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Spring is Surf Perch Time!

May 3, 2016 By JD Leave a Comment

Surf PerchSpring’s a fantastic time to chase of of my favorite fish — surf perch — up and down the beaches of the West Coast!

While it’s long been considered a heavy tackle type of deal…a way to simply collect meat…you can have a ball with these feisty little buggers on light gear.

All you need some light tackle, the right bait and a little knowledge! For under $3 you can get all the info you need to catch these babies in my ebook, Light Tackle Surf Perch (which Amazon customers have rated at 4.5/5 stars!). It’s available through Amazon, Apple iBooks, and PDF

Inside, I’ll show you everything  about where to find and how to catch these fun fish! Here’s a sample…

Perch Rig

Near Shore Trough

For more information: Light Tackle Surf Perch Fishing

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Winter Run Chinook on the Brink of Extinction

October 29, 2015 By JD Leave a Comment

  

Winter Run king salmon in the Sacramento River appear to be on the fast track to disappearing from the Earth. With runs so diminished, there are potentially huge implications for fishermen and farmers coming soon, including cutbacks in water deliveries and sweeping fishing closures. 
Check out this article in the Sacramento Bee for more info. 

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All 3 of My eBooks Currently in Amazon’s Top 100!

September 26, 2015 By JD Leave a Comment

Okay, this is pretty cool…all three of my fishing eBooks are currently in Amazon’s Top 100! A very heart-felt thank you to all of you out there who purchased copies — and also for leaving such good reviews!! I’ve had quite a few questions come to me from readers regarding my writing and they all seem to want to know the same thing – what do you need to do to publish a book? In my experience, especially talking to others who have also written books, the process of bringing a book into your readers’ hands is not as complicated as you might first think. There are many different routes that you can investigate. Many find that self-publishing by distributing their content as an eBook is the most effective way of kickstarting a literary career, but experiences differ depending on who you talk to; some like to go straight to literary agents or even publishers directly in the hopes that they’ll be willing to take a chance on them and bring their book to print. There’s plenty of help you can find online with regards to publishing a book and I’d love to hear how people get on with it.

As you can see below — I had to take some screen shots because you just never know how long it will last :) — Plug Fishing for River Salmon has actually cracked the Top 20; Light Tackle Fishing for Surfperch is sitting at #69 and Light Tackle Delta Striper Secrets just limped into the Top 100.

Many folks have been asking when the next volume is coming out and…good news…The Ultimate Guide to Bank Fishing for Steelhead will be out sometime in November…and in addition to the electronic version, we are considering doing a “real” book as well! I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, thanks again for all the love and support!

Amazon Top 100

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The Ling that Ate my Camera!

August 28, 2015 By JD Leave a Comment

lingcodRIP [easyazon_link identifier=”B00R8I6W5O” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Water Wolf Camera[/easyazon_link]….On a recent ocean trip, I had some amazing footage going of lings, rockfish and cabezon eating live herring on camera.

I kept telling myself to quit while I was ahead but getting killer shots with those cameras is so damned addicting. So, I dropped it down with one more herring.

That’s when big mama ling came out and grabbed my bait. I had her up off the bottom three times before she made one final run and dragged my gear…camera and all…into the rocks. The braid snapped like cobweb and there went the Water Wolf…and all that awesomely cool underwater video. :(

Here are some videos/pix that I shot before the camera got eaten:

Underwater Striper Bite

Lake Tahoe Underwater

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Farmed Salmon: Unhealthy & Unsustainable!

May 27, 2014 By JD Leave a Comment

It’s a really bad sign when we give up on something (in this case wild salmon & clean rivers) and move onto something else (like Atlantic salmon farms). Does that mean we have given up hope for the future of wild fish? That’s it? Just move on?

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