After 6 days, the Brix on the Must is down to 18. It has to go down to around 2 before we press which gives me a couple days to fish. Mark came home from Oregon for the weekend and it was great to see him after not seeing him for 6 weeks. He’s doing…
After talking to Eric at Fermentation Solutions in Campbell, we realized that we kind of “lost it” with the sugar addition–his words. He told us to call him next time we are about to make a dumb mistake. I took my new Refractometer over to the vinyard and started testing some grapes and a random…
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer Its hard to believe it been three years since we planted those bear root vines. Today we harvested our grapes to make our first batch of wine. We ended up with about 100 lbs of grapes, De-stemmed them by hand and we now have about 12 gallons of MUST…
In her last year at University of California Berkeley, Mia juggles her upper division studies with CALTV. Today, CAL was again ranked the number one public university in the world by Newsweek, the top 21st nationally, and #2 in Biological Sciences nationaly Newsweek also ranked University of Oregon 55th in the country for public schools…
The weather was perfect, the tides was moving, the wind was down and its Prime Time in the Delta. Wayne and I fished the Delta today from 6:30 AM to 2 PM and managed 16 nice fish between the two of us with one 7 lbs. The fish were healthy and Wayned owed that 7lbr…
I think I really like Oregon trout fishing. This years trip to Pronghorn marks my third trip to this destination in southern Oregon and my 5th trip to Oregon this year. On this trip were Benson, Victor, Judy, Kenneth and Les. The fishing was not on par with the past trips mainly because the water…
Decided to fish the Dam this morning for a couple hours before catching up on chores at home. I thought it might be hot, but the only thing that was hot was the weather. The Wind line was down this morning and I took a chance and got to the lake at 7:00 AM and…
I havent fished San Luis Reservoir since July. Its been a busy few months and despite the great Salmon and Trout fishing trips that I have taken to Alberta, Oregon and the RED HOT Sacramento River, I keep thinking of how great the fishing is at San Luis in September. Here it is, …