What a great Stadium. Our first game in the new stadium did not disapoint. Mias apartement 50 yards from the enterence guaranteed us close parking and I felt like a VIP. The Ducks killed the Bears 59 to 17. It was cold but there was almost more Oregon Green in the stadium than Cal fans.…
The must hit the magic sugar level of 4 brix today and I headed over to Fermentation Solutions and rented a 10 gallon press. Instead of buying a bunch of glass carboys for our 15 gallons of wine, I decided to by a 25 gallon Stainless Steel Carboy so that next year when…
Fishing San Luis is like a new ride at Disneyland You stand in line for hours for 3 minutes of thrill. No fastpass, no shortcuts, just hours of painful waiting. Monday was like that. The unseasonable hot weather and lack of wind was the the only excuse I needed for a Monday fishing trip.…
Today was a pretty good day considering how bad last week was. I landed ten in the trench fishing for about 3 hours. The weeds are breaking up and its hard to find the lines but I put the boat on the lines in the trench with sonar and managed to find some pods…
After 6 days, the Brix on the Must is down to 18. It has to go down to around 2 before we press which gives me a couple days to fish. Mark came home from Oregon for the weekend and it was great to see him after not seeing him for 6 weeks. He’s doing…
After talking to Eric at Fermentation Solutions in Campbell, we realized that we kind of “lost it” with the sugar addition–his words. He told us to call him next time we are about to make a dumb mistake. I took my new Refractometer over to the vinyard and started testing some grapes and a random…
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer Its hard to believe it been three years since we planted those bear root vines. Today we harvested our grapes to make our first batch of wine. We ended up with about 100 lbs of grapes, De-stemmed them by hand and we now have about 12 gallons of MUST…
In her last year at University of California Berkeley, Mia juggles her upper division studies with CALTV. Today, CAL was again ranked the number one public university in the world by Newsweek, the top 21st nationally, and #2 in Biological Sciences nationaly Newsweek also ranked University of Oregon 55th in the country for public schools…
The weather was perfect, the tides was moving, the wind was down and its Prime Time in the Delta. Wayne and I fished the Delta today from 6:30 AM to 2 PM and managed 16 nice fish between the two of us with one 7 lbs. The fish were healthy and Wayned owed that 7lbr…
I think I really like Oregon trout fishing. This years trip to Pronghorn marks my third trip to this destination in southern Oregon and my 5th trip to Oregon this year. On this trip were Benson, Victor, Judy, Kenneth and Les. The fishing was not on par with the past trips mainly because the water…
Decided to fish the Dam this morning for a couple hours before catching up on chores at home. I thought it might be hot, but the only thing that was hot was the weather. The Wind line was down this morning and I took a chance and got to the lake at 7:00 AM and…
I havent fished San Luis Reservoir since July. Its been a busy few months and despite the great Salmon and Trout fishing trips that I have taken to Alberta, Oregon and the RED HOT Sacramento River, I keep thinking of how great the fishing is at San Luis in September. Here it is, …
Friday after work, after a really busy week, the office decided to take it out on bowling pins, The teams split between Gina, Me and Irena vs Delyne, Kathy and Maureen ended in a tie with the tie breaker TBA. It was a great way to end the week and we discovered that Maureen can…
The Grapes are ready!
There comes moments in ones life when you feel like something epic has happened but you cant put your finger on exactly what it is. I felt that way this weekend as we made the ten hour drive to Eugene Oregon to set up our son at the University of Oregon. This picture sais it all–its hard…
Tenkara fly fishing for Carp in the local lakes and parks could be a fun diversion. I recently lent my heavy duty Tenkara rod –the “Unagi“- to my buddy Rick who is using it these days to stalk large carp. This was in the paper yesterday. The Unagi -4205 is a good all around choice for inshore…
Somewhere in my genome is the genetic code of a hunter gatherer. I admit it; I love to meat fish (within legal limits of course). As Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma eloquently points out, if you are going to eat fish, the best fish you can eat is wild fish that you have caught vs sketchy…
It never gets old fishing Alberta in August. Seems like no matter how many times you go back on the same weekend of the year, there is always something different. This year we had the best weather. No wind except for a rainstorm that hit right in the middle of the week. Conditions favored hopper…
This past weekend we spent in Eugene Oregon while Mark signed up for his classes and went through orientation. Mark and I had a chance to fish the McKenzie River about 40 minutes outside of town with Tod from the Caddis Fly Shop. I had never fished out of a real McKenzie river boat and…
Lately I have noticed a resurgence of political water issues and controversies. This morning’s paper mentioned that Santa Clara Valley Water District is putting on the ballot in November, a proposal to raise parcel Taxes in order to generate 548 Million over the next 15 years for flood control work , Seismic repairs on the…