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Don’t Blink: Crazy-Fast Striper Attack

March 16, 2017 By JD Leave a Comment

This quick clip I shot with my [easyazon_link identifier=”B01MAWGG0S” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Water Wolf Camera[/easyazon_link] shows how incredibly fast a striped bass can go on the attack. It’s also interesting to note that he comes to the bait head on, but decides to eat to from behind…

Hot Surf Perch Fishing Tips!

March 9, 2017 By JD 3 Comments

With the 13th Annual San Crab Classic Perch Derby coming to Santa Cruz this Saturday, March 11, 2017, I figured it was time to help you brush up on your perch fishing tactics!

You can also check out my eBook, Light Tackle Surf Perch at Amazon

The derby is full for 2017 and is an awesomely fun even that gives money back to the Monterey Bay Trout and Salmon Project

Be sure to sign up early for next year’s derby if you missed this one!

Crazy Pix: Lake Tahoe from Drought to Near Record Snow in 2 Years!

March 6, 2017 By JD Leave a Comment

With the Sierra snowpack sitting at almost 200% of normal as of March 6, 2017, let’s not forget how far we have come. Here are some photos I shot on a trip to our place in Tahoe back in February of 2015. What an amazing difference!

It looked like summer in the winter of 2015. Here’s a view off Eagle Rock on the West Shore…a spot I’ve never been in the dead of winter…

Looking south off Eagle Rock towards Sugar Pine Point and, eventually, South Lake Tahoe. It was so depressing and scary to see it in February with no snow…

I took a picture of the monkeys that snowless winter, pretending to sled on the driveway, where they normally have their pretend Olympic Games…

And here’s that same driveway now…

The lake level this year is back up above its natural rim but in in Feb of 2015, it was looking bleak…

With the lake back up, the Truckee River is now reaching it’s outlet at Tahoe City. In 2014 that was clearly not the case. This is the view off the dam looking out towards where the lake is supposed to be…

The Truckee was all but dry below the dam too that winter. Here’s looking back upstream towards Fanny Bridge in Tahoe City…

Summer? Nope…Dead of winter 2015…

So, just how much snow have we had this year? Well, here are the totals as of March 1:

Mt. Rose: 650″
Sugar Bowl: 635″
Boreal: 598″
Kirkwood: 577″
Squaw Valley: 575″
Northstar: 561″
Heavenly: 556″
Sierra at Tahoe: 492″
Homewood: 483″
Diamond Peak: 411″

Short answer: A LOT OF SNOW!!

Time to get Pumped Up for Fishing Season!!

March 4, 2017 By JD Leave a Comment

I was skimming though the archives of the FishwithJD Youtube channel and ran across this video of underwater salmon bites I shot last summer. Yeah, I’ve posted it before, but after a long winter, it got me fired up to fish…and figured it would pump you up, too!

Amazing Flood Pix: CA Delta Feb. 11, 2017

February 11, 2017 By JD 24 Comments

We took JD-Force 1 up today to get a bird’s eye view of the flooding in California. There’s been a lot of talk about the spillway at Oroville Dam lately, but I also wanted to see how the lower end of the system was faring. What we saw was amazing!

Starting with Liberty Island in the North Delta. Look at the debris and the whitewater…

The Rio Vista Bridge looks like it doesn’t have much clearance right now. Lots of homes and businesses on the shore either flooded or getting very close…

Looking down Cache Slough towards Rio Vista. The current speed and amount of debris in the water is staggering…

Hidden Harbor where Steamboat and Cache Sloughs meet..

A closer look at the bottom end of the Liberty Island area, where Prospect and Cache slough meet…

The Wimpy’s and New Hope area of the Mokelumne River, where the houseboats broke loose on Friday. All the house trailers are gone…I hope everybody was able to get out in time…