Your dinner is still in the woods.
It is a wild thing, deep sea fishing. You sit on the edge of the abyss, the edge of your world, and reach out into another world entirely. Sometimes you get nothing. Other times an unknown force in the darkness takes hold of your probe and gives you a run. You struggle with this invisible […]
I’ve been cooking a lot of duck around here lately. I was lucky enough to come back from my December hunting trip to California with enough ducks to really max out the available space in the freezer. I had never cooked duck before this, but I picked it up quickly and we have been eating […]
For Christmas, my mother gave my brother Nathan and I a day of fishing for striper and sturgeon in San Pablo Bay with Argo Sportfishing. On boxing day, we drove into the city with the sunrise to hop aboard the Argo in what has to be about the best slip in the country. The 33-foot […]
On our third day of duck hunting, we headed out into Suisun bay looking for diver ducks, again guided by the folks from Northwind Outfitters. We arrived at the marina well before first light and climbed into their boat, the Sundance. Full dark all around, we road out into the bay, the heavy salt air […]