My alter ego name is Peter Pa...n, no Park...er, no the Pumpkin Pie Eater. That's it: My alter ego name is Peter, the Pumpkin Pie Eater or TriplePE. When I hold a fishing pole and say the magic words (Fish on!), I change: I become Johnny United, the Ultimate Fisherman!
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| TriplePE: "Fish on!" |
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| JU, the Ultimate Fisherman! |
Introducing: The Striker!
While fishing at Liberty Island, Vu caught the biggest striper of his life. Trying to remove the fish from the net, he was bitten by the radioactive striper. He became the Striker, striking fear wherever the fish are hiding.
Monday, 11 NOV 2013 - Happy Veterans Day!
Just like Friday, the Captain said that he would come to pick me up at 6:30 am. He was at my door step with the Striker at 6:20 am. I my haste, I forgot my JU power juice (high octane coffee :-) We then picked up the Patriarch. We arrived at our striper fishing hole in Liberty Island around 8 am. We trolled using our usual striper jig, except for me. I've always gotta have some 'in different. I put the striper jig on the bottom and a long JU homemade eel jig on top... We trolled in 3 - 7 feet of water. The Patriarch brought a Berkley Cherrywood HD rod; yes, the same as my Salmon Slayer, except that his is a two-piece spinning rod. He runs the jig at 100 feet plus behind the boat. First pass, he nailed a 25-inch, 5 pounder with the Cherrywood. Today is his day! He boated a total of 4 striper, 2 large mouth, and lost a striper at the net. The Striker nailed a 27-inch, 7 pounder. The Captain netted a 16-incher. And JU??? I let another monster get away :-( I got a monster take-down that I thought I could force in while the boat continues trolling. About 100 yards away and I am not making any progress in getting the fish closer to the boat, I asked the Captain to make a u-turn. The fish fought hard as the boat is making its way back. Then I felt tug, tug, tug, and bling.... The fish won. That's why I enjoy fishing so much. It's like reading your favorite novel and letting your imaginations run wild. I imagine it was at least as big as the 20 pound salmon that I landed a few weeks back. To make the story short, we are super spoiled. We spent 8 hours trolling. We get to keep 3 striped bass and two black bass.... We complained that it was a hard day :-(
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| Let's get to our fishing spot. |
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| 25-inch, 5 pounder boated at 10 am. |
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| Scenery |
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| Scenery |
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| Double hook-ups at noon. Video clip of the 7 pounder. |
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| Boated at 2:30 pm. Video clip of the bass. |
Sunday, 10 NOV 2013
As usual, I met up with ProFisherman at 10:45 am for a Drift through the American Fishing Lane. Today the weather couldn't be more beautiful: no wind and average temperature in the low 70s. Unfortunately, this is not good weather for salmon fishing; they prefer colder temperature. Additionally, I forgot to bring sardine. Thus we trolled one Kwikfish by itself and the other with wrapped salmon eggs. Back and forth the Pro rowed against the current. About the third pass, we got one take down on the left fishing pole, indestructible Rhino one piece bait casting rod. The salmon let go just as fast too! We took a break and anchored at the 12 deep fishing hole where we caught a 20 pounder in 2011. We flat line two poles with Kwikfish and the third we drop it to the bottom with a round sinker. Within a few minutes, the Salmon Slayer did it again with a super hard take down! I removed the rod and set the hook. I felt the fish pulled and there's a wide smile across my face: fish on! My joy was short lived because the salmon let go after a few seconds.... It was a very peaceful fishing trip with two take downs, put none boated.
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| Pro's special salmon roe sushi concoction |
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| Wildlife along the American |
Friday, 08 NOV 2013
I've fished the Sacramento River for salmon twice this year. It was with the Captain and the Patriarch. Both times, the boat malfunctioned and we could barely move at 5 mph. So today I was very excited that the boat is fixed and that I will finally get to jig for salmon in the Sacramento River which is the only technique that I am ever successful at landing salmon in the Sacramento River!
I was picked up at 6:30 am by the Captain. We then picked up the Patriarch. We hit the launched at Garcia Bend at 8:00 am. We went across the river to the South side and jigged downstream in 20 - 40 feet water. We followed other boats jigging about 1 mile down stream and then came back to the North side to jigged some more. We did not get any takers. So we took off and went upstream to my favorite salmon jigging hole, past the Minnow Hole, where the Patriarch got a hit the last time out and thought it was a snag. I jigged my heart out, but did not get any takers. This is the first time that I believe we are skunked at this hole: there's a first time for everything. We got tired of jigging around noon and switched over to trolling with Flying Cs and a 2 oz. dropper. For the next hour, we trolled. Not one single bite for the entire day.
The 72 year-old husband wife team that the Captain knew, launched at the same time that we did. By noon, they picked up and left with one salmon on the jig and two additional salmon trolling spinners behind a 1.5 oz dropper at speed number 3 on the electric motor.
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