February 22 – March 10 2019 The Panama Canal is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic. The canal is 51 miles wide and consists of 3 locks up and 3 locks down from Gatun Lake. The building of 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 Motorhome, but for…
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…
June 1 -3, 2018 : The Shad are in the Yuba and somewhat in the Sac. The afternoon was slow but for an hour before sunset, it was automatic in the evening if you were in the right spot. This weekend was the annual Sea Level Flyfishing Shad fishout. I was thrilled to see Ray…
Saturday April 21, 2018 -After a couple days to recover from three days of trout fishing, I found my self drawn to San Luis again. The prelim reports from other anglers suggested that the lake might be turning on. Steph was just as excited to get out on the lake today and we promised to…
“To him, all good things – trout as well as eternal salvation – came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy” -Norman Maclean I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges…
Sunday, April 8, 2018 – I haven’t fished the forebay for a year and I remember some great April days on the forebay years ago. I figured that if the wind was blowing when I got to the lake, I would fish the forebay and see whats cookin’. The forebay was at its maximum height…
Citizen Mark Baldwin and I fished the delta today with or friend and idol Steve Santucci. The weather was great today with a little wind in the afternoon but nothing we couldn’t handle. We all got fish today and put 15 in the boat. Mark caught most of them and a couple nice LMB. …
Friday February 10, 2018: Failure can make you apathetic or it can inspire. After last Mondays bust, I read some good fishing reports on Sunday and Tuesday that made me anxious to get back out with something different to break my jinx. Fish were being caught in the exact areas where I failed…
Monday, February 5, 2018– Well it certainly is not better that the worst day on Wall Street. I may have broke even on the lake today, but lost a big chunk of my portfolio today and it stings. I picked Monday to fish this weekend because I figured everybody would fish on Saturday before the…
I got lucky in so many ways today. After some mediocre reports this week, I was not that optimistic heading to the lake this morning but I am glad I did. Last night Gina an I watched an amazing basketball game at Oracle as the Warriors who trailed till half time pulled off a close…
Last Monday, Dan Blanton got a 23 pounder out of the west side. That’s an amazing fish for December in my opinion. December for me has been one of the slowest months of the year for me in the past. But it must be just me. Vaughn, Dan and Mark B all seem…
Sunday, January 14 2018: Its official, today, on my first fishing day of the year, I got skunked on San Luis. I almost forgot what it feels like to have a S$&*T hole day,. Steph got three yesterday, and last week was slow but most guys caught at least a couple. I really wanted one…
Both kids came home and are on mini vacations today leaving me free to fish. Mia and Ryan are in Napa for a couple days and Mark is with Phoebe skiing at Whistler. It was a perfect day to hit the lake. The temps got up to 72 degrees today even though the truck…
It’s possible that today was the last fishing day of the year. The lake is super hard now with nobody getting much fish and much effort. The trollers and gear guys were shrugging their shoulders. The cleaning station garbage cans were empty at 3:00 in the afternoon. But despite how slow it was today, the…