Sometimes you fish hours, days and years for one moment. An opportunity for a giant striper comes suddenly and often unexpectedly. In a second, you can see all your effort gone because of a bad knot, a botched set, or a lapse in technique. For my buddy Steve, one of those “redo” moments…
It’s never too early to prepare flies for a big trip especially when the trip calls for ten dozen flies minimum. My trip to Bolivia for Golden Dorado is not till next fall but I may be tying flies for three people. Hopefully I will get some help from my friends in Africa and can…
This weekend’s unsettled weather shut down my plans to fish San Luis this weekend for stripers. Dan Dee, an old San Luis fisherman, was in the bay area and was hoping to get a day with me on the Lake. Instead , we decided to go over to Bass Pro Shop and hang a while.…
When it’s not always raining there’ll be days like this When there’s no one complaining there’ll be days like this When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch Well, my mama told me, “There’ll be days like this” The fishing gods are fair. After giving me three of the biggest fish Ive…
I almost went fishing this morning but this week at the office was brutal after the Thansgiving holiday and I was pretty tired Saturday Morning after a long week and cutting down two christmas trees the day before. I decided to drive up to the Menlo Park VA and visit Nick my father in law with…
I couldn’t wait to get back to the lake after spending the last 4 days in Eugene Oregon. It was freezing in Eugene and I expected slightly warmer conditions in California, but the overcast day was cold with a 5mph wind chill. I had everything on and made the thousand casts hoping that would be…