Baseball Consuming my Fishing Time!

Every angler has a vice beyond their fishing and mine is baseball.  I grew up as a second baseman and a Red Sox fan during the Carl Yastrzemski era but when I went to college in Wisconsin in 1983, Ryne Sanberg’s rookie year, I got hooked on the Chicago Cubs.  I never...

Spring Tide Challenges and a New Species

I leapt from bed early this morning here in Encinitas, California.  Granny and I were eager to get to the Torrey Pines State Beach.  She wanted to do a run while I was aiming to once and for all catch my elusive corbina on the fly.  When we got there at 10 AM the tide...

Clever California Corbina

Time flies when you’re having fun.  Granny and I have been in Southern California for nearly a week and I’ve given presentations to Santa Barbara Flyfishers, Fly Fishing Club of Orange County and the Pasadena Casting Club.  I’ll continue my speaking tour next week but...

California Combination of Work and Pleasure

Granny I arrived in California last night by car to begin a ten-day speaking tour.  It was a great 15-hour drive listening to playoff baseball on my XM all the way from home.  Cubs pitcher, Jake Arrieta, hit his amazing three run homer just as the sun was setting for...