Gina and I met our good friends Bob and Marianne for a one day camping trip with the RVs at Half Moon Bay State Park. We booked a Sunday night and found the campsite actually not full. What a great campsite it was with electrical hookups in 40 of the 50 sites, free fast internet,…
Last Thursday, Vaughn emailed me about a great day he had on the Forebay on Wednesday. He said if you could see them on the sonar, you could catch them. It was such a good report, I completely forgot about the terrible day I had last Monday and guessed that the 360 sonar would make…
Last weeks session with Dan Blanton on Oneill Forebay left me experimenting with flies that have action on the pause. He used a fly that featured a brass rattle tied to 80 lb mono that rear weighted a three inch flashtail clouser. The end of the mono had a burnt knob on the…
At the end of the day, neither of us could figure out after knowing each other since 1973, why we hadn’t fished together somewhere together, even by accident till today. “Eventually the law of averages catches up with you.” After scouting around last week and this last Saturday in anticipation of taking Dan…
This weekend I was very anxious to use the Autochart Function in Oneill Forebay in order to get a better idea what was under all the waypoints I have collected over the years in areas that are typically productive. What I got today was a post graduate education in the kind of water Stripers…
Its been a long time since I caught a bunch of stripers from the forebay. After November’s big fish, Ive been concentrating on large fish in the main lake . Also, I haven’t caught a single striper in my last three trips to the big lake. So to get back into the groove and…
Its been weeks since I fished and I couldn’t have picked a better day to start off 2016. The temps were in the mid 70’s and the water temp was 52 degrees. The reports from the lake have been slow but today the solonar tables were peak and the crowds were light. Maybe its…
Its been many years now that the most used fly lines that I own for Stripers have been home made t-14 shooting heads. For a time, I really liked the integrated fly lines made by Rio and Airflow. Integrated fly lines are easy to handle, tangle less, some don’t stretch and they have tapers on the…