Gina scored a Sunday Night at Half Moon Bay State Park Campground and we headed over for a quick get together with Mark and Phoebe. I brought my golf clubs again but we got a late start to the campground and ended up in traffic on Highway 92 again. When the beach gets warm, the…
Monday July 6, 2020 – A fire on the foothills near our house gave us a scare. There were many grass fires over the 4th of July weekend in San Jose which doesn’t surprise me much since all 4th of July fireworks were canceled. I can not recall ever having controlled city sponsored fireworks cancelled…
Not a day goes by that I don’t feel lucky and fortunate to have met and married you. Happy 36th Anniversary. My buddy Kenny sais it all for me… For You Kenny Lattimore For you, I’d give a life time of stability Anything you want of me Nothing is impossible For you, There are no…
July 26, 2019 – Is it too late to go in on Beyond Meat Stock? I think the young generation is very concerned about the carbon footprint of food. The movement in food science is what drives the meteoric rise in stock price of Beyond Meat up 800 percent since IPO. I think its safe…
No, I’m not fishing without underwear. Im talking about a new type of Skagit Fly line by OPST called the Commando Head. Casting the commando head has radically changed my fly line preferences forever. They have especially changed the way I cast large flies, indicators, swinging patterns, and large floating poppers and flies . The…
July 4, 2019 :Quite the accomplishment on July 4th 2019, when Mia’s nutrition charts made the top spot on BuzzFeed for a couple hours. Mia was “trending” on the 4th of July. God Bless capitalism, and God Bless America.
This morning, Mia appeared on Fox Business Newtork Live to discuss Plant Based Meat Substitutes.
Friday May 5, 2019 -Steve Sakamaki and I fished the main lake today. I told Steve that I would wait for a good day to take him out and luckily, we had a great day. Ed Given was on the lake today and so was Vaughn and Wayman (the dynamic duo) who caught some monsters…
Friday April 26, 2019 Steve Van Den Brand Horninge and I have been fishing Oneill Forebay and San Luis Reservoir together for years, just not in the same boat till today. Steve’s boat is in the shop, and he mentioned that he had a new rod that needed christening. Our mutual friend, Vaughn, has been…
Monday, April 22, 2019 – I can’t remember when I was so anxious to get out and fish the Bay of Pigs. With Vaughn Willet on a tear with three big bigger biggest Pig fish in the last week from BOP and my last trip out a week ago being my best of…
April 15-17 2019 – Good old Jim Cramer use to bug me about leaving at 5 in the morning to drive up to Henderson Springs. Henderson Springs has two main areas for groups of fisherman to live when they are on the ranch. “The Lodge” has 8 bedrooms and “The Cabin” has 6. The main…
Saturday April 12, 2019 -I use to think that after enough seasons on the lake, it would become easier to find fish each month of the year. The similar weather, moons, temperatures, would mean the fish would behave the same. The problem with that is every year the level of the lake varies from the…
March 23, 2018 I promised an old friend today that I would take him fishing on San Luis Reservoir today. Had I not have made those arrangements , I might have canceled the day. I woke up at 4am to the sound of pounding rain on the roof and rechecked the weather report for the…
Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know…
I just got back from the funeral of our accountant and friend Bob Lawrence. Last week we received a thin letter with the sad news and Gina and I took his passing very hard. Bob was our accountant from the very start of my career 36 years ago. His memorial today was attended by nearly…
This weekend, My son proposed to his girlfriend of nearly 8 years. We couldn’t be happier. Six months in the planning, he popped the question on a local beach they love. A hour before they arrived at the beach, family members from both sides set the stage that mark had requested pitching a tent on…
November 16, 2018 -Its always when you want the solonar table to be wrong when you have a day like today. I called up Steve Sakamaki to solidify our plans for Stroble Lake (Jurasic Lake) in a little over three weeks and decided to take him striper fishing to warm up his casting arm for…
I thought that maybe today might be epic –no full moon, no wind, rain front coming. I hit the calm lake at 8:30 behind 18 other boats all with the same idea. No flyfishermen though. At 9:00 am at The Racks, it was standing room only with fluke, bait and downrigger fishermen everywhere. I…
Next year or maybe this year Im going to start my new years resolution to fish more local water next year. After this years road trip to Montana. I think I want to get back to basics and camp fish Northern Cali, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. I have a Lance Trailer but…
You know how those little home projects turn into monsters? Here is yet another story of how a small project turned into a major one. After the California Drought of 2012 through 2017, I decided to let my crappy lawn go brown which it has remained till this year. Even though our grapes were thriving…