Jordan Lake this year

What a mess this winter has been. Normally we are up there and fishing by mid December, but with the flooding in December my first trip was on February 5th. Of course we hit some Badin Stripers and some Blewett Falls cats to fill in the time. Called a few friends that couldn't go and since Zach is working full time and the girls had clogging I was stuck fishing by myself. Started off at the 64 bridge like normal and caught 6 fish with 1 being a keeper and none of them in the normal areas I catch them in. Moved around for about an hour to catch those so I took off to a different area of the lake I've never fished before. I got that Lowrance HDS7 with sidescan and put it to good use. Ended up marking some fish and caught 62 for the day to get my 20th keeper. Dumped the rest of the bait and headed home.

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The next time I could get out was on February 10th. Again the situation had me going by myself, and again I started off at the 64 bridge, and again I caught 6 fish with 1 being a keeper, and again it took about an hour to do that, and again I took off to where I caught them before, and again I caught some there. Caught 47 to get my 20th keeper this day. Dumped the bait and headed home to get these cleaned up and put away before heading to church.

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I went out this past Saturday, February 20th with Zachary and Maggie Mae with me. I love fishing with my kids! We put in at Seaforth and headed to where I had caught the few I had caught around the 64 bridge. I think we counted 20 boats at the bridge at one time. Surprisingly we caught about 40 there in the area before they kinda shut off. We took off to where I had been catching them the last couple weeks and there was no one around. I was hoping they would still be there, but nothing. Fished in the area for about an hour with no bites. Checked a couple other new areas and nothing. Saw a congregation of boats at Ebeneezer so tried in there. Only picked up about 3 or 4, so we headed back up to our little spot on 64 and ended up catching around 40 more giving us a total for the day of 87 with 26 keepers. Ended up running out of bait, and Maggie caught her biggest of the day, just over 12", off of a dead and dried up minnow she found in the bottom of the boat. She was thrilled!! LOL Lots of boats on the water which I was expecting with the Bigeye tourney going on. Most I have seen in a while.

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This year has pretty unusual for us. Normally we get to the lake about sunup, but this year all three times I've gotten to Seaforth about 8ish and left around 3. We usually have a lot of keepers just over 10", but this year most of our keepers have been in that 11-12" range with several pushing 13". The first two trips we only caught 1 or 2 really short fish, but Saturday I think Maggie caught 10 or more that were under 6" and some pushing 4". LOL We usually hit 100 on the clicker every time we fish down there, but I also usually have 3-5 people on the boat instead of being solo. Hopefully this weather settle down and the spring will be a good one.
Mike

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Good fishing,reports, and photos.

Rick

Good fishing mike .You have a lot of fish to filet there. I miss fishing at lake jordan a lot . Hope one day I will be back. Good fishing.Andy

What an inspirational report.

Wow, I am so jealous! what an amazing report, thanks!

Good job, Mike. Electronics help for sure.

you got some fat fish there

Yea I was the guy in the grey triton with my son,we had been in that area for about 2 hrs circling and had caught about 30 before you came and took it over and finished them off,but you definitely wore them out caught way more than us in less time maybe I should have anchored down instead of trolled.

Yeah, slowing down in the winter time has always produced better results for us. Once they move shallow in the spring we start longline trolling for them in shallower water. I sure wish this weather would settle down to make the fishing a little easier.
Mike

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I am sure you are a great guy and very respectable and it is obvious you are a good fisherman ,but you set down right on top of me Saturday and I know you wanted to catch fish, but man that is uncalled for, and yes I was trolling around but I was making a small circle over YOUR LITTLE spot and only caught one fish when you shut it down right on me, I didn't say anything to you out of respect for your passengers, but that was prick thing to do.I wish you the best and hope you have good spring fishing.

Well I'm sorry if I did that to you. Anyone that knows me knows that I didn't do it on purpose. I put my boat in an area that had no boats in it. If I recall there was a pontoon boat on my right when I pulled up and y'all were behind them closer to the bridge. I wish you would have said something I would gladly have moved somewhere else and caught fish there. Again, sorry.
Mike

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Well the way I see it there is enough places for us all to fish and you had know idea that I was making that little loop and had been for a few hours but I guess I am a little glad you came in there like that I did learn a lot by watching you.

Oh I forgot to tell you it is mine and your little spot now. Haha

LOL, no problem.
Mike

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Way to go mike!

Thanks hpc, y'all hitting Oak Hollow any?
Mike

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