I went fishing on the Alsea River with friend Matt Borg with a guide in his drift boat for Fall Chinook Salmon today. I got up at 4:00 am for the great priviledge and we were on the water a couple miles above tide water by daylight. We fished with bobbers and salmon eggs. It is a fun way to fish because it is so visual. We cast to the side of the boat out in the current and let the bobber drift down with the eggs below the bobber held down in the water a little bit off of the bottom by a small amount of lead. We just let out line “mending” it occasionally so that the line is above the bobber. When the bobber starts bouncing a bit in the water we put our thumbs down hard on the spool and when the bobber goes down hard we set the hook hard and the fight is on. Matt and I both caught two very nice chinook salmon in one hole in about an hour. It was a blast. Fishing is probably my favorite activity of all the things I do. I think the reason is because it was my Dad’s favorite thing to do and it was almost always done when I was a kid as a reward for some significant accomplishment. When we got the first cutting of hay in we would go fishing. When we got the addition on the barn built we went fishing. When Jesus called His disciples most of them were fishermen by trade. When He called them to follow Him, He said that He would make them “fishers of men”. I am looking forward to my next fishing trip.