Some Screenshots from Jordan

I wasn't planning on posting again this week, but found some good fish today and thought would share a few of the screenshots. One thing that Charles and I started two years ago was to fish somewhere different on Jordan every time we go. Obviously, we can't do that during tournament season, but have started it back up again. Yes, it was hot, humid and lots of bothersome boats, but the only way to be a better fisherman is to spend time on the water.

Most of where we fished today was completely new to both of us. We launched at Farrington and thought about White Oak Creek, but once we went up there with the electronics on, decided to go down to the area around the dam. Pretty long run, but ended up worth it. While my wife watched the Olympics last night, I spent about an hour studying the Navionics Web-ap. Even though we fished somewhere new, I wanted to spend plenty of time looking at the topo lines to decide where to fish. The Navionics ap is free, so whether you are fishing from a kayak or million dollar yacht, there is a lot you can do by "pre-fishing" at home.

One reason we chose the area down at the dam is because the lake has been up and down over a foot the past two weeks. The thermocline did not hurt fishing today at all. One thing that Charles and I were pleased about today is we took the "fishing environment" that nature gave us and were able to catch fish. In the crappie tournaments, there are some very good fishermen that we compete against and the one thing the best do consistently is to adapt to the conditions of the day and still catch fish. We are by no means in the same class as many of these fishermen, but we are trying to put in the time and effort to get better every time we go out on the lake.

As you can see in the first three pictures, we found some good fish. Problem was, we could only get a few to bite. Plenty of bait and crappie, but very few bites. We kept changing jig colors and different depths, but not much luck. The first two pictures show we were in a good spot. In the third picture, we did find success on this point. We went back and forth three times across this area and caught several fish.


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It was getting close to lunch and had been a fairly poor day so far. I had studied the topo across the channel and thought it may hold fish. This turned out to be the best thing we did all day. In one 30- minute stretch, we probably were catching a fish a minute. We didn't keep any of the fish, so they all went back in the lake. Also, a lot of them were small with one being what we call a tournament fish and several in the 11"-12" range. With the water temp at 91, air temp in the 90's and plenty of ski boats around, I felt this was one of our best fishing accomplishments this year.

These three screenshots are what every crappie fisherman dreams of seeing on their fishfinder. We didn't catch a single perch--what you are seeing are crappie and some baitfish. If you are fairly new to crappie fishing, try new places like we did. And, guess what? None of these fish were caught on the so-called "Jordan" crappie colors. I'm not going to share what color worked best for us, but it completely shocked us what caught the most fish.


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Out frigging standing !!!!!!!
Thanks for the post JL

GREAT POST AND GREAT PICS

Really nice pic.thanks, really enjoyed them.trying too learn my new sv and dv unit out, this helps.

I do not see a thermocline in any of your shots. I could not find a thermocline on Thursday; however, the fish were all suspended 12-14 ft as if there was a thermocline.

I did see about 8 "Solar Bee" trucks from North Dakota removing the Solar Bee units. Another $1.6 million of our tax payers money wasted. Our legislature will fall for any thing.

Monk

Monk,

I am kinda new to the NC area - what's the solarbee project?

And JordanLimit, thanks for a cool report. I'm gonna check ou the Navionics app you mention.

Monk:

We did run into thermocline primarily in the main lake areas. Most of our searching was to locate creeks with minimum or no thermocline which brings us to a strange situation; check out the second amber down image shot. Light thermocline but still had several large fish painting within the thermocline area. That was odd but we didn't catch any so probably cats (see how good sour grapes work :crazy:)
I've got to pick up more of your Monk's jigs, they are still killin um

Monk--to add to Charles comments, we fished areas very near the Haw River channel. The rains two weeks ago in the Greensboro, Reidsville and Burlington area had the river up and bringing in fresh water to the lake. I would say that by this weekend, this hot weather will have the thermocline in this area the same as in other parts of the lake.

Ekim22--do a search on this website on the Solar Bees. We all knew they would not work and the company is in the process of removing them.

I just googled it and that's a shame that it was wasteful. I can't blame them for trying but common sense says that you need to fix the input to get a different output.

Quite honestly though I came back to say THANK YOU for mentioning the Navionics web app. I live on Belews Lake and have a pontoon boat without a depth sounder so I've been wanting to find a topo map with general depths. I'm shocked at how deep the lake is!

Glad the Navionics web app can be a help to you. I looked up Belews and it doesn't have the 1' topo like a lot of lakes, but at least you have enough topo lines to help. If you look at Jordan or High Rock, you will see they are in 1' increments.

Yeah I was a little disappointed in that, it shows 5' out from shore and then the general depths but that's a LOT more information than I'd had previously and my pontoon boat doesn't have a depth finder on it (yet). I'm not used to lakes that have 100' + water!

Thanks for post and pictures interesting read