Sunday March 30, 2020 -The word is out and it was a grand reunion at the Trash Racks this morning. The weather has changed since last week with light rain and winds. The water temps were 2 degrees lower and the water was clear. Steph and I decided to push our luck…
May 26, 2020, Day 72 -The last time I fished was with Gina on day 4 of the lockdown. Since then, much of the fishing in California was shut down by Governor Newsom. Most of my fishing buddies in Northern California still had private and remote access to fishing and there was no shortage…
Last year I ran in to Dave Cheserek at San Luis reservoir launching his tricked out float tube and it inspired me to upgrade my 30 year old pontoon boat. I think Ive bought a new float tube every ten years, I remember my very first inner tube style float tube that I bought at…
One of the first casualties of the Pandemic was caused by my lack of attention to the AlumaCraft Boat I had parked in the driveway. I took the boat out in early March to test it out the Battle Born 100 Ah 12 v Life PO4 Deep Cycle Battery I had purchased months ago on…
April 5 -DAY 18 of the Lockdown.- As the world makes a concerted effort to defeat a common enemy, we struggle to hang on to our lives as we knew them only a couple weeks ago. These last two weeks have been consumed by clinical and financial online webinars to collaborate with other dentist and…
Friday March 20 2020 Day 4 of the Pandemic in California – I took my wife fishing on San Luis for the very first time. It was one of the most memorable fishing days of my life for many reason least of which was catching fish. On day 4 of the California Shelter…
The most Catastrophic event in my lifetime is freshly underway. Our family is being tested by a worldwide event that will change the way we live from here on out. What feels like a science fiction movie or the first episode of Fear the Walking Dead is now a reality. A new tiny piece of…
Sunday March 8, 2020 The rains have returned leaving only one day this weekend without wind and rain. I thought last week I would be in Disneyland with family, but travel planes were postponed because of the ‘rona’ and I decided to “self quarantine” myself to the middle of San Luis Reservoir. Also I decided…
The problem with getting a site at our favorite Campground is that you have to make reservations 6 months in advance. Gina managed to score what I think is the best site on the beach at Francis Beach Campground for an overnight. Last Summer we sold the motorhome of over 20 years and purchased a…
Friday Feb 29, 2020 – Its official, San Luis Reservoir Fly Fishing for Stripers is on. Dan Blanton, Vaughn, and Steph all had great days yesterday. I was counting the days, doing dentistry this week , anticipating the weekend for another great shot at and epic day after last weeks great day with Kimmie the…
Feb 22, 2020 -I don’t know what happened this week that was different from the last that would make such a difference in the fishing in only 5 days ago. Maybe the racks have been hot since the beginning of the year. So many things came together today. Mark left for Cabo for his…
Sunday Feb 16, 2020 After a month of working on boats, I finally got the Crestliner out on the water today trying to catch some stripers. My first trip out on the big lake in January, I got skunked and since then others have hit the big lake and forebay with very little luck. …
I use to fish different lakes other than San Luis years ago. I finally realized the main reason for that shift was being cheap. Everytime I fish a different body of water with the Crestliner, I have to pay a fee to have it re-inspected for Quagga mussels. Even if I use it in waterways…
Dietician Mia Syn discusses the health properties and benefits of plant-based food options on her 4th appearence on Fox Busisness Jan. 09, 2020 – 2:31 US New & World Report just released its 2020 Best Jobs List. Social Media Influencer didnt make the list but PA, Dentist and Orthodontist for the third year in a…
The fishing gods found it appropriate to hand me a zero today–a long day with no hits or fish. The weather was perfect considering it had been blowing over 15 mph for the last three days. Gina gifted me a 10 inch Garmin GPSmap XSV Chartplotter and Sonar which I built into my…
This past year has seen amazing success for our daughter in her business -Nutrition By Mia. Her job as a social media influencer, nutrition and lifestyle consultant and TV personality has brought her success in ways we never imagined as parents. On this Christmas Eve 2019, she again appeared on Fox Business to talk…
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…
