John Brezzo passed away at Good Samaritan hospital last Saturday 12/02/21, after a heroic fight against cancer. John has always been a “bigger than life” fly fisherman to me over the half a century that I have known him, as are many of the older flyfishermen I hang out with these days. When I…
Monday February 22, 2021 – After scouting the Forebay on Friday, I was about to cancel Monday with Don on the Forebay. It’s getting hard to catch fish and I had my doubts about being able to catch fish basically blind casting from a chair. But as it turns out, I got out-fished by…
Perhaps the most memorable clip of film and music I have ever heard, that brings tears to my eyes everytime I hear it, especially in these dark days, is from Richard Harris at the end of the movie Camelot (1967). Arthur stumbles across a young boy who begs to fight in the “last” battle and become a…
Friday Jan 1, 2021 – The Season of Covid continues into a brand new year. This year on the lake has been a unique experience for me. I owe the lake my sanity. Fishing alone on the lake is probably the safest place I could be both physically and mentally and for that I am…
Friday Dec 4, 2020 – The Fishing at San Luis and the Forebay was getting pretty tough over the last couple week as the first rains and cold nights came rolling through the second half of December. Yesterday, California announced another massive stay at home order. Hopefully, they wont close boat ramps and As far…
November 25-30 – One of the best things we did a couple years ago is purchase a fractional ownership at Fairmont Heritage Place. Originally we purchased it to use the membership for the excellent deals on Suites at Fairmonts all over the world as well as preferential treatment at property restaurants, golf courses and other…
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…