This morning the plan was to try for some striped bass in the kayak. The wind forecast was for just barely fishable conditions. I got up at 4:30 and checked a link that has live wind gauges and the...
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This morning the plan was to try for some striped bass in the kayak. The wind forecast was for just barely fishable conditions. I got up at 4:30 and checked a link that has live wind gauges and the...
My wife went out looking for the lights a couple of nights ago and did not see anything. She said there were lots of cars out waiting for a sighting. I was too tired for that and was asleep at 10.
I have found I don't get the bug to go after stripers in the spring as much as I do in the fall. In the fall the coming end of the season makes everyday feel like it could be the last which gives...
I like it. Maybe someday I will spot the Northern Lights.
Sounds exciting. Not as exciting as getting a good shot of a pileated woodpecker but pretty exciting. :)
I guess I missed you. Maybe I will see you next year, MT.
That is a pretty good line burn. I have not enjoyed a line burn like that in my lifetime.
Reservoir bass fish with the fly rod is popular. I just went to Oroville for two days and we caught a ton. It was very good.
If I knew them I would send them photos. Maybe Ryan will do that
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Ryan Williams put on a pretty nice fly fishing tournament last Saturday. It was called the Berryessa Bug Toss but I have always liked the name Bug Tussle so I decided to slip that in. I think...
I don’t think I have seen a merlin ever. I will have to look into that. I see kestrels a lot but not the merlin. I want to a really good gray squirrel picture. I saw one an hour ago and it was in...
That hawk is a very colorful bird. There are a lot around here. They perch low, below the canopy sometimes so if you see one you are not looking straight up at it like you are with most hawks. I...
The bite has slowed in the last week. The bigger bass have gotten off the shoreline and the midday sun spooks the ones that are left. Shad are starting to ball up to spawn which will attract some...
I was up there Thursday and may have seen him.
My experience is the peak was about April 1st. It has been good but slowed on Thursday for me. A few clouds and some cool weather would help. Last...
If there is a Christmas season for bass fishing it has to be the spring. Especially for the fly rodder because the bass are in close to the shore and reachable with the fly which most of the year...
That is a nice quail. They are on my list. I see and hear them but have not gotten anywhere close to getting a photo. I think mostly I see the mountain quail.
The towhee is a good looking but...
I saw this rock wren up at Lake Berryessa. He had caught a nice spider and asked me to take a picure of him posing with his catch. He told me to text it to him so he could send it to some of his...
I like green. I like it a lot. Green is good.
In this part of the world it is about as green as it gets right now. Most of the year it is not green so I like to appreciate it while it is here. ...
DL - I think the big difference is in raw the shadow details are saved and you can pull them out. The shadow details get deleted when your camera edits the photo to make the jpeg it gives you....
I have a Nikon 500 mm. It is not the best bird lens but it is pretty good and lightweight for a big lens. I use photoshop elements which is a one time $100 purchase. It has plenty of tools for me....
I did get the thrush. It took some effort. They were around but were always spooked and moving away so I was surprised to get a decent shot. That one hung around just long enough and the light was...
Planet Earth can be a pretty awesome place when it is not too beat up, trampled or crowded with dudes. It also is a little under appreciated in my opinion. If you ask most people what is great in...
Fishtopher -
Thanks for your comments. It is nice to hear from someone who is well informed. In five years I will swing up a nice fall steelhead in clear, cold water and there will be no doubt...
The Klamath at I-5 is looking like half water and half lake bottom sediment. I have not seen anything like it. It is a bad time to be a fish in the Klamath but I guess you have to get it out of...
I have my hummingbird feeder out but it is not getting much action right now. They all went south I guess. Maybe Arizona or Mexico.
A friend of mine in San Diego gets bird shots at La Jolla...
I saw the varied thrush on the coast in Oregon and Washington last year but the camera was not with me. Hopefully I can run into one this year but it is probably a long shot. I don’t know which is...