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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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. …
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…
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…
I thought that maybe today might be epic –no full moon, no wind, rain front coming. I hit the calm lake at 8:30 behind 18 other boats all with the same idea. No flyfishermen though. At 9:00 am at The Racks, it was standing room only with fluke, bait and downrigger fishermen everywhere. I…
Monday September 24, 2018 – I love the Fall at San Luis–the calm days, the big fish at the racks and the cooler weather. September is almost over and unlike Septembers past, I have not brought a really big fish to the boat this year. I remember the lake last year at this time was…
Next year or maybe this year Im going to start my new years resolution to fish more local water next year. After this years road trip to Montana. I think I want to get back to basics and camp fish Northern Cali, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. I have a Motorhome, but for…
Sunday Sept 16 2016 -The reports coming from the lake and forebay from the bait fishermen and trollers suggest that the lake is starting to put out some big fish. A 20 lbr was caught at check 12 in the forebay last week and trollers have picked up fish over 20 lbs trolling at 50-100…
Monday Sept 3, 2018 – Today I almost got seasick on San Luis Reservoir. The San Luis Gentleman’s club hit the racks with success yesterday landing over 100 fish between them all in calm weather and no Dam Police. Today’s weather report looked like yesterdays-a little wind in the morning dying down by 9:00 am. …
August 26 – Sept 1, 2018 -It doesen’t seem right to lead off this post by saying that this is the worst week of fishing Cam and Pauly have seen in 17 years. The abnormal for them was still pretty exciting and new for me having memories of some of the hottest weeks in…
Sunday August 19, 2018 -Its been a month since I’ve fished the Big lake having been blown off the water basically the whole month of July. The last time I fished the lake was with Steve and we caught a bunch at the racks fishing deep. I was hoping for a repeat. It turned out…
When I think of Selective Trout -smart trout that test your knowledge of entomology, your skills as a fly tyer and your fly casting skill – I think of Railroad Ranch. Its always been Railroad Ranch. Railroad Ranch gets its name from the Oregon Short Line Railroad which purchased the Thurmond Ranch Homestead in 1997…
The wind kept me from fishing San Luis this morning although I did notice a window of opportunity between 10 am and 2 PM Instead, I spent the afternoon with Rick looking for some new Carp Water in Santa Clara. We searched the shallows of Anderson Reservoir. Anderson is closed to boating and is…
As I get older, its harder and harder to get up in the morning to fish. I try to REM for every minute till that alarm goes off and then I have the coffee, breakfast, meds, bathroom routine down to exactly 20 minutes. Then another 10 minutes to put the boat on the truck…
I got really hot and then really cold for 360 cameras. After editing one of my best friends weddings shot in my absence with a GoPro Fusion 360 Video Cam, Im hot again on these novelty cameras again. Im a sucker for 3D, VR , Hi Res sports cams to record my fishing adventures.…
You know how those little home projects turn into monsters? Here is yet another story of how a small project turned into a major one. After the California Drought of 2012 through 2017, I decided to let my crappy lawn go brown which it has remained till this year. Even though our grapes were thriving…
I dont think I ever caught so many cloned 17 inch schoolies ever. Our biggest today was only 20 inches but very few were like that. Today Steve and I caught over 40 stripers in San Luis. I hadn’t fished with Steve since last year in Bolivia, and he’s still got the moves at 86…
