Entries for 'Barry Hughes'

As you might have read in a previous story, Debbie, the love of my life, bought me a brand new Tracker PT 175 Bass boat as a surprise for our 7th anniversary.  Several years later we were caught in some severe weather at Elephant Butte Lake in Southern New Mexico, and the boat developed a leak in the hull.  We were forced to plow into the 4’ white caps coming straight at us for nearly an hour.  When the dealer where Debbie bought the Tracker attempted to repair the damage ...

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In a previous blog, I recounted the story of my amazing bare handed capture of a trout in the Jemez River.  That wasn't the only time I caught a trout that way! My second experience catching “no tackle” trout occurred while my son Mark and I were fishing the famous San Juan River that flows out of Navajo Lake near the “Four Corners” area.  The “Four Corners” area is famous because it is the only place in the United States where 4 states come toget...

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Jalapeno Fajitas?  Prepare to Evacuate! The love of my life and I were camping at Conchas Lake New Mexico with our friends Randy & Leslie in our 5th wheel RVs.  On this particular night we decided not to cook, which is rare, because all four of us are excellent cooks, and we love to perform our skills in the kitchen or galley. We mentioned to our friends that the Ramada Inn in Tucumcari made outstanding Fajitas, and we convinced them to go with us and make the short drive into to...

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Graphite fishing rods can be excellent conductors of electricity, which is not good news for those who fish with them. Every so often you hear about someone trout fishing with a fly rod and being electrocuted by a lightning strike.  In fact it has happened several times on the San Juan River just below Navajo Dam . Once I was fishing with Dave “Bob” Granger from Farmington, New Mexico.  Bob and I were both bass fishing with fly rods and we were catching a ton of Smallmout...

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Fishermen have devised many methods to catch one of the world’s most popular game fish, the elusive trout.  But none that I know of have even attempted to master the “no tackle” techniques that I have developed.  That’s right; rods, reels, lines and lures are not necessary when you have mastered the skills of catching trout with “no tackle”. I caught my first “no tackle” trout while my wife and I were acting as tour guides for two young ...

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In my 65 years of fishing, I’ve heard a lot of stories about fishing records.  Most of them are based on the species of fish that were caught and the weight or test of the line used to catch them.  Of course there are also records of total weight of bass caught during a fishing tournament that have nothing to do with line weight. My wife Debbie, who is also my favorite fishing buddy, holds what I consider two of the most amazing fishing records. We were fishing in Eastern New M...

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After fighting this big fish on 8 lb. test line for almost 2 minutes in my Tracker Pro Team 185 Bass Boat, James strained to lift up on the handle of the net, but when it cleared the water we saw 2 monsters in the net! I know a lot of guys that hate to fish in off color, stained, murky or coffee water as I call it.  I call it coffee water because I drink my coffee with just enough creamer to make it the color of the water we were fishing that day.  They are all used to fishing those c...

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The Bradford pear & red bud trees are blooming in Northeast Oklahoma, so the hybrid/wipers are biting like crazy!  Hybrid or wipers as they are sometime called are a cross between a striped bass and a sand or white bass.  Did I mention that they fight like bulldogs? Scott Yeager owns the lure company “Striped Bass Tackle 4 You” (web site: sbt4u.com) and lucky for us both, last year he and his family moved two doors down the street from us.  Scott is a quite an acc...

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