They're....... HERE!!!

If you are an avid fisherman in SacTown, you know that the salmon fishing season officially opened on July 16th in the Sacramento River where JU fishes!  And if you read this blog, you know that JU has struck out in four tries :-)

But today... that's another story!

JU went to his favorite salmon hole from the banks with his homemade lures and was pleasantly surprised that no other fisherman was there.  He started fishing at 7 AM and using the Pinky that he had almost lost last time.

Pinky SIREN

About half an hour later with no results, he switched over to Chartreuse and fished for another half an hour with the same result, which is "nada."  So he switched back to Pinky.  But this time he added a little tail that he used for trout.

Added a little trout bait :-)

A few minutes later, he felt that familiar soft tug.  Set the hook, baby!  BAM!!!  Fish on!!!  It was difficult netting the fish by himself, but God is good!!!  He landed a beauty 31-inch, 12-pound, wild hen that still had scales on!

Here's a selfie of JU holding the prize for the day :-)

Look at the scale flakes on her.

The meat looks great and JU and family can't wait to have some for dinner tonight.

Yummy, yummy, yummy.  Well, at least at dinner time.

Thanks be to God, the GoPro was on too :-)  Here's the video.

May God bless your day,
-JU