Brookie???

We went fishing at Lake Kirkwood on Friday (6/22).  We fished from 9 AM to 10 AM without a bite!  One of our favorite lakes where we normally limited out, but today all we saw was a monster fish chasing our lure without a hit!

Then at 10 AM, it was every fisherman's dream when he has a bunch of kids wanting to catch fish rather than fishing....  Yes....  THE FISH TRUCK ARRIVED!!!  1,100 RAINBOW WERE DUMPED INTO THE LAKE!!!  Yours truly got it on camera.

ONE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED RAINBOW!!!

Unfortunately, another hour went by before the first fish was landed by a nearby fisherman!  Super strange.  We tried just about everything and only managed six fish total by 2 PM.  We left and spoke with the camp host.  He told us that we were the only successful fishermen within the past two weeks that he was there?!?!?

My suspicion is that the water was super warm.  As soon as the fish were dumped into the lake, they took off to the deeper parts of the lake.  Also, they may have been well fed at the hatchery before their trek up the mountain.  Nevertheless, this may have been the very first time where we did not limited out when the fish were being dumped into the lake.  The fisherman next to us was trying just about everything also, but only landed the very initial fish.  How strange!  Additionally, what's also super strange is that we caught two monster size brook trout!!!  Well, at least they're monster by our standards since we don't typically catch 'em.  They resemble baby salmon.  Can't wait to have 'em for dinner.

What a beauty!

Beautiful brook trout!

The children didn't catch a lot of fish, but they manage to have their own fun...

I gotta big minnow 😀

Not gonna get my hands dirty!

Let's just jump into the lake videos!!!

We got back home just in time for Holy Mass!

Peace,
-JU

Just Another Fishing... Friday

Lake Alpine is about two and half hour's drive from SacTown.  Today there were lots of roadway constructions and one-way traffic control.  But once we got to our destination, it was definitely worth the trip.

We fished from 11 AM until 2 PM.  We caught a total of five fish, with the biggest being a fifteen incher, pink meat, rainbow trout.  Fishing was not as productive as yesterday.  We caught three on the power ball from the bottom, one on the Thomas, and another on night crawler.

End of fishing report😁

Have a blessed day.

Let's go scouting

Whoa...

Another nice lake

What?!?!

Not bad...

Where are the fishing poles?!?!

On Da Single Hook!

It was a fun day going up to Lower Blue Lake to catch some planted trout!

We started near the ramp soaking power bait and casting lures.  It took about an hour just to catch ten trout.  I started walking towards the dam casting a Thomas Buoyant with a single hook.  Pretty soon I discovered a lot of planted trout near the dam.  So we moved our gears😁  Soon we started getting lots of hits on our lures, but landing the trout was a challenge.  This was because I swapped out most of the treble hooks that came with the lures into the single hook!  It became a bragging right if we caught the fish using a single hook lure.

By the end of our fishing trip, we manage to land a few...

Forget fishing....  The sight is incredible!

First ten by the ramp

Eureka!

God is good!

Next adventure?  May be tomorrow...

It's Been a Rough Several Weeks

But God is good!

Haven't been blogging in a while because it's been a rough last several weeks....

Close friend from High School lost her dad; lost a good and dear family friend Rev. Eugene Lawlor; and, lost a loving Sister-In-Law....  All within a span of two weeks!

So this blog will be about random stuff....

First off....  Brother Fish Whisperer (FW) hit it big with trout in the Sierras...

 Church events...

JU became a proud Godfather to Geodude

Mrs. Miracles and niece went to see Patrick Madrid

Home front....

JU and Mrs. Miracles

Yes, mangos growing in SacTown

Friend from High School...

Friend's mom in the middle

High School friend

Annual Sunset Beach camping pictures....

Poem found from HS friend's dad's last papers:

May God bless your day!

-JU

2018 First Shad Trip

Went fishing with Patriarch, Captain, and Excitable Fisherman today.  This is my first shad fishing trip for 2018.  The current was not running very fast.  We found a bunch of fish on the fish finder at around 25 feet depth, across from Miller Park.  We missed a few and landed seven total.  For shad, that's very little for four fishermen fishing six hours!

However, I enjoyed every moment of it.  I didn't even keep the fish.  Watching my dad (Patriarch) enjoyed fishing was my reward!

Lots of huge logs passed by the boat.  We lost several rigs due to snags.  Be careful out there....

Finally, while I was helping Captain land his fish, I put the net down; and the fish hopped right in to it!  Captured it on GoPro.  Check it out!

God bless,
-JU

Another Awesome Bass Day

Windows 10 Update has disabled the recognition of GoPro Hero3+  Yes, my GoPro is dated.  I have found a solution; however, no video this time....

I went fishing with Grandmaster (GMF) yesterday drifting minnows.  Surprisingly, we got very few bites on the minnows.  That's when GMF introduced me to a different grub, that is, different than the hula grub.  I am a beginner bass fisherman and prefer the easy "drifting minnows" technique.  However, I have tried different grubs in the past, but have not caught any bass with the exception of the hula grub.  But yesterday, I may have caught my personal best on the grub?  The bass was 20-inch and 3 pounds!  My current personal best was June 1st, 2017.  That bass was caught drifting minnows....

Before noon, we caught two limits!!!  God is good!

20-inch, 3#

Grandmaster Fisherman!

JU is in da house!

Here's the grub that produced...  1/4 oz jig head?

Rod and reel combo for $10 at Dick's Sporting Goods.  Wait until the 50% off sale 😀

Have a blessed day!
-JU

FORTY-FIVE INCH STRIPED BASS!!!

Went fishing this morning armed with blood worms because that's what been catching striped bass for the past week.  Unfortunately, this morning, they hit nothing but TOP LURES!!!

I witnessed this young man landed the biggest striped bass ever!  It took him TEN minutes to land it.  I edited the video into one minute for your viewing.  The fish measured by yours truly to be FORTY-FIVE inches!  Wowsha!

WizTech got to assist in pulling the fish in...

Forty-five inch lunker!

Short video:

The word is that they will be in the river hitting top lures for the next two weeks only!  So get out there.  Hopefully, you may see a video of JU landing a big one in the near future....

Hope your day is going well,
-JU