Annual Poppy Pass and Boat launch one more time. and it felt like making money at least. It was as tough a day as…
John Brezzo passed away at Good Samaritan hospital last Saturday 12/02/21, after a heroic fight against cancer. John has always been a “bigger than life” fly fisherman to me over the half a century that I have known him, as are many of the older flyfishermen I hang out with these days. When I…
Dec 11, 2024 – With the biggest atmospheric river storm expected to soak the Bay Area tomorrow, I figured the fish might be on the feed with the barometer drop. But with last nights bright moon and a poor solonar rating, the day was spent looking for biting fish-more looking than catching. We did some…
Saturday Dec 4, 2021 – I’m getting a feeling that nobody really knows what makes stripers in the Oneill Forebay eat. This year has been a strange Striper year all around. There are many who are saying that its one of the worst seasons on record. Many of the San Luis regulars in November…
Monday – November 22, 2021 Fly Fishing reports from forebay this week have been bleak. The moon was full last night and I had a feeling it would be a tough day. It will be two weeks before I’ll be able to fish the Forebay again and I decided to go out anyways and test…
November 4, 2021 – It was best not to expect too much today especially when I crested Pacheco Pass on a sunny morning only to find a thick fog bank hanging over the forebay all day. The Wind Line is broken and has been registering Zero Miles and hour for the last weeks. The…
Monday November 4, 2021 – Every time I decide to fish the Forebay, there is a split second while driving over the pass, when I get that first view of the East side of the lake of Romero to the Bay of Pigs, that there is an urge to blow off the forebay and head…
