I get a little bit nervous when too many things go my way. I got pretty lucky today at the lake and landed a second fish over 2o lbs in two weeks. The euphoria over last weeks fish had me on the fly tying bench last week tying up all sorts of giant flies flies.…
It was easier to fish together when we were kids. Wayne and I finally got a day together on the delta with renown guide Steve Santucci. I think we were due for some luck and the weather gods blessed the day with perfect weather and good fishing. We started our day driving to the…
Its been a long time since I fished the forebay. The last 3 weeks have been spent recovering from eye surgery and I still have some blurry vision. Also, the winds have been brutal this June. The last weekends were un fishable by boat on the weekends due to high winds. In…
This weekend I had the chance to fly fish for Shad on the Sacramento River with Orland Outfitters and Sea Level Flyfishing. Ray Hutcherson’s group had a couple last minute cancelations so I jumped at the opportunity to fill in. The last time I fished for Shad on the Sac was with Len Bearden many…
Long Screws Screwed me The Vision 2 that I was preparing to sell lost 4 motors to my negligence when I accidently put some long screws into the short holes while placing prop guards on the bird before selling it to a friend. Its very easy to mess a motor up just by pushing on…
It was a wise decision to take the moms out for dinner the Saturday night before Mothers Day. We had a nice dinner with the whole family at Kyoto Palace–the local “Benihana ” style restaurant where the chefs cook at the table and show off there knife and skillet skills. My mom loves that place…
The first time I ever heard of Henderson Springs Lodge was from my old friend Dr. Ben Kliger RIP over 25 years ago. He spoke about a great place to visit that had a bunch of different fly fishing opportunities–a combination of lakes, ponds and streams with a great comfortable lodge. Recently, Jim Cramer…
The tide peaks at 7:00am. Hope the wind dies down. The Gods of fishing were kind to me on my first official day on the Delta on my own. As has been mentioned by many “experienced” Delta flyfishermen, the Delta is truly a river that runs in both directions. Current is the key. My neighbor…
—=== Due to the large amount of Media Collected on this trip, this post remains a work in progress and will me modified for about a month as I get the stills and videos edited ==– The Photography Click to see the Flikr Photosets This last week marked my fifth trip to Christmas…
If I had seen a comparison of these two lenses a couple years ago, I would have laughed. It is indeed comparing apples to oranges but now that I am into the form factor, video wonderfulness, and practicality of Micro 4/3rds, its time to take a close look at the Lumix 7-14mm f4. The…
The first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this was “why in the world do we need to spend 10 million dollars to fluoridate water in Santa Clara Valley?”. As published in Yahoo finance. 1. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif. > Median household income: $90,737 > Population: 1,894,388 (32nd highest) > Unemployment rate:…
Wayne Syn and I our attending the ADA annual convention in New Orleans and decided to book a few days of Flyfishing for Trophy Bull Redfish. As soon as we arrived in NOLA, we headed over to Uptown Anlgers to get the scoop. Apparently this year is one of the best years ever for Bull…
I had a few fishing options this weekend considering how slow fishing was last weekend at the Lake and Forebay, I was thinking of trying Coyote Reservoir for bass or even Callero Reservoir. Callero’s water elevation has almost doubled over the last couple weeks because SCVWD is pumping San Luis water into it. San…
Tuesday June 11, 2013, Vaughn Willett had a great day “lots of 3-5 pounders and a 10 lbr to the boat” He also mentioned that the lake level is still dropping fast and that the docks and ramps would likely be out of water by the weekend and that the forebay might be the only…
I got some bad news today. I had 100 mls of my wine analyzed and received my finished Wine Panel Results today. Everything seemed OK except for my Fructose concentrations that were off the map. Normally the glucose to fructose ratio should be from .74 to 1.05. Mine was .09 which is about ten times…
I was actually thankful that it was blowing like a hurricane at San Luis Reservoir or I wouldn’t have had the day to catch up with the winemaking. I did the second racking of the the 20 gallons of Zin today and tasted it. It coming along nicely! The wine is clear and it tastes…
Now that Mark is fully engaged at U of O through the summer, with his two jobs, and summer EMT classes, I miss fishing with him at our annual family trout fishing trip with Wayne’s family and ours. For the last couple years (5) We have tried to to stay faithful to a family fishing…
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…
High quality IPS displays are no longer extortionately expensive, particularly if you buy them directly from Korea. Currently, most of my monitors (and yours) are Twisted Nematic (TN) monitors with maximum resolutions of 1080P. They are cheap and big and adequate for High end blueray playback, and photo\video editing of 1080p content. If you are…
The BCS college football season ends with The Tide drowning The Irish in a blowout that not even Rudy could have saved. Although the game started out like an Ducks Beatdown Romp, it was nice of Mussberger to break up the monotony with a ” babe sighting” . Entertaining was his semi rapist ogling –“Wow,…