The SF Bay Goldens have been ON over the last few weeks! May is really appearing to be the hot month for these sludge-pond, bottom-sucking hoovers. From the generic trout flies to the more unique, specialty fly-of-the-hour patterns, they’ve kept us entertained, intrigued, perplexed, and flat-out frustrated over the last two weeks… …It’s been GREAT!

I headed back down to the sludge ponds Saturday afternoon. The day was beautiful and sunny, but the wind was howling… …I didn’t expect to find any fish and almost left the rod at home. I say almost – but I’d made that mistake enough times in the past. I’m glad I didn’t make it [...]