Pea Ridge Road Bridge, Jordan Lake

You guys know how I like screenshots and wanted to share a special one with you. The picture below is of the Pea Ridge Road over New Hope Creek. My Grandparent's home was about 300 yards from this bridge. The Vista Point parking lot is all that remains of their land that is out of water. A group of demolition guys from Ft. Bragg came up and used dynamite (or some explosive) to drop the bridge.

I have lots of memories from time spent down at the creek. There was a driveway down to the water on one side of the bridge. A number of times over the years my Father would float the creek in a small boat with his cousin Jerry. They would have someone pick them up in the area that is now the dam. My cousins had a swimming hole near the bridge with a rope that you could swing out and drop down to swim. I also remember a large sawdust pile not far from the river and it had very large earthworms that we would dig up and use bream fishing.

I have good memories of those old days, but I am also making good memories of being on the lake now. The bottom picture is a screenshot from last Saturday and it amazed me how similar it looks to the original picture I have of the bridge. You can see the creek channel in the picture and in the screenshot, you know where the channel is by all the baitfish hovering over it.

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That is cool!

You should be guiding on this lake, you have a knowledge that others will never have. And we tried the areas you recommended to me and couldn't find any fish down that way, we run out of time and didn't have a lot of time to search. Thanks

That is way cool. The fish finders have such amazing capabilities now-a-days. Interesting to hear some stories from some folks who lived in this area before the water rose.

crappietuttle - when were you out there?

One more for old times sake: this is my parents, along with my aunt Betty. Pop was in the Army and this was probably a weekend back home. They caught these crappie on the Haw River, very close to where the dam is on Jordan. Pop is 81 and still catching crappie in the same area.

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awesome pics and story! thanks for sharing.

I guarantee you he is still catching crappie. I've seen him put it on everyone more than once!

You should be guiding on this lake!!! OOPS Crappie Tuttle beat me to it.
What cool historical knowledge of one of NCs more popular fishing spots.

Very interesting story and pics. Thanks for sharing