I estimate we’ve spent around $400,000 between Cal and Oregon. Tuition at Cal and Oregon should come with a couple complimentary primo seats for at least one football game. If they did, this would be it. Gina and I went to the first college game to be played at Levi Stadium last night and we…
Cousin Wayne lands this killer 24 lb beast in the Delta. I should have been there. Perhaps Sunday if the weather is good. Meanwhile, while I play at home till Sunday. Teams winning the third game of the World Series have gone on to win the Series 16 of 19 times. That said, Mia and…
I was back to Sugerbarge Friday night to get a head start on Saturday morning. I picked up my cousin Wayne at Korth’s Marina. He drove down from Pyramid Lake where he said the fishing was slow and we had a chance to fish for 6 hours before he had an event to attend that evening. Not…
Sunday, the wind really started to blow. I braved the white caps and looked for sheltered areas to fish. I ended up only catching 5 good stripers and hardly any dinks. On my way in, I fished Pipers Slough as it empties into the Track. The wind was building and was blowing 20 when I…
I headed over to the north delta to meet up with Wayne and the twins who launched at Korths Pirate Lair Marina at Isleton. I fished the moring tide that peaked at 8:00 at Singapore Cut near Prisoners Point. Working the area along the weeds I managed to pick up 4 good stripers on floating Crease…
The tide peaks at 7:00am. Hope the wind dies down. The Gods of fishing were kind to me on my first official day on the Delta on my own. As has been mentioned by many “experienced” Delta flyfishermen, the Delta is truly a river that runs in both directions. Current is the key. My neighbor…
Last sunday, I finally got the motorhome situated in site #21 at Sugarbarge RV Resort on Franks track in the Central Delta. for the Striper Season that runs through May of 2015. Thanks to my good friends Bob and David Broedlow, I was able to catch ride back to the bay area.since Gina is out…
Having both your favorite college football teams beat by the same team is a new type of agony. The Arizona WIldcasts for a second year in a row upset the Oregon Ducks. Two weeks ago they beat CAL with a Hail Mary pass. You can blame last nights Duck fail on many things that are not that surprising. The…
If all goes well, Ill be fishing the Delta from here on out. I decided to give San Luis another try this morning hoping last weeks slow day was a fluke. The day started out very windy. The east winds really whip up the 156 bridge channel. I only managed 5 fish and all caught…
The weather and wind finally got reasonable after Saturday and Sunday Morning 20 Plus mph wind. Monday was calm and warm and the solonar tables were 4 stars. Somebody forgot to tell the Stripers that it was a stellar day for fishing. I ended up with only 5 fish for the day and one LMB, …
Its been a little over a week and today the must is at 4 Brix. I rented the press from Fermentation Solutions for $30 bucks and pressed must into the Carboy. This year’s yield looks like about 30 gallons and it actually tastes pretty Zinny. I might have accidentally made a pretty good…
Ain’t tech grand. With the wonders of streaming technology, I can now do two of my favorite things at the same time– Fish for Stripers and watch College football at the SAME TIME. No TIVO or VCR or people who tell you the score before you watch the game. There something much more fun about watching…
This year, I decided to make a good effort to learn how to flyfish the Delta for Stripers. It is possibly one of the best fisheries in the North American Continent, and its only an hour and a half from home. Yet, I dont know hardly anything about it. Driving a boat to and…
The 2014 “Synfandel” is in the history books. Gina and I picked grapes early this morning. Preliminary BRIX ratings averaged 25 so we decided to pick the best of the grapes aiming at a yield of 20 gallons. In a couple of hours, we ended up with about 200 lbs of grapes with at least…
Today I picked up the necessary ingredients from Fermentation Solutions for this years Zinfandel. Tomorrow is the 2014 harvest of the Vineyard Grapes and I am reviewing our protocols for this year. Hopeful this will serve to remind me what the process consists of in future harvests. I tend to forget. Day One – Harvest…
I set out to catch a big fish today and I did, but not in the place I thought I would catch it. I arrived at the Basalt Ramp on the Big Louis at 8:30 and there were three boats pulled over to the side waiting for someone to bite the bullet and launch. The…
I was going to fish this morning but I remembered that today, will be the opening of the biggest free bet offer and I have to quickly sign up and get free rewards, the first day of the Labor Day Weekend, is the opening day of College Football. I faced a decision this morning ,…
Oneill Forebay will always have water in it as long as all of California’s powerful politicians live in Southern California and support the rape of Northern California Delta water supplies to water their lawns. Oneill Forebay is filled by delta pumps and by San Luis Reservoir which acts like a buffer to hold water…
It’s Grape harvesting season again and I’ve started to measure the BRIX of our crop on a daily basis now. The day you pick determines the quality of wine. The usual timetable for our vineyard is sometime between now and November. Typically its been mid September but many of the vinyards in Napa Valley are already…
Do you feel that in the air? Ducks football is about to start again and finally a worthy preseason game in a few weeks–September 6th, the Ducks play the defending Rose Bowl champions Michigan State at Autzen Stadium in Eugene and the first year of the new BCS rankings begins! Preseason polls rank Oregon number…