Lake Jodie is a reservoir in San Bernardino County, California and covers about 26.4 acres, reaches about 29.5 feet at its deepest point and holds roughly 335.3 acre-feet.
Lake Jodie can be broken down in a few passes: shallow cover, the first break, and the deepest useful water.
Fish and Baits
Fish listed for Lake Jodie include Black Crappie, Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, Green Sunfish, Largemouth Bass, and Redear Sunfish.
While looking for black crappie on Lake Jodie, fish a small jig or minnow around wood, weeds, and sharp little drops.
One direct bluegill tactic on Lake Jodie is to use a small jig, worm, or tiny plastic around green weeds and protected pockets.
Start the largemouth bass search on Lake Jodie by trying to work a soft plastic, jig, or spinnerbait around weeds and protected cover.
To begin with channel catfish on Lake Jodie, fish cut bait or a nightcrawler on the bottom along a channel edge or warm flat.
Other targets listed here include Common Carp; give each one its own bait and depth instead of trying to catch everything with the same rig; fish one point at two depths, then fish the edge from top to bottom.
How to Read the Water
Make one shallow pass and one deeper pass on the same shoreline; that shows whether fish are tight to cover or using the first break; cast across the break instead of along it, then make the next cast parallel to the edge.
Season by Season
Shallow water is worth a careful look in spring and again during fall; bright summer days favor shade, weeds, or deeper breaks; under ice, a small depth change can be more useful than a long move; check the clean side of wind, then keep line light around small clear-water fish.
A Simple Tackle Plan
A medium spinning rod, 8-pound line, a small box of jigs, a few crankbaits, and a simple bottom rig cover most situations; change depth or speed before changing every piece of tackle; fish a small bottom change, then repeat the first clean pattern.
Record the wind, water color, depth of the first bite, and cover after a bite; those four notes are more useful on the next trip than a long list of spots that did not produce; begin over firm bottom, then check both sides of the point.
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