2nd Annual JORDAN LAKE “Top Shelf” Fishin’ Festival---Friday – September 30, 2016

Please note---PONTOONS AND PORTA POTTIES NEEDED!!!!

Two or three pontoon boats are needed for the Fishin' Festival for our wounded warriors. Some of our vet's sign up and bring a couple of their kids along with their caregiver. They like to crappie fish and pontoons are the best way to handle several folks. Please call the number listed below if you can help. As of a couple of hours ago, nine boats were still needed. Also, two porta potties are needed at the Farrington ramps. There was a local contractor that donated two last year, but he is no longer in business. If you have any contacts, please let Terry know.

One other thing needed is "door prizes" to give each person as they go home from the event. If you know someone that would like to donate, it would be appreciated. Obviously any kind of fishing tackle or something similar would be nice. We already have some Harris Teeter gift cards, so maybe you know some businesses that would like to give by sharing gift cards. At one of the events, someone walked in with a grocery bag and handed it to a volunteer. In it were 50 Bass Pro gift cards worth $50 each, so every participant got to go home with one card. Big or small, it is nice for each of the participants to go home with something as a "freebie".

This event was "sold out" several months ago. Terry has had to turn down a lot of our vet's because he wants to keep the number of boats at 50. There are a lot of folks really looking forward to fishing and we want to give them a good time on the water with many memorable moments. Volunteers are still needed to register people in the morning, help with parking and just help where needed.


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Really hate I can't make this!!

I'm already on the list or I'd volunteer

Come on guys step up and take a vet fishing guarantee a good day for both of you

I would love to do this and have a pontoon but still don't have a lot of experience crappie fishing still learning would hate for the vets not to catch fish

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Originally Posted by Astack24

I would love to do this and have a pontoon but still don't have a lot of experience crappie fishing still learning would hate for the vets not to catch fish

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Just do it.. Someone that can't go unless someone takes them will be happy to just be on the water. I will bet that you will learn something even if it is not about fishing.

Charles and I are going to pre-fish this Saturday. Freddie is also going to help find some fish. We can all share mobile phone numbers and let each person know where we are catching fish. If you can come out this Saturday, we can help you as well.

Astack, go ask for some help fishing Jordan, maybe someone with lake experience will be your mate for the day.
In my experience just getting on the water makes for a great day for these guys and gals.
Bring lots of hooks and weights cause you'll probably get hung up once or twice.
You don't have to be a guide

I signed up to help with my pontoon looking forward to helping out a good cause

I won't be able to fish on the Friday Festival unfornatully this this year because I am going in for repairs the following week and need the PTO for that! But I may be able to join you guys for Saturday prefishing. Where ya putting in at?

Farrington at 7:00. Bring that new boat so we can take a look at it!!!

Any reports?

Monk

I'll let someone more official chime with in weigh in and attendance numbers, but I can speak for the crappie boats that everyone I talked to caught fish and most had at least a few large crappie mixed in. I think the big fish crappie was 1.55 lbs. Several crappie boats caught 30+ fish.

And we pretty much all got soaked at the weigh-in. Sky opened up and straight poured for about 10-15 minutes.

This was the first event I have been able to attend as a host boater, and it was a fantastic experience! Operation North State is the real deal and Terry and communities involved put their whole heart into making the event great for everyone involved.

The thing that amazes me is the helpfulness of everyone involved. Bluegrasmanic saw that we weren't doing well Long lining the colors I had and gave us the colors he was catching them. By gave I mean he came over and gave us a bag of plastics. That's the best part of the event the willingness to help one another.
Thanks again Bluegrasmanic, see you tonight!

You're welcome, scooper! That was teamhooksetters idea to get the jigs to you and I think he picked up a couple things from the door prizes to give to you tonight.


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Like to give a shoutout to everyone who talked to us and gave us tips and a few guys even invited us to dinner Thursday night. This is an awesome group of folks!!


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I want to add my thanks to all the boaters, especially the crappie boaters, that came out and helped for the day. I think all the Veterans that fished on our boats had a good day on the water. Gerry, the former Marine that went with us, told me several times if we do this again next year, he wants to fish with us. I think that's as good a compliment as we can get.

The fishing early was good, but then a small shower came through and it slowed way down. I had good fish on my finder, but could not get them to bite. Several of the guys I talked to said the same thing. For us, it picked back up just before time to end. Several I talked to caught 30 or more with keepers in the upper teens. All of our fish caught on jigs long-ling.

Fished the church tournament on Tillery today and what a difference in lakes. We tried fishing the same way we did on Jordan yesterday and only caught three little ones. Those two lakes are very different and as we are learning, have to be fished differently.