Quote Originally Posted by stripernut1 View Post
folks i sure do hope this doesnt come off as being argumentative, not my intent. but for those who think the water temps are too warm for jumps??? keep in mind there were huge schools staying up for 5 minutes each time they came up.....IN JULY.

i wish i had an explanation why there arent any fishable jumps, i dont have any idea, but i can assure you it doesnt have any thing to do with the warm weather or the surface temps.

there are tons of bait on the surface, and normally where there is bait there are fish. but they just arent coming up.

ive fished 4 of the last 5 days and havent seen one event that i would qualify as a "jump"
Agreed and here is my take on it and it will be met with people getting flustered or laughing at me.

I think the fish are adapting to boat and human pressure. I saw a jump in creek X two weeks ago that was every bit of 60 to 80 fish in it. It was one of the largest jumps I have seen in the last three years. I was 200 yards away and I started the big motor and started, ''EASING'' that way. Well I closed it to about 100 yards and they went down and I was just getting ready to stop the big motor. Well a week later it happened again on a smaller jump in almost the exact same fashion. Now maybe I'm giving the Striped rascals way too much credit but maybe I'm not. BTW I saw this happen a lot last year as well.

Pressure any creature enough and they eventually start adapting to that pressure and do things differently. I have hunted and fished all my life and have seen this with many of God's furry and scaly creations.


They hear that big motor coming from a great distance and associate it with humans and boats. Laugh at me all you want if anybody has a better theory I'm listening...