Halloween Stripers

I spent Saturday tuning up my outboard that was misfiring last weekend. I burned up a can of SeaFoam decarbonizer and also used some to clean the carbs. When I removed the plugs, they didn’t look all that bad but I changed them with new properly gapped ones. I changed the oil and filter. Also,…

The Delta – Yuk

Today, The Cal Bears football team got their asses handed to them by underdog UCLA. Stanford Football beat USC in triple overtime and a surfer in Monterey got wounded by a great white shark (I worry about Mark surfing). Wes and I fished the Delta today and managed 14 fish to the boat including 3…

Mia anchoring for CalTV

I never imagined Mia pursuing broadcast journalism as a profession. Not that she has changed her major though. I thought the Ann Curies of the world were born into it or something. I see my daughters skills getting better and I can imagine her working for a news station. It will be interesting to see…

Mia Syn’s CALTV – Ralph Nader

Mia had the opportunity to interview and do a piece on Ralph Nader at CAL (at 55 seconds). Nader was at CAL to talk about the effect of Sports Scholarships on the viability of great universities. You be the judge, but I must admit that I am a big fan of College Football and that…

Sacramento River King Salmon

On our way up to Pronghorn Resevoir in Oregon, we had the opportunity to fish for half a day with Wayne Syn of Orland Outfitters, on the Sacramento River. My cousin Kenneth Tan landed a 20 lbr on a sardine|crawdad wrapped flatfish. The river is showing signs of its former glory having been closed for…