50 Years in the Sporting Goods Business – Semi-Retired
Yearly Archives: 2015
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We were over on the Gualala River around Christmas and New Years in the 1970s. It was cold and gray over there. The bar at the mouth was open and the river was running just enough water. We were fishing in Minor and Thompson pool a ways above the Highway […]
Date: June 2003 I have read about these wonderful shallow fertile trout lakes for most of my life. There are 220 lakes to fish within one hour’s drive of the little town of Kamloops , BC. According to my sources, May and June are prime months for fly fishing these […]
I sold and used the old Pflueger ‘Medalist’ fly reels for over 40 years now. Actually we don’t sell them anymore but you can get very nice old ones on eBay, fly fishing classifieds and at garage sales. At one time they were the standard fly reel for most fly fishers in the USA. My […]
Location The American River starts at the top of the west slope of the Sierras heading down through the foothills into Folsom Lake and then Lake Natomas. The 23-mile stretch of river that is called the Lower American then flows out of Nimbus Dam, heading west to the confluence with […]
I grew up in south Sacramento with Michael Bungay, who’s entire family was involved in cars, motorcycles and racing starting in the 1960s. Mike got into working on motorcycles and racing them early on and never gave it up. Today he has one of the world’s fastest vintage 350cc GP […]