# Roanoke in Jamesville. **URL:** \ **Category:** North Carolina General\ **Created:** [May 21, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446 "2020-05-21T16:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gdn443](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@gdn443](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/gdn443)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/1 "2020-05-21T16:04:28Z")
Got a chance to hit the back swamps of this area. But the high water and wind sent me home early. You just can’t find bass when their in the shallows above the bank. Weather here this spring has been crazy. If it’s not cold and windy then it’s raining. Memorial day in a few with temps in the 80’s like it should be. I’m going to try the Chowan River next time out. Praise God we sold that house in 4 days. Now it’s fishing time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gdn443](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/34f0e0/32.png) [@gdn443](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/gdn443)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/3 "2020-07-30T18:27:28Z")
The heat slowed down a bit today, so I hit the swamp in Jamesville. Water temp was 85. I found some shade and few small bass on the drop offs. Black creature bait worked again. I swear they must breed those yellow flys down in that town. Off the water by 12 as it got into 90 degrees and humid. Come on Sept!! * * * > [@wiperhunter2](#): > > _“gdn443, post:1, topic:319446” wrote:_ > > Got a chance to hit the back swamps of this area. But the high water and wind sent me home early. You just can’t find bass when their in the shallows above the bank. Weather here this spring has been crazy. If it’s not cold and windy then it’s raining. Memorial day in a few with temps in the 80’s like it should be. I’m going to try the Chowan River next time out. Praise God we sold that house in 4 days. Now it’s fishing time. 🙂 > > Thanks for the report Gregg, sounds like the weather we have been having around here lately. Good luck on your next outing on the Chowan. Congrats on selling your house, is it the same one that you built you chicken condo at? > > No the condo is at the new house. Getting 8-10 eggs a day now out of the 12 girls. My butternut squash got nailed bad with vine borer’s. But hopefully the sweet pumpkin will make up the difference. Second crop of beans are planted. Next week I’ll do rudabackers as well. Cherokee red tomatoes were a waste. All split and broke open before 100 percent ripe. Live and learn. ---
**Author:** ![SkunkedAgain](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forum.bigfishtackle.com/skunkedagain/32/53758_2.png) [@SkunkedAgain](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/SkunkedAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/4 "2022-01-13T13:40:57Z")
Thanks that was interesting… Later J ---
**Author:** ![RockyRaab2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@RockyRaab2](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/RockyRaab2)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/5 "2022-01-13T15:56:31Z")
Very instructive. The number of times fish mouth and reject a bait undetected was eyebrow-raising. ---
**Author:** ![Springbuck1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@Springbuck1](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Springbuck1)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/6 "2022-01-13T18:03:47Z")
> [@RockyRaab2](#): > > Very instructive. The number of times fish mouth and reject a bait undetected was eyebrow-raising. > > Watching underwater camera footage on YouTube  15 years ago, basically taught me how to ice-fish.  I think it’s really valuable. > > It taught me exactly how dumb and befuddled cold-blooded creatures’ brains can be, watching them bump into stuff, miss it, knock it around with their noses and miss it repeatedly. > > Taught me exactly what a ‘hit’ looks like and why bite detection is a whole nuther level through the ice.  That thing where they come up, sip it in and don’t move?  Turned out I was setting the hook a lot probably when they spit it out! > > It demo’d for me how truly stupid most lures and jigging techniques look, just going “boing, boing, boing”, and how attracted they are to movement, then suspicious of unnnatural movement. > > How competitive they are, once they commit, and how they all gather round and stare at your jig, daring eachother to bite it, then dogpile it once one does.  I remember watching six or seven perch staring down a jig/worm combo, then when one finally tries a taste, suddenly all the others want to fight him for it. > > It’s all very interesting. > > * * * > > The one thing on the video, was he starts out saying that finding them is paramount, then doesn’t tell us how, just to look and move! > > That’s always the hardest part! You can’t catch fish where they aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![RockyRaab2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@RockyRaab2](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/RockyRaab2)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/7 "2022-01-13T21:19:06Z")
That’s because he doesn’t know how to find them, either. I doubt anybody does. ---
**Author:** ![fishnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@fishnate](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/fishnate)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/8 "2022-01-13T23:09:31Z")
Perch hang out on flats in winter, at least I’ve never found them elsewhere. A flat isn’t necessarily perfectly horizontal, but it can’t have much slope. In Utah, perch are typically found on flats from 20’ to 60’, sometimes deeper. The obvious exceptions are Mantua, Willard and Utah Lake where they dont have access to those depths. The tough part is finding exactly where on the flat the perch might be because perch roam a lot. If you can find some structure like a weed edge, scattered rock, a shrub or a sudden depth change odds are those areas will attract perch at some point during the day because those spots produce insects, crayfish and minnows. Hope that helps some. ---
**Author:** ![BSF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BSF](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/BSF)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/roanoke-in-jamesville/319446/9 "2022-01-13T04:03:56Z")
I thought that this was an interesting video on YouTube. Hope the link works. Enjoy [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/bigfishtackle/original/3X/e/6/e60f6b28c99c4bffbb8842c9d84dbfa4a32c899e.jpeg "Perch Fishing For Dummies - Winter Edition") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYrEwhhDKDw)