Collins when Henderson is Cancelled

I’ve been anxiously preparing to fish at Henderson Springs for the last couple months .  Its been a brutal new year with the record rain and snowfall  putting an atmospheric river running through most of my fishing this year.   I have forgotten what clear water looks like.  No one is getting any stripers at the…

Tying Lee’s San Luis Smelt

  Im lucky to share my home waters with some pretty amazing fly fishermen.  One of the greats on San Luis and the Forebay is Lee Haskin who I had the pleasure of connecting with at the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show  last week.   With Lee’s permission,  I was able to Film him tying his iconic…

The Plesenton Flyfishing Show 2023

This past weekend was the Pleasanton Fly Fishing Show, where some of the world’s most renowned fly fishing experts came together to demonstrate sensational techniques and share tips on how to catch bigger fish.  I met Wayne there to book some trips for this year as well.   From learning how to tie incredible flies and…

One Hit Wonder

  Saturday February 18, 2023  – Today I got One Hit and Im Wondering where all the fish are.     After last weeks skunk on the Forebay,  I decided to torture myself again on the Big Lake and hopefully get better odds in the clearer water.   The Forebay is still extremely turbid.   When the fishing …

Hello Stars, Hello Moon , Hello Chineese Spy Balloon

It appears that fishermen aren’t the only ones using Livescope to find stuff in the water.  I bet there is some really great technology thats even more powerful than the LV34 transducer and livescope sonar in perspective mode.    Maybe someday there will be 360 degree livescope. The Google AI project was a project know…

Where did they go?

Man I was pumped to show Dan the best day in years at the forebay but great makes good feel bad.    We launched about the same time as yesterday but the morning was fogged in at 9:00.   It was warm and still because of the fog.   I headed out slowly to Check 12 and…

December Blitz

Sunday Dec 4,2022   Hoping for a day just like  two days ago on the forebay,  I jumped on the opportunity to fish when the weather report changed.  Another calm west wind day  with no rain was predicted for Sunday.  The fishing has been good for me these last weeks and Im figuring out how to…

Rain Window

Friday Dec 2, 2022   Some work weeks can’t go by fast enough.  All last week seemed like there would not be a weather window to fish this weekend,   but on Wednesday a windless rainless day popped up on the prediction and I was all in to get back to those big schools of stripers.   I…

The Definition of Insanity

The Panoptix Recording are sped up over 1000X speed.   I took the video over several hours.   The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. -Albert Einstein. November 27, 2022. Sunday.  It was insane on the Forebay today,  not for the shear numbers of hookups, but for the…

Something Different

  Saturday November 19, 2022 –  After over 40 years of practicing Dentistry I’ve realized that to be at the top of your game,  you need to constantly learn what’s new and surround yourself with excellent people.  A good friend told me that you are only as good as your top 5 advisors when it…