Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!

It's been an awesome year!!!  Since my lovely wife Mrs. Miracles retired earlier in the year, I was able to do more fishing 👍  As most of you know, I have way too many things to be thankful and grateful for, among which, your friendship and love top the list!!!

HAVE A BLESSED THANKSGIVING!!!

Here are more 2017 fish pictures for your enjoyment:

JU's 2017 Salmon Fishing Log

This will be the last entry for salmon news from the Sac. River and the American River for me.

It has been an incredible long and hard salmon fishing season in Walnut Grove by the shore.  I considered myself extremely blessed to take home EIGHT for the season.  I had a great opportunity to test out my lures and they worked great!  Thanks be to God!

On the other hand, I took two trips to the American River to fish for salmon.  The first trip, I did a solo with the Ave Maria at 3,500 cubic feet per second water released from Nimbus Dam.  I won't be trying that anytime soon.  The Ave Maria barely made it back to base with the 50 lb. thrust Minn Kota.  I got motion sickness in the process and had walk the Ave Maria back to base.

The second trip out to the American River was with PRO, and I already blog that for you all.  Limit out in less than an hour!!!  Can't get better than that.

Summary in Pictures:

The most viewed salmon video for 2017:

The least viewed salmon video for 2017:

Now for some R & R.

May God bless your day,
-JU

Missed It By THAT Much

Monday through Friday, I was blessed to be fishing 3 hours each day.  THAT'S FIFTEEN HOURS OF FISHING!!!  Yesterday, was the only bite I got and I "missed it by that much!"

I was reeling in the SIREN for a recast, when it happened.  The fish startled me by yanking the SIREN down.  I set the hook and was about to pick up the net because the fish was practically by my feet!!!  Then the fish pulled away and I saw the fish's head waggled back and forth!!!  It was about a ten pounder.  It spit the hook out and darted away as if it was laughing at me!!!  I missed it by that much 😀

Throughout the week, I decided to soak some JU's homemade cured salmon roe; there were no takers.  Darn!

Raining season just started here in SacTown.  I saw a fantastic double rainbow.  Here's a picture of just the one rainbow that GoPro captured:

Peace out,
-JU

One Limit for the Week

FRIDAY - ST. MARTIN DE PORRES DAY

JU put in another 2 hours this morning.  The water conditions were beautiful; unfortunately, the salmon all had locked jaws 😕  And, JU donated another Green Pirate Squid to the river.  Darn!

Summary of the week in pictures:

THURSDAY - ALL SOULS DAY

Fished at the dock today for 1.5 hours; still ZERO after ten trips!!!  Six fishermen were there.  The Dock Patrol had just left when JU arrived.  It is interesting that whenever JU fished with the Dock Patrol, no fish was caught.  But when JU left, shortly after, Dock Patrol would catch a salmon!  So JU said, "You will be renamed the Dock Master Fisherman when you can catch a salmon in JU's presence.  LOL.  😂 "

Those of you who have been following this blog, know that the Captain & JU have never caught a salmon trolling the Sac. River.  At the dock today, JU met a guy who had success trolling the Sac. River and he gave JU the low down.

Watch the video:

WEDNESDAY - ALL SAINTS DAY

All the Saints in Heaven must be praying for JU today because after FIFTY TIMES out in the Sac River this season, fishing for almost 130 hours, loosing 8 lures, traveling over 2,000 miles, casting over 2,000 casts, JU finally limited out!!!  The first salmon was on board at 8 AM and the second at 8:30 AM.  Both were caught on the Green Pirate Squid SIREN: Green Pirate rules....

Thank you Saints!  Thank the Good Lord!  GOD IS GOOD!!!

Total length of the following video is around 3 minutes.  The first fish took around a minute to land, so the video speed was normal; however, the second fish took SIX MINUTES to land, so the video speed was sped up by 4 times.

TUESDAY - ALL HALLOWS' EVE

Today, Johnny was by himself at the Oak Tree.  So, he decided to soak a Sardine Wrapped Kwikfish on one rod while he used the SIREN on the other rod.  As he was picking up around 10 AM, Roger and Dave came by.  They said there were four guys at the Dock, but no one hooked up.

Another scoreless day :-)

MONDAY

Met three nice fishermen who came all the way from Hayward to try to nab a salmon.  Unfortunately, this is not a great salmon fishing year at this location.  They were throwing Flying C's, while Johnny was throwing the SIREN.  They were all scoreless today.

At one point, Johnny was throwing out his SIREN, and out of the water flew this bird/duck?!?!!  Pretty cool video: