An ASVAB score pointing to Army MOS Field 92 foretold of our penchant for long-range planning. That same long-range planning fuels fly tying and anticipation of the coming trout fishing season. What’s slowly becoming an annual effort of logistics planning and matériel acquisition is underway. We’re warming up. Figuratively and literally. Spring’s officially around the corner. [...]
Posts under ‘Sierra Nevada’
nice sights to see, but…
This’ll put a dent, however small, in our drought…
let my hatchery trout go
The hard times faces by many rural California communities might just get harder if the Pacific Rivers Council and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) deem Homo sapiens, like trout, to be an introduced species in high Sierra watersheds. Four years after filing a lawsuit centered on the idea that stocked hatchery trout and salmon have [...]
closed for fishing
To think that I was fishing on this lake in late September, and even fishing rivers in the area four weeks ago.
last hurrah ’09
We’re back. The second annual End of Trout Season Trip is history. And we caught more browns, brookies and rainbows than could rightfully be expected. It all started late and slow as less adept drivers transformed former automobiles into too many ready-to-be-recycled bits strewn along Hwy 680. We picked up speed through Livermore, grabbed a [...]


