As most of you know the CA aqueduct has become my albatross. I have fished it several times, hooked into 2 stripers but didn’t land them so I had a big fat Zero at the duct, until this past Saturday. By the way, for those who don’t know, the CA Aqueduct is a 715 mile long cement river that serves … [Read more...]
CA Aqueduct, swing and a miss!
Well folks, 6 weeks after having my right knee replaced and intense physical therapy I finally felt good enough to get out and wet a line. Seeing how my new knee still not steady enough to stand on the deck of the Champion and I don’t know anyone with a pontoon style boat I knew I would be shore … [Read more...]
Lake Castaic Striper Fishing
Recently I took my nephew, a friend and his young son to Castaic Lake to see if we could catch a mess of striped bass. Now before I proceed let me explain that while I had fished Castaic quite a few times for largemouth bass I never targeted stripers and neither had my friend. Armed with sardines … [Read more...]
Owens Valley Bass Fishing
Since the new knee was not quite stable enough to take the Champion out, recently I decided to head up north to the Owens Valley to do some bass fishing at some of the ponds and slews off of the Owens River. One nice thing to fishing this area is you can pull up right next to the water, or at least … [Read more...]
Cabin Fever Be Gone, Maiden Voyage for my new knee.
After several weeks of intense physical therapy and a major case of cabin fever I finally got the blessing from my doctor as well as my physical therapist to go out and do some fishing. However, my doctor says that he does not think I would be steady enough to take the Champion out yet. You see, … [Read more...]
Crappie Fishing
I don’t know about your neck of the woods but out here in California the crappie are getting ready to move up into the shallows, if they have not already to perform the yearly spawning ritual. While at the lower elevation lakes they might have already be staging at my home lake they have not yet … [Read more...]
California Aqueduct Fishing
On line I had reading a lot of reports of some very nice Striped bass coming out of the California Aqueduct in the Antelope Valley area so I did some searching on Google Earth thanks to suggestions from a couple people I had met online. After seeing some likely looking spots I decided to take a … [Read more...]
What a Great Fishing Trip!
I took the nephew for a day of fishing recently over to my home lake, Isabella and we had a blast! We pulled out of town at 0445 and headed over to the lake. As we were driving along shortly after cresting Walker pass, we rounded a turn and there in the middle of the road was a deer, luckily we … [Read more...]
Fred Halls Fishing Tackle, Boat and Travel Show.
Southern California outdoors people know this is "The Event" to attend because it brings out the child in everyone that attends. I know that I'm like a kid in a candy store, or maybe I should say a huge toy store. The World's finest fishing tackle manufacturers show up with their latest and … [Read more...]
Sponsorships, are they worth it?
First off I want to take a minute to give a big thank you to my sponsors for all of their help. Bob at Magna Charger, George at Belltech, Bill at Baer, Tony at Volant, Steve at Trucksecuirty.com, TJ and Ron at TTI Companies the makers of X-Point and Daiichi hooks, Rick at Maxima line and of course … [Read more...]
