San Luis Reservoir can be an intimidating lake to fish.  It’s full of peaks and valleys, deep channels and fluctuating water levels.  The pattern changes daily and even hourly.  Sometimes you only have a small window of opportunity before they stop biting. So what do you do if you haven’t fished the lake over an extended period of time? Well, yesterdays trip I did just that.  It’s been several weeks since I last fished San Luis Reservoir.  With the recent death of my mother in law, broken steering cable on my boat and…Read more …

With my boat still out of commission, I wasn’t planning on fishing O’Neill Forebay last Sunday.  I was going to fix my leaking seal on the boat but I got a last minute call from my good buddy Xiong asking if I wanted to hit the lake with him.  I haven’t been on the water for the longest time now so it was a YES.  We took our boys too and we were on our way. I normally like to hit the water before sunrise.  It was late already.  The sun was blazing…Read more …

There’s something about fishing that brings us closer together from FAmily, friends and strangers who we’ve yet to call friends.  Here’s what I mean. So, on our FishAholics fishing charter trip, we booked a rock/ling cod trip with the Golden Eye 2000 out of Berekly Marina.  A great boat, crew and captain by the way. We headed out to the fishing grounds north of San Francisco to fish the reefs in the area.  On the way there, some FishAholics members already showed signs of insomnia.  The waves were rougher than normal but it…Read more …