Saturday May 18, 2019– I snuck out to the lake this Saturday morning to get a couple hours of fishing in despite the small window of opportunity forecasted by the weather gurus. I launched at the Dinosaur Point ramp at 7:30 in ZERO wind with only one other boat on the water. The forcast was…
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 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…