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…
Monday, April 22, 2019 – I can’t remember when I was so anxious to get out and fish the Bay of Pigs. With Vaughn Willet on a tear with three big bigger biggest Pig fish in the last week from BOP and my last trip out a week ago being my best of…
April 15-17 2019 – Good old Jim Cramer use to bug me about leaving at 5 in the morning to drive up to Henderson Springs. Henderson Springs has two main areas for groups of fisherman to live when they are on the ranch. “The Lodge” has 8 bedrooms and “The Cabin” has 6. The main…
Saturday April 12, 2019 -I use to think that after enough seasons on the lake, it would become easier to find fish each month of the year. The similar weather, moons, temperatures, would mean the fish would behave the same. The problem with that is every year the level of the lake varies from the…
April 27 – March 10 In geography, the antipode of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth’s surface diametrically opposite to it. Australia is nearly the antipode of the United States and is the furthest Gina and I have ever traveled. Three years ago, we discovered the Dave Koz Jazz…
March 23, 2018 I promised an old friend today that I would take him fishing on San Luis Reservoir today. Had I not have made those arrangements , I might have canceled the day. I woke up at 4am to the sound of pounding rain on the roof and rechecked the weather report for the…
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…
