Working nights and fishing days. On most weekdays, the hours before work are spent running errands and going down the "To Do" list checking off tasks one by one. (For those who work a normal 9-5 shift, the process is reversed.) Working nights can definitely be a drag, but it's the unusual schedule that allows for some pretty incredible adventures and surprising simple … [Read more...]
Invitation to the Ball
(Historic Ball Ranch this Saturday November 7th!) Once in a while we open the mail, well email, and find something both exciting and so rare you must take action. A few months back I decided to take a short break from writing to focus on family and myself for a bit. In my head it was for two weeks tops. Three months later here we are back at the keyboard together. Since my break turned … [Read more...]
The Upper San Joaquin – a fly fishing tale
"If people concentrated on the really important things of life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." ~ Doug Larson A few articles back I wrote about fly fishing, today I write about my first day on the San Joaquin for the opening weekend of trout fishing. After that article went to press a patient of ours came in and we started talking about the post and the fishing up … [Read more...]
Why summer camps are important
It came to me recently that my outdoors life all started for me back in summer between the 5th and 6th grade while spending a couple of weeks up at Sequoia Lake for YMCA camp. The year before my Grandpa Buck had passed away and with him went nearly every chance I held for becoming an outdoorsman. Learning to read a map, fishing, living outdoors, learning to hunt to feed my family all were lost … [Read more...]
Fishing with style
"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot" ~Steven Wright~ FresYes is a fishing gateway to the Sierra and we are lucky enough to have right here at our fingertips the information to learn to cast a fly rod and break out of the norm of just sitting on the bank like Huck Finn with a cane pole. The Fresno Fly Fishers for Conservation is a … [Read more...]
The San Joaquin River – Looking back to see the future
I'd like to invite you the FresYes reader to come with me on a year-long journey to explore the most precious of our outdoors locations the one and only, my personal favorite place in all of Fresno, the San Joaquin River. So great is my love for The River that it was a crime to try to do a single post about our river. During 2015 expect a post every other month or so about the river itself, the … [Read more...]