Striped Bass - Zero; Shad - Four

It's old news that we have had a fantastic wet season!  It's new news that we are having a record heat week here in Sac Town!  So to escape the heat, we go fishing....

Friday, June 23rd

The family and WizTech  were planning to go fish at a lake full of trout, but at the last minute, we found out that there is still 8 inches of snow on the access road....  We abandoned that plan.  Thus, WizTech and I were the only die-hard that went to visit the Carson River instead.

Here are two videos of the two locations that we visited!

Did I mention that we had a wet season?

But what's incredible was that I landed TWO cutthroats using the Z!!!  God is good!!!

Saturday, June 24th

Then, on Saturday, I was blessed to be fishing with PRO on the American River!  Our plan was to catch shad and use as bait to catch a monster striped bass!  But until we caught shad, we used live minnows instead!

Shortly into our trip down river, we hooked into a steelhead!  Yes, a steelhead!  It attacked the minnow viciously.  Unfortunately, it became unbuttoned by the boat.

We eventually landed a bait size shad to use to entice striped bass, but there were no takers for the day.  However, PRO did land TWO striped bass while using grubs for shad?!?!!

Striped bass candy!

One of the two striped bass caught by PRO.

We want you to come back in a few more years...

The battery on the GroPro went dead just as I set the hook on the striped bass trying to steal a minnow!!!  It was landed, but was released to grow bigger!

Here's the video of the biggest fish of the day....

I leave you with pictures of my brother PRO in action:

Fish on, brother!

Whopping 3 pound, 21 inches!!!

In summary, we hooked into a steelhead; we landed and released three "head shaker" striped bass; we also landed four shad.

God is good!!!

Peace out,
-JU