GillBilly YouTube Video: Surfing Killers 1-28-2011

To him, all good things—trout as well as eternal salvation—come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.
Norman Maclean - A River Runs Through It

GillBilly YouTube Video: Baja Whale Watching

If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van Gogh

GillBilly YouTube Video: Brian Jay Cline's New GillBilly Song!

We continue to develop the GillBilly Movie and Brian Jay Cline has produced a new song for us entitled Seaside Town...enjoy the song and help us bring this concept and project to reality.




Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
Lee Wulff, The Atlantic Salmon

GillBilly Vimeo Video: THE WAY WE WERE

Classic huge historical Surfing/La Jolla High School/San Diego photo collection.

THE WAY WE WERE from Tommy & Jean Carroll on Vimeo.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.
Izaak Walton

GillBilly YouTube video: 1973 Austrian F1 Grand Prix

Clay Regazzoni in-car recon lap in the Marboro BRM followed by the start of the race. Amazingly well preserved copy. Natural sounds video... no commentary.



There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

New GillBilly Product Video

Be patient and calm - for no one can catch fish in anger.
Herbert Hoover

GillBilly YouTube video: Baja 1000 Trophy Truck Jumps Part 1

SCORE 2010 Baja 1000 Trophy Truck Jumps Part 1




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There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.
Lefty Kreh

GillBilly YouTube video: Baja 1000 Robby Gordon Jump

Robby Gordon Super Slo-Mo 2010 Baja 1000 Jump



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One thing becomes clearer as one gets older and one's fishing experience increases, and that is the paramount importance of one's fishing companions.
John Ashley-Cooper

GillBilly YouTube video: Killers Huge waves 11-3-2010 3/3

First Day Out this Season at the Todos Santos Islands Filming the HUGE Waves.
Part Three



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The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming; thus it is with time.
Leonardo DaVinci

GillBilly YouTube video: Killers Huge waves 11-3-2010 2/3

First Day Out this Season at the Todos Santos Islands Filming the HUGE Waves.
Part Two



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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
Vince Lombardi

GillBilly YouTube video: Killers Huge waves 11-3-2010 1/3

First Day Out this Season at the Todos Santos Islands Filming the HUGE Waves.
Part One



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There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.
Roderick Haig-Brown

GillBilly YouTube Video Series: Resurrection - From Despare to Rejoice

Resurrection was nominated for two Academy Awards; one for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ellen Burstyn) and another for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Eva LeGallienne). Ms. Burstyn is featured in this clip. They lost to Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner's Daughter and Mary Steenburgen in Melvin and Howard respectively. This movie was released in 1980 and is currently not available other than on second hand VHS tapes or bootleg DVDs.

After a car crash leaves her paralyzed and widowed, Edna McCauley (Ellen Burstyn) returns to her small hometown in Kansas to recuperate. During recovery, she notices a strange, almost mystical side effect of her near-death experience. Despite her own religious disbelief, Edna starts to exhibit miraculous abilities and goes on to become a healer. Edna captivates her town, peacefully healing the sick and dying with a touch of her hands in a deeply moving and spiritual journey. When she heals Cal (Sam Shepard), a local farmer, after a night of fighting, he begins to court her, and the two begin a passionate romance. As their relationship blossoms, Edna begins to heal her own physical and psychological wounds, coming to peace with the death of her husband (Jeffrey DeMunn) and working to understand her new fate. However, Cal believes that Edna's mystical abilities are a sign of God's will, and he refuses to accept Edna's belief that her powers simply come from deep love and understanding. Edna will not compromise her own beliefs in a spiritual and ideological battle with Cal that ends in a violent and disturbing climax. Burstyn delivers a tour-de-force, Oscar-nominated performance as a modern-day miracle in this unforgettable story of love and devotion. Director Daniel Petrie's film features an outstanding supporting cast, including Richard Farnsworth, Eva Le Gallienne, and Richard Hamilton.

