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…
One of the reasons I bought the 4wd Mercedes Sprinter Van Conversion was so that I could tow a 3500 lb boat and still camp. The other major reason I bought the Revel 4×4 is that I could park the 19 foot van in a regular parking space. The latter is less achievable with a…
In 1985 I invested in a startup company that went broke that was trying to build satellite uplinked internet access stations that ran on Solar Power, The million dollar concept was to enable third world countries with no internet backbone to provide internet to everyone corner of the world . At the time it was…
July 4th needs to be celebrated. Each citizen and patriot in there own way needs to rejoice the day that the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the United States officially became the greatest framework for Freedom, Morality and Justice ever created by man. I celebrated the 4th of July by fly fishing San Luis…
Over the years, you learn that you should fish when the fishing is good and you should still fish when the fishing is bad. This week the fishing has been good at the racks . Having fished it three times in the last 5 days, I am especially grateful to the DWR for leaving…
After the great day we had at the racks last tuesday, I got a report from a friend about some big fish being caught at the racks and wednesday. Once in awhile a school of really big fish move into the racks and feed at a reasonable fly fishing depth. RIchard and I headed for…
I sometimes think of the Trash Racks as 4 giant teeth in need of flossing. Finally with a windless day in the forecast, I had a chance to make good on my promise to take Richard to the Trash Racks for a real “session”. My fellow veteran boat buddies, Tim and Brian, had…
Brian got his personal best striper on the Lake on Wednesday fishing a calm wind day on the racks. Brian had an epic day catching 45 good fish at the racks including the big one that he measured and weighed . According to Brian the fish was 39 inches and weighed 28 lbs. The fish…
Saturday June 11, 2022 – How about those Warriors beating the Celtics in Boston in Game 4 or the NBA Finals. Attending a Warriors Game party yesterday, I ran into my good friend Steve Sakamaki. Steve and I fished Jurasik Lake in 2018 and we really had not seen each other since before Covid. I…
What do neuroscience, Buddhism, Taoism and Stoicism have in common? They all figured out that pleasure is not happiness. Everything to do with the pursuit of fish with a fly makes me happy. Yesterday, I have never been as happy catching a big fish as I was extracting a seized spark plug from my old…
May 10, 2022 – The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial is a World War II cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, that honors American troops who died in Europe during World War II. Gina and I had planned a tour of Normandy to follow Gina’s Dad’s Battalion History through France for several years now. We wanted…
The Wind line has been down for a couple months now. Its much more of a crapshoot to go down to the forebay when the websites call for marginally high east winds. Sometimes the wind can be blowing 10-15 mph from the east and the forebay is glass because of the hills blocking…
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 not 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…
