The solonar tables predicted an EPIC day today this Chinese New Year. But instead of a parade of landed fish, all I caught were 5 dinks. I concentrated on the edges of the channels and the rock wall today. I fished the area between the islands and not a touch. I tied some skulpin flies…
Yesterday was the flattest day I have ever seen on the Forebay and today I received this message in my fortune cookie. Im still trying to estimate how big that fish really was that was caught last week on the Big Lake. There was a great post on Dan Blanton’s BBS from Captain Mike Costello–one the most…
Rick and I launched at Basalt boat launch at 11 am and fished till 4. I thought we might pick up a few fish trolling flies around O’Neill Dam where I saw a couple guys catch a couple large fish day before yesterday. We trolled around till 2:00PM without a bump. I figured we would…
When coach Jim Harbaugh sais the game was taken away from the 49rs by a bad call, it sounds like sour grapes. But if you look at the way the officials consistently favored the Ravens throughout the entire game, it makes even an impartial bystander wonder if the fix was in, especially after watching the replays. Hitting,…
The good old days are back. I just dont want to jinx it. I can still remember those 5 Superbowls. 1982, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1995. The first Superbowl win occurred in my last year of Dental School at Northwestern. I remember watching that game at Streeters Sports Bar in Chicago surrounded by 9r fans in…
Over the years, fishing in many destinations, you meet some people that are really memorable. Greg Gomola and Paul Kype are such fishing guides. The two of them are in a band called ZOJO Black. Check out the trout hookup at 3:15.
Finally a free day to get out to the lake after a cold and rainy weather pattern in the Bay area for the last several weeks. I havent done well in January in the past and the reports from the Delta and the lake have been pretty bad the last few weeks.…
What a weird day. This mornings first text from my son “Chip Kelly has left for the Eagles” followed by 5 more e-mails and a voice mail just letting me know that Chip had bailed on the kids at Oregon after all seemed copacetic. The word on the street is that he left because of…
The BCS college football season ends with The Tide drowning The Irish in a blowout that not even Rudy could have saved. Although the game started out like an Ducks Beatdown Romp, it was nice of Mussberger to break up the monotony with a ” babe sighting” . Entertaining was his semi rapist ogling –“Wow,…
As the last day of Mark’s Winter Break winds down, one more set at The Hook in Capitola before heading back to Oregon for the winter quarter. It may be awhile before Mark surfs his local beaches. The three amigos–Mark, Nikita and Brian ride one more time together on there local waters after finishing a…
With a blowout win over Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl, it’s clear to most that they are at least in the top two teams in the BCS. With K-State no match for Oregon at all and #3 Florida getting pounded by #22 Louiville in the Sugar Bowl. That leaves only three teams –Notre…
To understand why I follow Northwestern Wildcats Football, you had to have been at that fateful game in 1979–my first Northwestern football game–a 61-14 loss to Michigan State and the 29th loss in a row, breaking the record for consecutive losses by any college football team in the nation. I remember sitting with a bunch of first year…
To all the wonderful friends and family in my life, I wish you good fortune, good health, and lots of fish (because fish live in great places). Let us not forget those who are less fortunate and remember that we all have ways to help each other in small and big ways every day. Flash Mob Christmas…
We have these neighbors that are pretty special. Claudia is a fantastic baker. The kind of baker that makes wedding cakes that have their own airline ticket. Marcello is an audiophile\dj\technology wizard that has one of the largest most eclectic collection of lossless audio media I know and that is a huge amount of music…
Today racked our 20 gallons of wine. Racking involves siphoning the wine from the sediment. It is essential to the clarification of the wine and helps inhibit the production of unwanted off-flavors. Chromatography shows that our malolactic acid fermentation is complete and we have no more lactic acid in the wine. We added american oak…
This years we had much to give thanks for. Our family was together as the kids came back from their colleges for a couple days–like the old days. Mia celebrated her 22nd Birthday, Mark came home and surfed a day before preparing for his first set of College Finals, we had our traditional Thanksgiving meal…
The weather took a turn today and I headed out to O’neill Forebay for some exercise. Equipped with my new Helios II and Lamson Vanquish, I was more excited to cast than to catch. I left the house around 6:00 and by the time I hit the boat launch I was the tenth guy out…
For all great upsets, there is an equal and opposite despair. So ends the perfect season. Ducks football will survive and get stronger with three more years of eligibility for key players. There is nobody to blame. So many close plays. I just can’t bear to think of it right now but time will heal.…
First of all thanks, to the guys at the Orvis Shop at Santana Row in San Jose for helping me acquire this rod. I might have one of the first ones in California. They called me last Wednesday to tell me that Vermont was not sending them 8 wgts. I quickly called Orvis Vermont and…
It’s Veterans Day 2012 and Im fishing Oneal Forebay which gave me a chance to think about my favorite Veteran-my father in law Nick. Nick is a veteran of World War II – the Greatest Generation. He will be 97 this year. Nick took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He was awarded a…