I was beginning to think I was jinkxed with the weather at O’neill Forebay. For the last two weeks I’ve been trying to get out every day that I have been off work. Unfortunately, I’m about 50 percent these last two weeks when it comes to actually making the ride due to inaccurate wind…
July 25, 2021 – I receive many emails and texts asking what fly Im using in the Forebay and in the Lake. The truth is that I dont really have more than 6 flies in any style that are identical. One of the aspects of fishing the forebay and lake as my “home” waters is…
Friday July 23, 2021 – Today I scouted the Main Lake and Forebay. This year’s drought has already drawn the lake down to nearly 40 percent capacity. I haven’t seen it this low since the great drought. When the water gets low like this, sometimes you can catch some really big fish off the shoreline. …
Monday July 19, 2021 – Vaughn and I had the pleasure of being guided by Bryce Tedford on the Delta for some Topwater LMB Action. In all the years that I’ve known Vaughn, this is the first time we actually shared a boat. Having been heavily outfished by Vaughn , it will probably be the…
Sunday July 18, 2021 – There is nothing quite as satisfying as fishing with your dog or in this case fishing with your kids dog. Kimmie and I spent a nice day on the forebay . Some rare cloud cover and heat helped keep the winds down till 3:30. We had a window of calm…
Wednesday July 15 2012 -It wasn’t till 11:00 today when I decided to go and fish the forebay again. The last two opportunities paid off big and the odds seemed in my favor today. Last night I checked the wind to see if the pattern had changed and to my suprise, the winds were…
MONDAY July 12, 2021 – I have the week off. This week I was supposed to be in Cuba fly fishing the Jardines de la Reina but because of COVID, the airlines cancelled flights to Havana. It looks like we dodged a bullet since today (the day we were to land in Havana) thousands of…
FRIDAY July 9, 2021 -The Wind basically wipe the month of June off my fishing diary with high winds and ambiguous wind predictions. The best fishing of the month was when I challenged the wind predictions and won. Today was one of those days. The wind predictions have consistently predicted a small windows of…