Thread: Thermocline on Jordan

This is a good thread and a great topic of conversation. The thermocline is a very real and present factor in summertime fishing for any species of fish and I believe it is the reason for statement "Dead Sea" being born and used among fishermen who say they can't buy a bite. Case in point: I heard a couple of fishermen say how Shearon Harris Lake used to be such an awesome place to fish; a lake where you could always catch all of the crappie you wanted to; but now due to what they complained was excessive fishing pressure... has turned into nothing more than the "dead sea."

After answering their question as to how I'd done that day and upon hearing my response that I had caught my fair share... I went on to ask them how and at what depth they were fishing. Well, I found out real quick that they were fishing well below the thermocline where (I'm sure) it is very much like fishing in the "Dead Sea". They looked at me with the same puzzled look that they might if I would have had three heads.

My point is: You would be surprised to know just how many... even "so called" veterans of fishing... don't really understand or have the first clue about water layering and/or the whole thermocline thing of summertime fishing.