You know there’s a problem with you get 5 voicemails at once; you know there’s a problem when your twitter feed get a flood of @morehadwares at once, You know there’s a problem when your kids friends are posting pictures of your house nearly burning up on there Facebooks in real time. Such was the…
Yesterday she was a baby and today she is an adult. Logic tells me that this is an absurd concept but now my baby girl can legally get plastered, gamble all her money away and do things without my permission legally. But, she wont because somehow, someway, Gina and I have raised a hard working,…
I’m going to miss helping the kids work on their physics projects. Four years ago, Mia set out to set a distance record in the the annual AP Physics Tresbuchet contest and was beat by a modified elastic powered catapult which in my opinion clearly violated the spirit and form of the classic ‘tresbuchet” . But that…
The best way to save money on Cyber Monday is to be on a lake fishing all day. Today an old friend met me at the lake and we managed to land a dozen Stripers with at least 4 keepers averaging 20 inches. It wasn’t a big fish day on the lake but Shane is…
It would be hard to top opening day last year at Eagle Canyon Trout lakes near Red Bluff but in my mind this year was even better being with Mark and the Boys (the Syn Twins). Some say that fly fishing is like riding a bike but there is no experience in fly fishing…
Its was cold on the lake today. Yesterdays rain and weather front marks the first cold day I have had on San Luis this year. The water temp was 62 and the fish were slow today–lots of single light hits with no return. Rick and I had scrounged up two limits out of…
I sure that even Russians can get tired of black caviar if they eat it three times a week. But now that my freezer is buffered with a weeks worth of stripers, its time to make something different than Chinese style steamed fish–especially now that I’m dealing with fillets. Besides being sure that the fish…
Addendum: Nov 23, 2011 After watching a bunch of other striper fillet vids, I think this guy has the most skill and looks like he does it alot. As a dental surgeon, I can see this guy has some real skills–he doesnt recut incisions, he uses long accurate cuts, hes fast because he know precisly…
Im sure if you have been fishing as long as I have, you have phoned a friend with that question on a slow day or wished you could instantly brag about the cool fish you just caught to your buddy down river. Technology has given fisherman new tackle just for that event. I recently learned…
Today, Victor from the California Fly shop hosted a San Luis Fly Fishing Clinic at Oneal Forebay. According to Victor, 20 people showed up and the fishing was good when you could find the schools of fish. They caught over 100 strippers that day. I spent the morning on the main lake concentrating on…
With my daughter covering the Occupy Oakland riots for CALTV, the issues surrounding the discontent of the “99%” have been household discussion. Today in Berkeley, there were 10 people arrested and some beaten for setting up tents on campus in protest of higher tuition. The fact is that about 70 percent of Cal students get…
Fished the morning this Monday with Jim Cramer and had a pretty successful day. We managed a few fish over 7 lbs and caught all the fish today on flies. The bite was much better in the morning. We found a school of fish feeding or cruising the surface but could not get a grab…
I spent Saturday tuning up my outboard that was misfiring last weekend. I burned up a can of SeaFoam decarbonizer and also used some to clean the carbs. When I removed the plugs, they didn’t look all that bad but I changed them with new properly gapped ones. I changed the oil and filter. Also,…
Today, The Cal Bears football team got their asses handed to them by underdog UCLA. Stanford Football beat USC in triple overtime and a surfer in Monterey got wounded by a great white shark (I worry about Mark surfing). Wes and I fished the Delta today and managed 14 fish to the boat including 3…
Tom Tan, my uncle told me on the way up to the lake that he hadn’t fished it in 20 years and remembers catching tiny stripers on anchovies off the bank. I told him today, we are not doing that. We had a great day together–my uncle is a retired postal carrier and…
Not a stellar day but good nonetheless with 16 fish total all caught from 6AM to 9AM. The one keeper was about 20 inches caught in the trench on a white fly. I released several other keepers thinking I would catch plenty, but every thing turned off at 9AM leaving me one short. Caught…
Mia Syn–reporter for CALTV– covers the Occupy Berkeley Protest. What is with this hatred of wealthy people? I was informed that the 1% is defined as those with an adjusted gross income of $343,927 or more. That is about 1.4 million people (of which doesn’t include me and I don’t hate them). Doesn’t that 1%…
Because Gina wanted a fish to eat for dinner, I fished the forebay this morning from 7:00am till noon and put 37 fish in the boat. It was awesome and it seemed, for awhile, a fish or a take on every cast. I went out alone and launched at sunrise. The first thing i…
I never imagined Mia pursuing broadcast journalism as a profession. Not that she has changed her major though. I thought the Ann Curies of the world were born into it or something. I see my daughters skills getting better and I can imagine her working for a news station. It will be interesting to see…
At least the seats were nice at the CAL homecoming game against USC at AT&T park. We got 4 tickets on the bottom row of the 50 yard line– Hows that for sweet. Unfortunately, even though there were lots of CAL parents representing, there was way too much USC red and gold around us–and I…