Sometimes I think that I’m jinxed. Statistically, one would think that if you catch enough fish , that a couple of them should be big. That elusive 10 lb mark in San Luis. seemed to elude me this year–its been 5 months for Pete’s sake. I can still hear the advice of the old pros, “You…
With the Striper fishing going strong off the Trash Racks, the last 4 trips have been pretty crowded with at least 4 or 5 other boats jockying around the racks with the Damn Dam Police megaphoning us to get back from the wall at least 500 feet. I take my Calaway Range Finder out…
The Boys of Summer are back. Dan Blanton, Tom Malec, and Steve Santucci were all out on the lake this past week and slammin’ them. Mr Santuccci’s clients landed two 17 lbrs on the lake on Wednesday on large Brown and Blue Clousers. Impressive! I bet those big ones are on the other side of…
Fishingdate – Saturday April 27, 2013 It may not have been number one on Rick’s bucket list but i had a feeling it was near the top. Ive been fishing with Rick for about two years. He is 75 years old and a retired IBM engineer who knew my dad. One of many things I…
I went back for more this weekend just in case it was the day that my luck would change. Unfortunately it was a carbon copy of Saturday. Wes wrote today that they are letting water out of the dam and perhaps the striper fishing may pick up in the next couple days on the Feather. Why…
It been a long time since I felt the pull of a big striper. Today, I pulled on a bunch of dinks and its just not enough. Any day now, the Lake and Forebay should start getting better. Last year at this time the lake was 20 feet higher and there was timber in…
In searching for the lightest 7-8 wgt reels with the beefiest drags and sturdiest frames, there are two standout reels to look at–the Vanquish 7.8 LT and the Nautilus NV 8/9 G7. Nautalis NV 8/9 G7- The G7 spool was designed to fit a large arbor 7wgt reel and fits nicely into the light NV…
After being defeated by baitfishermen on Saturday, I though maybe I would take a friend out fishing today and try some baitfishing. We stopped by Coyote Bait and Tackle, picked up some anchovies, sardines, bloodworms, and a dozen medium size minnows. They were out of jumbos. We launched at the Forebay around 9:00. It…
Its like the Shark’s loosing streak. I just cant win one. The last 4 weeks of fly fishing the forebay has been so slow for me that I cant remember what a big striper feels like. Yikes Again today, great weather, 8 hours of good casts and nothing to show but the smallest striper I have ever…
Wow, my first fly fishing orthopedic injury. I felt it happen strip setting on a snag three weeks ago. After that incident, I fished three days on the lake and I could tell that fast stripping and double hauling was getting painful I put on a strap above my left elbow to help relieve the pain…
Its been a really long time since I had two zero fish days in a row at The O’Neilll Forebay. What started out as a day of promise ended up with only one hookup and it wasn’t a striper. While casting to the dam at Oneill, I got a really light hit on the…
I want to catch a big striped bass.by: kovacsxtranormal For the first time in years, I scored a Zero at the lake. I took my buddy Rick out and we put in a whole day looking around the Big Lake for eating fish. We saw plenty and even baitfished over a school of them for…
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…
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…
The Class of 09 performed their final skit at Leland today which I had the opportunity to film. Using an HD1000 with fish eye and an HD800 for closer shots I edited the short film in Adobe CS4’s two camera mode in half an hour. Leland High School Senior Homecoming Skit 2008 from Meng Syn…
Finally found a solution to the ability to playback Sanyo Xacti HD1000 1080i camera captures back on a PC. Its called the CoreAVC Codec. Next step is to test Premier CS4 with native Xacti HD h.264. The CoreAVC High Definition H.264 video codec is widely known as the world’s fastest and most efficient H.264 video…