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JD’s Books: Perfect Reading Material for the Quarantine!

March 30, 2020 By JD Leave a Comment

Can’t fish? Well, you might as well read about it! Since you are probably stuck at home these days, now’s a great time to catch up on your fishing techniques.

Here’s my catalog of how-to titles, available through Amazon.

The Ultimate Guide to Steelhead Bank Fishing: (263 pages, $11.99 Digital Copy)

Jam packed with all the how-to info you need become a proficient bank angler: reading the water, curing bait rigging diagrams and tons of other stuff — it’s all in here

Light Tackle Surf Perch: (52 pages, $2.99 Digital Copy)

Thanks to detailed diagrams, photos and descriptive text, you’ll learn how to identify likely looking perch hang outs like troughs, holes, rips and more. Richey also shares secrets he’s learned from commercial perch anglers and other top beach fishermen and passes them on to you so you can be successful.

Plug Fishing For River Fishing: (69 pages, $2.99 Digital Copy)

In this, the most comprehensive guide of its kind ever assembled, JD covers everything you need to know to consistently catch river salmon on wobbling plugs like FlatFish and Kwikfish.

Packed with full color photographs and diagrams, the book covers everything from the basics to sophisticated tricks used by pro guides.

Light Tackle Delta Striper Secrets: (58 pages, $2.99 Digital Copy)

 In this book, JD shares the pro tips you need to catch striped bass in the Delta. Packed with photos and insightful diagrams, Richey shows you how to locate stripers, what to look for in a spot, how to work the tide to you advantage… and how to get bit using light tackle techniques like topwater, swimbaits and jigging. 

Side Drifting for Steelhead: (Paperback, $14.53 Digital Copy)

In this book, JD shares everything you need to know to become a successful side-drifter. Best describe ed as a family of techniques, side-drifting includes three methods–freedrifting, side gliding, boondogging. Each method is explained in depth and includes the basic gear you’ll need. 

Filed Under: Techniques Tagged With: beach fishing, fishing tips, How-to, king salmon, Salmon, Steelhead, striped bass, surf fishing, surf perch

Rockfish with Crackling Ginger

August 17, 2015 By JD 1 Comment

Yum!

Looking for an awesome, supremely easy way to cook up white-fleshed fish like rock/lingcod, halibut and striped bass? This is it!

You only need a few basic ingredients and even fewer skills in the kitchen to make this turn out fabulous. I learned this from my good friend Rainsong who lives on the ocean in Humboldt County. She adapted it from a similar dish a family member tasted overseas.

The Goods

Ingredients:

  • Fish fillets
  • 1-2 Cups Freshly-Grated Ginger
  • Peanut Oil
  • Green Onions
  • Rice
  • Tamari or Soy Sauce
  • Sesame Seeds

How to Do It:

Start off by cooking the fish. Keep it simple here: Basic steaming works best but you can also lightly pan grill it with a bit of soy and sesame oil…

Cooking Fish

In a small pan, heat up 1/2 to 1 cup of peanut oil. Get it super hot…pull it off the heat when the oil starts smoking, Be careful here!

While the oil is heating, spread the cooked rice over a platter. You can go white or brown here…whichever you prefer. Then, place the cooked fish on top…

fish on rice

You next move is to cover the fish in fresh ginger, green onions and the drizzle on Tamari or soy sauce. You can also add sesame seeds…

ready for Action

Now, here’s where the magic (& fun) happens! Take the smoking hot oil and lightly drizzle it over the whole dish. The heat of the liquid will caramelize the ginger. Check out the video…

And that’s it! Serve that baby up and enjoy! Rainsong said that the recipe is so simple she’s even done it while camping!

Want to learn how to catch rockfish? Check out my guide to catching rockfish with light tackle.

Filed Under: Cooking, Techniques Tagged With: Cooking, halibut, lingcod, recipe, rockfish, striped bass

Underwater Stripers: The Rejection!

May 19, 2015 By JD 2 Comments

The Rejection

Denied! Here’s an underwater pic shot on my [easyazon_link identifier=”B00PJ27DRC” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Water Wolf Camera[/easyazon_link] today of a striped bass giving my lure the equivalent of the middle finger.

He followed for about 10 feet and then decided something just didn’t look right. The interesting part of this shot is the fact that my lure has flipped upside-down…right at the same time the fish rejected it. In previous frames, he was right on the plug’s tail…and the lure was running true.

I had no idea the plug had any roll to it, even after tuning it next to the boat…and yet here it is “flying inverted.”

To see the two pics of what occurred just before the rejection, read on…Click here to read more…

Filed Under: Underwater Photos/Video Tagged With: striped bass, underwater, water wolf

Underwater Striper Bite Caught on Camera

May 14, 2015 By JD 9 Comments

Striper Bite 1
This afternoon, I had yet another chance to play around with my [easyazon_link identifier=”B00PJ27DRC” locale=”US” tag=”fiwijd-20″]Okuma Water Wolf[/easyazon_link] underwater camera and caught a striper bite on film!

In the shot above, you can see the lure working its way downstream and then it is intercepted head on by a 5-pound striper…

Striper Bite 2

In the video, it appears that the fish bites the lure head first but when you slow it down and watch it frame by frame, you can see that he actually spins on a dime in a nano-second and comes up behind the lure…

Striper Bite 3

The speed at which the fish spins on the bait and inhales it is amazing…

Striper Bite 4

At this point he’s hooked…

Striper Bite 5

And then turns downstream. Notice how the back hook is still hanging free…

Striper Bite 6

The fish seemed to instinctively know to get in the fast water and actually burned some drag. Part of the camera is now in view too…

Striper Bite 7

During the fight, another striper came over to see what was happening…

Striper Bite 8

Is this stuff as fascinating to you as it is me? Man, I just find the underwater view so dang cool! There’s a lot to learn by looking at videos and stills…and you can rest assured you’ll see a lot more of this stuff here soon!

Filed Under: Underwater Photos/Video Tagged With: striped bass, underwater, water wolf

Underwater Striper Action!

May 8, 2015 By JD Leave a Comment

In the clear water with a bright sun, the bass were more into chasing than biting

In the clear water with a bright sun, the bass were more into chasing than biting

So, what do striped bass look like underwater as they are chasing a plug? Well, today I busted out the Okuma Water Wolf HD underwater camera again and tried to find out.

I had a short window…and it was in the middle of the day, buT i found a few pods of stripers and got some to react to my lure. They would’t eat it, so next time out, I’m going to try dropping the lure back on a longer leader. Still, so cool stuff…

This guy got right up close and personal but didn't commit  Again, I think the fact that I had about a 6-inch leader between the lure and camera may have been part of the issue.

This guy got right up close and personal but didn’t commit Again, I think the fact that I had about a 6-inch leader between the lure and camera may have been part of the issue.

This one's kinda cool in that the fish appears to be zeroing in on the Water Wolf instead of the bait!

This one’s kinda cool in that the fish appears to be zeroing in on the Water Wolf instead of the bait!

Filed Under: Underwater Photos/Video Tagged With: striped bass, underwater, water wolf

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