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…
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, …
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…
[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…
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…
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…
When the Alarm went off at 6:00AM last Monday, I woke up to the realization that I hadn’t bought a 2012 fishing license and went back to bed. I remember forgetting to buy a license and getting a ticket while trout fishing on Putah Creek 35 years ago on January 2nd. It cost me…
After chasing the elusive “windless morning” on San Luis reservoir for the last three weeks, the perfect morning greeted us as we made the boat launch at 6:30 am Monday morning at Basalt. As we pulled up, two guys from Santa Barbara were already leaving for the day. They told us that large fish were…
Imagine a huge windless lake with no boats except yours on a fresh warm Monday morning . Few shorefisheman, an empty boat launch at 6:30 in the morning with nothing to do but fish all day. A full tank of gas in the boat, fly rods, donwriggers, bait and time. Drinks food, and a 12…