No sweat, but bummer it wasn't more action.  I know that wind and cold turned off a lot of the bite, but at least you found them.  Something that would have been much easier to do in a boat or a second day on the tube.  lol

Happy birthday boss!  I remember being down in PB/MB on my 29th birthday myself...

The boat is supposedly fixed, although I will have to just add a bead of silicone and it should all be done.  I'll keep you posted.

WTF is wrong with people these days???

That's a nice haul from the Garden

Out-fished by a guy that oversleeps You redeemed yourself   

Happy Birthday, looks like a nice gift of fun fishing. My Birthday was the 23rd, all the cool guys were born in June

Nice Bass Session, those are nice ones

 Janie had a week off so we left on June 19th and headed to The Sierras. On our way we made a point to stop and see the places we always say we need to check out, first stop was Kramer Junction, what a cool place this little Museum was






Next stop was actually on The 14 FRWY just a bit out of the way but worth a look, Indian Wells Brewery. They made Beer and Soda.






Since we were not really in a hurry, we gassed up in Bishop, hit the grocery store and decided to try the Canal behind Vons, the cows were in our way   Never seen them over here before
 


It was pretty warm still so we just headed up the hill and met my Buddy up at Tuff Campground and caught a few fish there before heading to The House



We got to the house and Tim and his wife went back to Simi Valley, they gave us the place for a week



In the morning I made Breakfast Burritos for Scooby Snacks to take on our daily adventures




We drove about an hour up to Bridgeport and checked out The Walker River, Bridgeport Reservoir and Robinson Creek. Found Fish in the creek Stopped by Ken's Sporting Goods too, it's a must !







I did BBQ a Tri Tip for Dinner one night, it was good



The next couple of days was just sight seeing, hiking and taking in the scenery. We went to most of the Lakes in Mammoth and then up to The June Lake Loop. Saw some cool streams and Waterfalls along the way in between the Lakes.








The scenery never gets old, there is water everywhere !







We went back to The June Lake loop and tried to hit some cool shops, ran into this guy that used to work with Janie's Uncle on the Sport Boats in Dana Point Harbor, small world and he was full of Knowledge 



We tried to stop at all the Lodges and General Stores to check them out, I started to collect pins from each place.






On the last day we went back to Robinson Creek, as we were walking out , The Stock Truck showed up with 900 Lbs of fresh Trout Time to leave, they ain't going to bite today



Back to Bishop to get some Jerky and Dinner at the Casino 103 AT 5:30PM down in Bishop Mid 70's up in the hills 








Always have to stop at Tom's Place





Time to head back to Valley Center   and on the way, Janie has to stop and look 




I grabbed a few things


Time to unload The Hearse


Hope to get some Salt Action soon

Abundance in a post! Everything looks delicious!

Looks like a beautiful day. Good quality!

31st Birthday is today so I booked a night with my lady at the Catamaran Hotel on the northwest shore of Mission Bay. One night in a hotel makes for some awkward time slots to fish, as I learned, but I wanted to see the bay from a different angle with Alicia instead of duck in and back out around the east side like I normally do.

Got into town around 1230. We wanted to try this Italian street food place that's on the strand so we went straight there. Its associated parking lot is very large, but not large enough for the Sunday beach crowd. After 20 minutes of figure 8s through the parking lot, I was ready to drive into the ocean, so we bailed and checked in early at the hotel up the street, if just to get parking.

Leaving home a little later, having to bail on the original food plan, and going through the process of checking in early, ate up a lot of the time I wanted to fish in the early afternoon. I originally wanted to tube, but the wind was obviously not going to comply during the time window. We got lunch at the Flamingo-somethingruther brunch place across the street and still enjoyed an all-too-large italian sandwich.

Alicia wanted to try casting a line for maybe the second time, so I obliged and brought a couple pieces of squid. I showed her the basics and she made a little progress. We hadn't gotten any bites before we were notified that our room was ready 15 minutes into fishing, so we had to scoot from there.

Amazing view of the bay! Thought I would have to pay some kind of premium for the ocean view so it was a nice surprise.



I wanted an early-ish dinner to try for corvina after sunset with ample time, so we went down to the hotel restaurant at 1800. Let them know it was my birthday and we were seated to a 1/3 capacity restaurant. 20 minutes later we still hadn't seen a waiter so much as ask us for a drink order. I went over to the hostess to let them know and they went into the kitchen and straightened things out. We got a bit of a deal on our food, which was nice of them, but I ended up losing about an hour of fishing time to the whole ordeal.

Ended up throwing an LCFM 110 along the shoreline looking for corvina or whatever was hungry from about 2030 to 2200. Not a sniff! But, I did see SeaWorld's drone display across the bay which was very cool. I wish I could be down there for the whole 4th of July display.


Woke up at 0430. Maybe 4 hours of mediocre sleep but I was locked in on the mission.



I hurried over to launch at Ski Beach Park to fish Fiesta Bay. On the water at 0500. Kinda cold, east wind blowing, which I fought to get out. A few bumps early on until I finally connected with the quintessential California Rolling Turder.



Shortly after, I finally got something other than a pee pee poo poo bass to eat an underspin.



Lot of short bites until I found a hole that started getting me more committal fish.



~20" halibut came to play.



I was up to 5 with a couple farmed fish. The other day I told myself 6 would be a nice number for this session. The spot was still biting but I kept farming one after another, despite the wide gap hook, tight lines, and fast reeling.

I lost at least 4 more fish. By 0900 the wind had come up quite a bit from the west now, it became apparent that I was going to have to now fight pretty hard all the way back to my launch spot. Very poor planning on my part to not launch from the east and let the wind do all the work all morning.

I trolled an underspin at .5mph as I hammered through chop for an hour, getting soaked, and farmed another on the way in, right next to the boat for good measure.

I had a good time despite a few challenges! Glad the fish cooperated at least a little bit and I was able to fish a decent amount of new water and shoreline. Looking forward to getting back down there again. And thanks Tom for steering me in the right direction!