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...
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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...
I have been out a couple of times this month and got a couple of fish but nothing too exciting. I went out today and was surprised to find the bass were starting to pull down the bobber. We got...
Good stuff, Jeff. I am going to Oregon next month. I am hoping to see the varied thrush and maybe get a picture of him.
I could probably go out there and find a fish right now but opportunities are not good and it hardly seems worth doing. I expect I will get motivated soon but in the meantime the bird photography...
Those are pretty good stories. In my mind I can see the car seat and the bent car antennae with the fishing rod on it.
My mom is always telling me stories and of course I have heard them all many...
I heard a guy on the radio talking about mud suckers. Apparently you only need one. They never come off and they work even when they are dead so one will catch a lot of fish. You can catch 30...
I am like a chicken in the yard scratching around in the dirt hoping to find an overlooked piece of grain or a bug. In my case it is scratching around in the delta hoping to find one more striper...
Lucky Lloyd Eiserman was a bass fisherman in Clear Lake 50+ years ago. I think he was born around 1898 and fell from a grain elevator in the midwest. He broke a bunch of bones, spent a couple of...
Sometimes you just have to go to the fish.
The striper quit I started on November 14th only lasted a couple of days. I was too weak for an extended quit and broke down at the first opportunity...
Very well said, Tony. That is a fitting way to think about the shop at the end. Thanks.
Nate - How did the float go? Your message board buddies could use a little report. Thanks.
Those are sizable spots. I have caught a bunch of spots and they seem to max out for me around 19” and 3.5 pounds so those two are a big jump over what I have been able to catch. Maybe they are fat...