With sturgeon biting in the bays, stripers still chomping in the Delta and hot trout action at places like New Melones and Berryessa, Folsom Lake is being largely overlooked these days. On one hand, the fishing at Folsom isn’t red … Continued
Our plugs bristled with big keenly sharp treble hooks, so it seemed counter intuitive to think that you had to “let the fish eat” in order to get a decent hookset, but that’s exactly what you had to do. Doing … Continued
I’m not going to lie, we are going into the part of the season where fishing opportunities slim down and as a result so do the potential range of fishing articles you can write. This isn’t to say that good … Continued
The first time, I was talking to Gena. I was half paying attention to her, half paying attention to my rig…LOL! When the strike came, I set, but a beat late. I felt the hook grab for an instant and … Continued
From my perch near the cabin I saw it all. Rod No. 6, John Adams’s rod, wiggled a little, stopped moving and then wiggled a bit more. A beat later the tip pulled down hard and stayed down pumping and … Continued
A lot of striper anglers that troll lures and cast plugs exclusively look on bait fishing as the down and dirty tactic of the rank beginner that takes little in terms of finesse or technique. Truth be told, the consistently … Continued
I can’t believe how high the water level is at many of our lakes and reservoir. For example, Lake Shasta is only down about 40 feet at this point and this is a lake that is generally down 100 … Continued
“…below this point the waves became So high we were Compelled to land unload and traw up the Canoes, here we formed a Camp on the neck of Land which joins Point William to the main at an old indian … Continued
Indian massacres, settlers butchered, grizzly attacks and bloodthirsty highwaymen… Growing up I’d heard the stories from the old timers that were born around the turn of the last century. In many cases, anecdotal history was passed down to the old … Continued
It had taken more than two hours to motor from Berkeley to the Farallon Islands. I snoozed for much of the ride, so I was feeling alert and ready for action when I stepped to the port corner and … Continued