Mark and I fished San Luis this morning when the wind let up after two weeks of +20mph winds. The lake is at least 80 feet below its high water mark and its a different experience fishing the Lake when its half its normal size. You almost have to throw everything out that you’ve learned…
There was a day when I would have taken a bullet for a trout stream in my back yard. Today, I am cynical and frustrated. Ive lost hope that we can save our fisheries in Northern California from the plight of overpolulation and agribuisness needs. We environmentalist in reality have only one more card…
[fsg_gallery id=”1″] I put in a full day at the lake today–about ten hours. The wind finally died down on the lake and crowds were out being the 4th of July Weekend. It was a wierd and crazy sight to see jet skis, waterskiers, and swimers outnumbering fisherman on the lake. I launched and…
Ten Days ago, Mark underwent ACL surgery at Kaiser Hospital. Here are the Arthroscopic Photos of his successful surgery. The circled area is where his ACL should be. It has atrophied since the tear a couple months ago. The surgery involves an autograft using Mark’s own Patella Tendon. A strip of it is removed with…
Went out today; got nuthin’. “Had fun though”. My cousin once said that’s what guys who cant catch fish say. I agree. The Lake is low and the water is warm. I think the stripers are schooled up deep in over 80 feet of water (Portugeese Bay and along the dam). Its time to hit the…
I was skeptical about this trip when our bi-annual red-fishing trip turned into a family reunion when 10 of my relatives and family ended up going to New Orleans with our fishing group not to fish but to hang out in New Orleans. I turned out to be a great vacation after all. In fact,…
Today is a landmark day in our lives as our youngest graduates from Leland High School–my alma mater. Mark leaves Leland with 4 years of elected ASB service–voted by his peers in the yearbook as “The Most Involved Student” at Leland. As ASB VP his senior year he MC’ed the School Rallies and made the…
I just got back from three days of fishing with Mark. With Mark leaving for college soon, I know these trips will be rare and I really enjoyed my time with him alone. We returned to Antelope Creek Lodge again this year and like last year we ran into a freak snow storm which…
I dont remember the record for consecutive windy days on San Luis Reservoir but it seems like for weeks now its been way too dangerous to take the boat out. So now I just sit in it and modify it to accomidate fly fishermen. I took the boat out this weekend for a s…
I think “Game Changer” is an over used cliche but her we go again, and Im not talking Facebook hype either. I’ve been using Premier Pro CS6 on a MAC for about ten hours and already I can see that this will now be my goto editing software. This is going to hit the FCX…
Gina and I can’t help but feel nostalgic and sad that this will be the last of our kids proms that we get to photograph and enjoy watching. The preparation and excitement will be missed. This years prom is at the Fairmount in San Jose. Only a week of school left and goodbye Leland High School.…
The biomass in Pronghorn Lake must be incredible! Between the 6 of us fishing the lake for two days, two fish were caught over 20 lbs and at least a dozen over 5 lbs. Overall we all caught in total hundreds of fish. That makes this lake one of the most prolific TROPHY trout lakes I…
Last years half a dozen flies that Bob V. took to Christmas Island are somewhere in the South Pacific hanging off a Giant Trevaley mouth. This years dozen recruits look nervous and they should be. The blue and white rattled “Synheads” will be committing suicide in mid May in the waters of Kiribati.
The new boat is a 2007 Crestliner 1650 Sports Angler. It sports a 90 HP Honda with 143 hours on it and best of all it fits perfectly in the garage. I have some ideas about how to modify it for flyfishing. The previous owner was a troller. The boat has three batteries with a…
I was surprised to see how many hits my silly fishing blog video –UFO Spotted over San Luis Reservoir–received in 5 days. A whopping 1500 hits. Someone actually downloaded it , re edited the fishing out of it and and reposted just the UFO part! When I pulled into the boat launch and spotted the object in the sky, it…
One of the reasons I built the Hackintosh was the ability to Dual Boot between WIN7 Premier Pro 64 bit with CUDA support and Final Cut Pro on OSX with a fast processor. There is no doubt that the the mercury engine is working on the Windows 7 partition so I decided to try the…
I just love shooting proms. I think this one will be my 7th event if you include Homecmoming dances. Shot with a Nikon D700 and a 24-70mm FX lens. These are my Favorites. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer
I knew in my gut today would be different at the lake. The Solonar tables showed a major period from 6 to noon, the cows were feeding in the grass on the way up. It was going to be epic. the first weird thing I noticed as I pulled over the rise and caught my…
Behind the scenes, two individuals who proclaimed that they work for Abecrombie and Fitch asked Mia after the filming of that piece if she would come to SF and be evaluated for an in store modeling position. Sounded kind of fishy to me so I researched it. Seems this may be a way that…
There are no direct flights to Eugene Oregon from SF or SJ. Today, it took us 10 hours to fly from SF to Portland and then to Eugene. We probably could have driven it faster. Mainly because of the rainy weather, but its been a long time since I had such an uncomfortable trip…