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 Photo Surf Report: Killers Huge Waves 11-3-2010

Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
Herbert Hoover

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 Report: Todos Santos Islands Surfing - December 26, 2009

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
Don Marquis

GillBilly Report: Todos Santos Islands Surfing - December 27, 2009

After that first trout I was alone in there. But I didn't
know it until later.
Richard Brautigan

GillBilly Report: Todos Santos Islands Surfing - November 8, 2009

Killers November 8th...

I once gave up fishing, it was the most terrifying weekend of my life.
Author Unknown

GillBilly Report: Todos Santos Islands Surfing - October 2009

Two trips to Killers October 23rd and 24th...

Unless one can enjoy himself fishing with the fly, even when his efforts are unrewarded, he loses much real pleasure. More than half the intense enjoyment of fly fishing is derived from the beautiful surroundings, the satisfaction felt from being in the open air, the new lease on life secured thereby, and the many, many pleasant recollections of all one has seen, heard and done.
Charles F. Orvis

GillBilly Report: Mexico Decriminalizes Drug Possession

Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession
(AP) 8-20-2009

MEXICO CITY — Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging free government treatment for drug dependency.

The law defines "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamines. People detained with those quantities no longer face criminal prosecution when the law goes into effect on Friday.

Anyone caught with drug amounts under the personal-use limit will be encouraged to seek treatment, and for those caught a third time treatment is mandatory — although the law does not specify penalties for noncompliance.

In 2006, the U.S. government publicly criticized a similar bill. Then-President Vicente Fox sent that law — which did not have a mandatory treatment provision — back to Congress for reconsideration.

The maximum amount considered to be for "personal use" under the new law is 5 grams of marijuana — the equivalent of two or three joints — or a half-gram of cocaine. The limit for methamphetamine is 40 milligrams, and 0.015 milligrams of LSD.

The law was approved by Congress before it recessed in late April, and President Felipe Calderon — who is leading a major offensives against drug cartels — waited most of the summer before enacting it.

Calderon's original proposal would have required first-time detainees to complete treatment or face jail time. But the lower house of Congress, where Calderon's party was short of a majority, weakened the bill.

Mexico has emphasized the need to differentiate between addicts or casual consumers and the violent drug traffickers whose turf battles have contributed to the deaths of over 11,000 people during Calderon's term. And in the face of growing domestic drug use, Mexico has increased its focus on prevention and drug treatment.

Sen. Pablo Gomez of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party praised the legislation: "This law achieves the decriminalization of drugs, and in exchange, offers government recovery treatment for addicts."

Previously, all drug possession was punishable by stiff jail sentences, with some leeway for those considered addicts and caught with smaller amounts. In practice, relatively few people were prosecuted and sentenced to jail for small-time possession.

While the United States openly expressed concern about the 2006 law, this time around it has been more circumspect.

Asked about the new law in July, U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said he would adopt a "wait-and-see attitude."

"If the sanction becomes completely nonexistent I think that would be a concern, but I actually didn't read quite that level of de facto (decriminalization) in the law," said Kerlikowske, who heads the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Whether the law's proposed sanctions "are actually enough or not, I'm not sure," he said.

The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing.
Sam Snead

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Thirteen

All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to
admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love
or hating moonlight.
John Steinbeck

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Twelve

Fishing is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it...
Harry Middleton

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Eleven

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

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Ten

"I'm going out to fish," Simon Peter told them, and they said, "We'll go with you." So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
John 21:3

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Nine

One fish. Two fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Black fish. Blue fish. Old fish. New fish. This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say! What a lot of fish there are.
Dr. Seuss

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Eight

The solution to any problem - work, love, money, whatever - is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be."
John Gierach

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Seven

Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon.
Patrick F. McManus

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Six

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

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Five

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.
Thomas McGuane

NEW: YouTube Baja Surf Photo Show Part Four

The Reef Crew Rips Baja!

Part One

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