Thread: Jordan

Anybody fishing tomorrow


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Sorry late reply, went yesterday just to bass fish, caught 3 dinks up Haw river side , went up new hope side at masons reef nothing, marked a few small bait balls. Was fishing with a guy that just moved here from OK. He's fished Jordan 1 time and needed some one to show him lake. Went up thru s- curve showed him how to go around horseshoe islands, he asked me how's crappie fishing here , I told him great. So going about 30 mph, at mouth of s-curve theirs a guy spider- rigging, stopped and talked to him, he was in a aluminum boat with yammy tiller on back. He said he'd already caught about 20+ and said from there all the way around to new hope ramp fish a stacked, we said thanks for info. Headed around to danger shoal at new hope. Luckily Ed had 4 spinning rods in box, we tied on jigs and started looking bait balls on danger shoal. BOOM there they were in 12-20 fow, now bait was hanging at 8-10 ft. Couldn't get a strike in 20 to 16 fow, moved in a little to 12-14 fow an BOOM there's the strikes, if we got to shallow 10 ft. nada to deep 17-20 nada. CRAPPIE were in a certain zone, some structure here and there didn't matter. We hammered them before rain. About 30+- in 1 1/2 hr. Almost all 10-12 ". Now I know some will criticize me for to much info. But the way I look at it , there's enough crappie in lake for everyone. And for the weekend warrior like me , it's nice to at least have some clue, where fish are. And u aren't scratching your head. IMHO, you spend $$ to go fishing, your at risk of all kinds of possibilities pulling boat to and from lake and on the water. I enjoy the beauty and peace of being on the water, but I also like to catch fish and when I don't, I leave scratching my head for a whole week, what could have I done differently. Then I go back the next weekend with a different fishing plan not knowing what the fish have done, back to square 1. If conditions were as last yr. I'd know , but that's not what happened this yr. so you have to find the pattern for this yr. When I joined this site I thought I'd get some inside info on what fish are actually doing, from guys that fish 2 days a week. I'm the type that will tell, what I've seen and where. Always thought that's being good sportsmanship.
Sorry if I ruffled and feathers. Sorry for rant.
Slow drizzle started at around 2:15 so we packed up for quick run back to Poe's ramp, Ed said 18' foot cobra was fast with 200 mariner '98 yr. �� came down thru. s-curve at 56 mph. Once in open water boat with Jack plate trimmed, 2 in boat livewell full topped out at 74.8 mph.