Fishermen who once fished flooded trees on either side of the narrow New Hope Creek channel in Jordan Lake will remember how those spots concentrated largemouths.
Randleman Reservoir in Randolph and Guilford counties also has trees that also serve as fish magnets.
Between 2012 and 2014, technicians from the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority sawed them to topple into the lake and cabled them to their stumps.
Guide Joel Richardson said they’re likely the lake’s major untapped fishing resources, along with artificial fish attractors, and he can’t understand why so many fishermen ignore them.
“Depending on the time of year, you can find bass almost from one end of a tree to the other,” he said.
Fish attractors tree-shaped plastic contraptions that are secured to the bottom. They stand vertically to provide shelter for baitfish and food for gamefish. Christmas trees sunk in reservoirs by crappie fishermen serve the same function.
“I’ve caught a lot of bass and crappies at Randleman’s fish attractors and the laydowns attached to the shore,” Richardson said. “They can be really good places to fish in the spring. In the summer bluegills and crappie are always hanging around them.
“And usually each summer, there’s at least one big ol’ bass at a fish attractor.”
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