“Here’s tae us! There’s gey few like us–and they’re a’ damned or deid!” Hogmanay toast, trad. attr. Gordon Highlanders Few people stay connected to you for your whole life from childhood that are not your relatives. Because we shared the same passion for FLY FISHING in the 70’s, Len took a chance on a young…
Recently my search for a two man fishing boat that “the boss” sais has to fit in the garage or no go, came to an end with the purchase of a used Crestliner Angler 14. The boat was is good condition by for a gadget guy like me, not good enough. The reconstruction and restoration…
Flyfishing with my kids. neices and nephews is on the top ten list of greatest things to doand our trip to the Wilderness Unlimited Bidwell Ponds was perfect. Conditions were great for the first ever Wayne and Meng Syn family fishout. Three words to describe the trip “Party Boat Action” as wayne and I unhooked…
I have died and gone to trout heaven! The Best Dry Fly Fishing I have ever seen. My accomplices, Wayne, Jim Cramer, Mark Won, Papa Jon and Little Jon stayed at the Mountain View Country Inn, an awesome place to rest and eat with accommodations for 10 and free wi-fi not 20 minutes from the…
Uncle Yun proves once again that its better to be lucky than skillfull. Last weekend, my cousing Dr Keneth Tan and I tried our flyfishing skills out on the trout of Smith Creek Ranch. Our Group stayed in the lodge near the lake and consisted of Wayne Syn, Yun Syn, Keneth Tan and myself. Our…
The Sharks Opener against the Ducks…4-1 Sharks! Maybe this is the year with a coach that has actually won a Stanley Cup! Actually this post is an experiment, using the WordPress Iphone Application to upload a picture directly to the blog.
Its been nearly ten years since we revisited the old neighborhood in Downtown Chicago. A kidless week revisiting those places that were so familair to us was refreshing and rejuvinating. I forgot how many people actually show up for Taste of Chicago until they closed the streets around Grant Park to let the partiers exit…
Damn, It seems that I managed to book the “best dry fly fishing in the world” at the worst time ever. River X was a big ZERO. The river was blown out by water release in the reservoir and we spent the week at the Rocky Ridge Bed and Breakfast fishing the local pond–Dipping Dot Reservoir (actual…
Summer is over and I wish I fished more this year. In retrospect, one of the best days I had was not catching one fish–the day I spent at the Palmer Ranch in Alberta fishing for large cruising fish in shallow ponds. The epiphany of the day was , “I think I need a small compact expandable net…
It seems so familair. I have never returned to Christmas Island in Kirabati on two consecutive years. Last year we were told, “You dont want to come to Christmas Island right after the full moon because the fishing is too easy and the fish are too big.” Personally, I like easy and big and so…
Whats better than taking your son out of school to go fishing in Mexico for a week? Nuthin’. This mid school year expedition took place near Mazatlan at a lake called El Salto, home of the next world record largemouth bass. This trip was special in that my cousin Wayne and my Uncle Yun were…
On July 31st 2006, my father passed away from complications during heart surgery to repair a regurgitating mitral valve at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. He was 79 years old and had been suffering from congestive heart failure for months prior to the surgery. He is missed and we think of him often. In Memory…