In 2010, this film will be released on DVD as part of the Universal Vault Series of DVD-on-Demand titles.

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Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.
Charles Kuralt

GillBilly Video: Just A Couple Of Good Ole Boys

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.
Arnold Gingrich

GillBilly YouTube Video: Kitten Chronicals Part 6

In this video collection we follow the growth and development of 3 kittens. Carlos Pablo Newman Franco Sinatra, the white male kitten, Gringa, the brown tiger striped female, and Tia, the white, brown and grey calico female. This video illustrates the 3rd month after birth.

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The fish and I were both stunned and disbelieving to find ourselves connected by a line.
William Humphrey in "The Armchair Angler"

GillBilly Video: Adolph's Bad Day...

In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn't, much of the thrill of angling would be gone.
Ray Bergman

GillBilly YouTube Video: Jimi Hendrix - Devonshire Downs Pop Festival 1/3

RARE AND HOT - JIMI HENDRIX - Devonshire Downs Newport Pop Festival. June 20-22, 1969 - This is the Sunday afternoon impromptu jam when Jimi showed up unexpectedly (6/22/69). The Jimi Hendrix Experience got paid a huge sum 2 days earlier, Friday night (6/20/69), which at the time was the largest sum ever paid to a rock act ($100-125K). Jimi was heckled by reported "racists" in the audience, got angry, played the set angry but still played a BLISTERING Red House & Hear My Train. Jimi returned 2 days later, because he felt bad about what happened Friday night...

The Gillbilly was there Friday night right under Jimi, center stage, it wasn't racism, it was that the crowd kept yelling out the hits from his first album to play, Jimi kept trying to get the crowd to lay back and groove, as he wanted to do... he pulled his patch cord and flipped off the entire crowd in a half pirouette totally pissed off as he left the Experience on stage... it was freaking CLASSIC!

This is the rare video footage taken when Jimi came back Sunday and jammed with Buddy Miles and some Mother Earth guys... that's the GillBilly there somewhere in the crowd... the Orange Sunshine was beaming that weekend!

The last Experience concert took place one week later on June 29, 1969 at Barry Fey's Denver Pop Festival, a three-day event held at Denver's Mile High Stadium that was marked by police firing tear gas into the audience as they played "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". The band escaped from the venue in the back of a rental truck which was partly crushed by fans trying to escape the tear gas. The next day, Noel Redding announced that he had quit the Experience.

Concert Performers

Friday, June 20, 1969

Albert King, Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joe Cocker with Leon Russel, Southwind, Spirit and Taj Mahal.

Saturday, June 21, 1969

Albert Collins, Brenton Wood, Buffy Ste. Marie, Charity, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eric Burdon, Friends of Distinction, Jethro Tull, Lee Michaels, Love, Steppenwolf and Sweetwater.

Sunday, June 22, 1969

Booker T & the MGs, Chambers Brothers, Flock, Grass Roots, Johnny Winter, Marvin Gaye, Mother Earth, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles, Mother Earth, Eric Burdon (jam), Poco (formerly Pogo), The Byrds, The Rascals and Three Dog Night.

"I've gone fishing thousands of times in my life, and I have never once felt unlucky or poorly paid for those hours on the water."
William Tapply "A Fly-Fishing Life"

GillBilly YouTube Video: John Winston Lennon the Legacy continues...

We Heard the news today, oh boy...
30 1/2 years ago. Has it really been that long? The void is still so huge.
We miss you profoundly John.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.
Grover Cleveland

GillBilly YouTube Video: SCORE 2010 Baja 500 Part Two

Soon after I embraced the sport of angling I became convinced that I should never be able to enjoy it if I had to rely on the cooperation of the fish.
Sparse Grey Hackle

GillBilly YouTube Video: SCORE 2010 Baja 500 Part One

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.
Jack Gartside

GillBilly YouTube Video: San Diego Bay Chili Tsunami Tide Event

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt.
Izaak Walton