The following posts have something to do with Fly Fishing in general and include trips I’ve taken to different parts of the world seeking that next great experience. Included are all the local trips as well. These posts are not specific to location.
“The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.” – Theodore Gordon
October 29, 2022. I just can’t seem to have an amazing day in October on the Forebay this year. To say the fishing this October has been wonky would be an understatement. According to Lee Haskin, the key to doing well on the forebay this past month is to fish it an hour after sundown. …
October 21, 2022 Friday – Some days it seems I can’t buy a fish out of the Forebay. I sucked today. Maybe I need to sacrifice something valuable like an Iphone in order to pull a rabbit out of the hat on a really shitty fishing day on the forebay. I had lots of…
October 14 & 16, 2022. My dear friend Dorothy Zinky can still cast a shooting head at 92. We got a rare chance to fish together this past weekend and despite my pessimism about the forebay after last weeks big zero day, we decided to scout around and see if maybe things had…
October 9, 2022 It been years since I’ve seen so many Dinks in the lake. After a couple weeks of not fishing the lake, it seems the water level has not changed much. The Dinosaur Point launch is still very shallow averaging about 10 feet deep most of the way out but at…
September 21 and 22, 2022 – This week Joe Biden proclaimed September 24, 2022 as National Hunting and Fishing Day and he called upon Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs and activities. I’m an American so I complied and headed to the Lake at the crack of dawn . I fished the…
MORE VIDS TO COME…… September 7-14 2022 The Sapsuk never disappoints and is why it remains one of my favorite annual trips. The main reason I love this trip so much are the regulars I fish with once a year. Preacher Mike, Jerry and Diana, Charlie, Kirk and Mark Won. Mark and Kirk couldn’t make…
About a year ago August, I got an email from my favorite rocker Paul Kype – famous Fishing Guide and Headliner in the band Texas Flood – of a beautiful Rainbow Trout. I recognized the silver beauty as a classic St Mary’s River rainbow. It had a small head, girthy body and perfect pink fins. …
A week before I left for Cuba, I had a day on the lake when thing just go south. The fishing on the forebay was slow but as the afternoon wore on, my Panoptix Live view LV34 system started to malfunction around 2:00pm. For some reason I started to get black triangles on the…
There they were tucked way under the Mangroves. Pelicans and Terns were diving through the branches to score an easy meal in the concentrated schools of sardines hugging the shoreline. The fish were feeding on the baitfish that were coming out from the shore cover with the outgoing tide. This was the moment I imagined…
We were somewhere 15 miles off the coast of Cuba on Day 3 when the asthma inhaler began to take hold. I remember feeling a bit congested and a little bit high from the albuterol and thought maybe I should burn one of my two covid test to be sure. Suddenly someone announced that the…
Hoping for a surface action repeat from two days ago, I timed myself to be on the lake when the wind switched hoping to locate those big schools of Surface Stripers in the glassy water. I didn’t see any schools today. I couldn’t “wish them” up as hard as I tried. Lots of…
Friday Jan 8, 2022 It’s always my hope when I set out to fish the lake or forebay to have a unique experience. This morning, I left the house not that optimistic that the day would be good. As I pulled up to the Dinosaur Point ramp, I could see the whitecaps in the bay…
July 4th needs to be celebrated. Each citizen and patriot in there own way needs to rejoice the day that the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the United States officially became the greatest framework for Freedom, Morality and Justice ever created by man. I celebrated the 4th of July by fly fishing San Luis…
Over the years, you learn that you should fish when the fishing is good and you should still fish when the fishing is bad. This week the fishing has been good at the racks . Having fished it three times in the last 5 days, I am especially grateful to the DWR for leaving…
After the great day we had at the racks last tuesday, I got a report from a friend about some big fish being caught at the racks and wednesday. Once in awhile a school of really big fish move into the racks and feed at a reasonable fly fishing depth. RIchard and I headed for…
I sometimes think of the Trash Racks as 4 giant teeth in need of flossing. Finally with a windless day in the forecast, I had a chance to make good on my promise to take Richard to the Trash Racks for a real “session”. My fellow veteran boat buddies, Tim and Brian, had…
Brian got his personal best striper on the Lake on Wednesday fishing a calm wind day on the racks. Brian had an epic day catching 45 good fish at the racks including the big one that he measured and weighed . According to Brian the fish was 39 inches and weighed 28 lbs. The fish…
Pleasure, Happiness, and a Seized Spark Plug What do neuroscience, Buddhism, Taoism, and Stoicism have in common? Turns out, quite a bit. They’ve all reached the same quiet truth: pleasure is not happiness. Fly fishing brings me tremendous joy, but yesterday I discovered a curious thing—I was just as happy extracting a seized spark plug…
The Wind line has been down for a couple months now. Its much more of a crapshoot to go down to the forebay when the websites call for marginally high east winds. Sometimes the wind can be blowing 10-15 mph from the east and the forebay is glass because of the hills blocking…
Saturday May 21, 2021 -The weeds are starting to get thick in the Forebay this month. I woke up early this morning because I’m still jet lagged from our Paris Trip, and between the hayfever allergies and the Jet Lag, I was not feeling 100 percent. I took a Covid test just to make sure…