Did some prospecting on a new California coastal Steelhead river and timed it perfectly. Talk about HOT Winter Steelhead! Check it out…
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Big Delta Bucket-Mouth
Finally got out to the Delta today for the first time this season. Conditions were good and we found plenty of Stripers up to around 6 pounds. The highlight, however, was a Huge Black Bass. Check it out…
Stripers in The California Surf – 2010
I didn’t get out to the surf for stripers this year as much as I’d liked to, but I did manage to get into a few. Check out the pictures…
Fun San Luis Striper Morning
Hit San Luis Reservoir with Jeff for a warm day in the sun chasing stripers. We didn’t get into anything big, but had a blast with the little guys. Check out the pictures…
OP Winter Steelhead with Jeff
After days of battling crappy conditions and bad weather with Dave & Brandon, Jeff showed-up just in time to cash-in on the paid dues. It was his first winter steelhead trip – and he couldn’t have timed it better…
OP Winter Steelhead with Brandon
Dropped Dave off at SeaTac and headed back out to the Olympic Peninsula with Brandon. More crappy weather and more bright steelhead. And it only gets better…
OP Winter Steelhead with Dave
Dave & I hit the road for the Olympic Peninsula and its BIG winter steelhead. It was his first time going up there with me and it’s a trip I don’t think he’ll be forgetting soon. Did we catch fish? Find out….
NorCal Fall Steelhead
Man I love this time of year in Northern California. With Stripers in the Delta and Fall-run Steelhead in the rivers, it could make for a tough decision – for some. But when the conditions are right, I’ll make the longer steelhead drive every time. So Jeff & I packed up the pontoon boats and headed North…
Halfpounder Steelhead with Brandon
After a family reunion in Medford, Brandon & I headed across the border for a quick trip to check-in on my favorite Northern California Fall Steelhead river. Check out the short video of a hot halfpounder putting the heat on Brandon’s Bougle…
Dave’s First CA Surf Striper
Dave & I headed over to the beach for an early morning striper hunt a few weeks ago to strike while the iron was hopefully still hot – and it was!
Baja 2009
“The Year of the Grandes” – PLURAL! The trip began as usual – mostly… We got into plenty of the typical “fun” fish off the beach, (Ladyfish small Jacks, etc)… We found some junior Roosterfish, and we had daily shots at some monsters. The highlights, however… were that Dad finally got his true Monster Roosterfish, [...]
My Grande Roosterfish
If Winter-Steelhead are the fish of a thousand casts… …then Roosterfish from-the-beach are the fish of a thousand refusals. But every once in a while, when you least expect it, one surprises you. This afternoon was beginning to look like one of those days where the roosters never show. We’d been spread out over a [...]
Dad’s Grande Roosterfish
We’d had some awesome shots at big Roosters during the premium lighting of the day but the good light was beginning to fade. Dad radio’d-in that he’d found a good ladyfish bite so Brandon & I headed his way. When we got there we scaled our flies down from the big 15 inch chickens we [...]
Crushing the 20 Pound Striper Barrier
Had an epic morning fishing the surf today. The tide was right, the structure was perfect, the Stripers were in – and I finally nailed a 20+ pound striper.
Check it out…
California Surf Stripers – Persistance
Persistance pays off… I was out on the beach a few mornings ago looking for surf perch with Jeff, and we got skunked – again. I don’t know what’s happened, surf perch were never a difficult fish for me to find in years past, but recently it’s been a completely different story. On our way [...]
Shad Run 2009 – Trip 2
Another weekend, another fly fishing trip up to the Sacramento River shad grounds – this time with Dave. We pretty much had the place to ourselves which was awesome, the weather stayed down in the high 80’s (an added little bonus, especially compared to last year’s triple-digit-temperature shad trip we did together) and the fishing [...]
Shad Run 2009 – Trip 1
It had been about a month since I last wet a line and even longer than that since I’d busted out a spey rod and the itch was in need of a serious scratching. The time was finally here, it was the middle of May, the shad were in the rivers, and the weather couldn’t [...]
New Urban Carpery – with Jeff
While out pedaling around on the mountain bike Saturday, taking advantage of the unseasonably hot weather that hit the Bay Area this weekend (mid to high 90′s), I stumbled on another little urban carp spot. I’d ridden past it before and not seen anything but when I passed it this time I caught a glimpse [...]
Shortest Surf Perch Morning Yet
Jose Silva was in town for a very short visit. He wasn’t intending on fishing on this trip and therefore hadn’t brought any gear but Dave, Jeff, and I wouldn’t have any of it. The weather and surf conditions weren’t expected to be very good but we didn’t have the luxury of rescheduling due to [...]
Sludge Pond Carp with Dad
Just back from steelhead fishing up north, I had 1 day to check in on the sludge ponds to see if there were any carp stirring around before my dad came into town for the weekend for another business trip. His last business trip out here a year ago paid off big-time with plenty of [...]
