No wonder Ed didn't talk. He's a fisherman.
Found this at a fly fishing website:
Joining up with the Carlson's, Lou Metzler from the Longview club and his wife, we would be staying with Dick and Barbara Maugg in a rented house while Dick is completing the construction of his final Baja hideaway.
Dick, best known as the laconic "ED" in the Bartle and Jaymes (Gallo) wine cooler commercials, an avid fly fisher and member of the Steamboaters, is a friend of Dave Carlson's, and I had already met and fished with Dick for steelhead on the Deschutes.
Frank and I toasted each other for a successful 9 1/2 hour flight while waiting to be picked up and stripping down in the heat. Eventually Dick appeared in an old orange pickup. He suggested we go down to the beach in front of the hotel and see what the charter boats were bringing in....
Dick spoke spanish with several of the mexican charter skippers and gave us his fishing report. "They had 90 degree water temperatures last week with really drove the big schools of dorado out. It has cooled some since then and there are dorado around but they are scattered. Fishing hasn't been very good. The weather has really been screwy here as well as up along the U.S. coast. El Nino and all that."...
For seven days I fought bad weather, slow fishing, bad luck and bad timing, anything and everything that can conspire to keep one fishless. I was getting frustrated. I wanted a decent sized dorado on my Shakespeare reel. The last day I was in Dick's boat. Dick, having done this for 15 years, had an interesting attitude about dorado fishing. Kind of a mexican attitude; they're either there or not, feeding or not, don't fight it....
Comments