The Panoptix Livescope is a pretty pricey piece of Sonar. It’s too expensive to put on both boats so I set out to build a self contained unit that could be easily be moved from boat to boat. Garmin actually builds a version of the Livescope for Ice fishing and there are various designs on…
November 18, 2019 (Monday) – The water temps are hovering around 61 degrees and the stripers seem not to be in a biting mood. The weather is still warm but the full moon cycles seem to have slowed the daytime bite. I heard through the grapevine that several large fish were caught this weekend…
November 11, 2019 – I thought the day might be tough because of the big full moon the night before. If it would be anything like last week, I figured I would find a few good fish right off the rocks of the dam. Today I concentrated my efforts on the dam and fished…
Saturday November 2, 2019 As the water gets colder, the fishing usually picks up at San Luis. November has always been a pretty good month over the years. I guess I am not the only person who knows about November. I launched early today hoping to find some topwater stripers and despite getting to…
It was tough fishing today. It was defined by a thousand casts in 6 hours for 4 hits and 4 fish. A day like today reminds me that fishing is not just the ten minutes of actually hooking and playing a fish. Fishing is the whole process of getting the boat ready, tying the…
Sunday October 11, 2019 -The harvest moon Is this week and I can feel the fishing entering the Fall Cycle. I arrived at the lake late today because of a Flat Tire on the trailer driving up 101. Luckily, the tire didn’t delaminate and blow my fender off like it did last time. …
One of my favorite things about salmon fishing is processing the Roe from salmon into Red Caviar. There was a day when catching a big ripe hen salmon meant bait for the next trip. Curing roe for bait is as complex and personal as any recipe at a Michelin Star restaurant. I recall Wayne…
September 5-15 2019 – In a recent article in Swing the Fly magazine, Glen Chen called the Sapsuk “Coho Nirvana”. Several years ago, I bumped into a fishing buddy, Surf Fishing legend, Mark Won at the Orvis store in Santana Row and he told me of a wondrous place in the Aleutian Islands with amazing…
Sept 1, 2019 – It figures that this Labor Day Saturday would be a hard day of fishing. I wanted to get one more day of Striper Fishing in before taking off for Alaska this week to try to catch Silver Salmon on the Sapsuk River. I met Tim Anderson on the lake. He…
Monday August 27, 2019 – After a week in Charleston not fishing, I was excited to get back to the lake as soon as possible. The wind pattern has changed and calm hot days are the norm this month. I got to the lake at 7:00 and it was already about 80 degrees. I was…
Sunday August 12, 2019 – It feels like going back to school fishing on the lake today. I haven’t fished the Lake in over a month and I had to relearn the lake from scratch. Over the “summer break” I changed the oil on the outboard, replaced the prop, and installed a Garmin ECHOMAP…
Not a day goes by that I don’t feel lucky and fortunate to have met and married you. Happy 36th Anniversary. My buddy Kenny sais it all for me… For You Kenny Lattimore For you, I’d give a life time of stability Anything you want of me Nothing is impossible For you, There are no…
July 26, 2019 – Is it too late to go in on Beyond Meat Stock? I think the young generation is very concerned about the carbon footprint of food. The movement in food science is what drives the meteoric rise in stock price of Beyond Meat up 800 percent since IPO. I think its safe…
No, I’m not fishing without underwear. Im talking about a new type of Skagit Fly line by OPST called the Commando Head. Casting the commando head has radically changed my fly line preferences forever. They have especially changed the way I cast large flies, indicators, swinging patterns, and large floating poppers and flies . The…
July 4, 2019 :Quite the accomplishment on July 4th 2019, when Mia’s nutrition charts made the top spot on BuzzFeed for a couple hours. Mia was “trending” on the 4th of July. God Bless capitalism, and God Bless America.
It is easy as a flyfisherman to forget that most of the Stripers caught in San Luis reservoir are caught by Baitfishermen, and gear guys. Many of the gear guys are experts and catch way more fish than I do. There is whole new generation of San Luis Striper fishermen that troll umbrella rigs, cast…
Sunday June 26, 2019 – The wind has been very fluky as of late at the San Luis Reservoir. When the highway signs warn of “Gusty Winds” over Pacheco Pass even when its calm, you can bet that the wind predictions may not be accurate. Yesterday (Saturday) I got excited when the wind predictions was…
This morning, Mia appeared on Fox Business Newtork Live to discuss Plant Based Meat Substitutes.
Sunday March 9, 2019 – Sunday was my idea of a perfect opportunity at San Luis, hot weather, no wind and the pumps pushing water into the lake. With the warm weather melting the snow in the sierras and the late rains of a couple weeks ago, for the first time in many years, the…
Chicago has always been my sentimental favorite city. I spent 5 of the best years of my life there going to school at Northwestern Dental School and it is the city where I met my wife. When Mark decided to go there for his Physician Assistant Masters Degree, Gina and I were thrilled that we…
The “Hex” mayfly is the second largest mayfly in North America (the largest is Litobrancha recurvata) and is know to reach as much as 1.5 inches in size. They live in muddy lake and river bottoms and hatch right before dark. Female Duns have lighter yellow bodies and smaller eyes than males and are typically…
Saturday May 18, 2019– I snuck out to the lake this Saturday morning to get a couple hours of fishing in despite the small window of opportunity forecasted by the weather gurus. I launched at the Dinosaur Point ramp at 7:30 in ZERO wind with only one other boat on the water. The forcast was…
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…
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 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…
