Bass Pro Almaden is almost done!

The grand opening of Bass Pro Shops in San jose is scheduled for sometime in October.  There will be job openings for Tracker Marine Boat Center, and Uncle Bucks Fishbowl Restaurant.  Here is the Job fair notice.   Its almost done! By Christmas, We can all hang out at the New BASS PRO SHOP not…

Light Weight Switch Rods

Switch rods are a great way to cast further with less effort and stress on the elbow and shoulder.  I love my big rods for steelhead.  I use a Sage TCX 7wgt Deathstar and a Scott 6 wgt  12 footer to cast pole dancers at stripers.  A  couple months ago I fished for trout in ponds…

Fishing RX for Tennis Elbow and Rotator Cuff wounds

Fishing must be good this year if by May,  I can hardly cast and set on a trout or striper without pain. The winds been blowing hard at San Luis the last few weeks and I haven’t been able to get out on the weekends.  Last weekend,  I recall 39mph winds at 7:00 in the morning…

The One

I just picked up the Orvis One Piece Helios 2 8’11” 8wgt from the San Jose Orvis shop. It’s been a long time since I used one piece rods and the last time I remember using one was when I was building rods back in the 70’s. When I finally had a chance to try…

I thought I was going Looney spotting that UFO. Turns out I was….

I received and interesting post from a UFO expert that sovled my UFO over San Luis Reservoir Mystery last year April.  Thanks to Harold Daniel, the site admin fro UFO Sightings Report, it appears that the floating Pants UFO I photographed fishing San Luis on 4-16-2012 was actually google project called LOON. Google is proposing a…

Alberta 2013

After the massive floods that hit Alberta only a couple months ago, it was good to know that the rivers of Alberta can survive the big flush and still hold hungry trout.   As usual, there were unique opportunities and situations that make returning to Alberta a ritual, like Wayne’s fish that jumped onto the…