'What a Lucky Day'

Date: 9-2-19 – Labor Day

Who: Tracy Henry

Where: In bed at Glasgow, Montana at home with his four children and wife Heather

Time: 3 a.m.

What: Asking himself if he should travel fifteen miles east to Fort Peck Lake Dam area and take a chance on catching a Chinook salmon. His boat was fueled and tackle readied the evening before, but his fishing buddy, his 5-year-old daughter Miracle, didn’t want to go, finding her bed way more comfortable than the fifty-degree early morning temps the lake had to offer.

Tracy, after a cup of coffee and finding himself being lured by the attraction of a twenty-p...