Thread: Jordan 11/24

Originally Posted by Mbsbeek

Yes what caused kill off ?
I know back in late 80's Ebenezer bridge was like a city full of lights at night. Strippers and crappie.

I’ve read from time to time about guys running into strippers on the lake, closest I’ve came was once down on santee we had some show up at the weighin, lol

Originally Posted by SEA DANCER

You have to know your fish in Jordan now that the ncwrc stocked white bass 4 years ago. I caught my first one 2yrs ago and had the pleasure of having a state biologist ID the fish. Her job that day was to check traps they had set to catch white bass and record their progress. She said that they are doing very well in Jordan. What a job to have! I would say it ranks second only to retirement.

White bass have been in that lake since they closed the gates on the dam. Back in the 80s I used to fish for white bass and hybrids on the Haw in the spring when the hybrids were still in the lake. Stopped stocking as a fair number were going through the dam and with efforts to rebuild striped bass in the Cape Fear didn't wanted the steriles to be mixing in shooting blanks. A lot of striped bass died a few years ago in the summer heat. WRC has been working to rebuild there numbers. White bass numbers dropped over the years. hopefully the increased size limits will allow them the opp to spawn before being harvested.

I lived in Chapel Hill When they started showing different maps for Jordan and talking about what it would be used for and what kind of fish would be in it. Most of the biologist were saying that it would not support stripers in summers with prolonged dry and hot temps. They stocked them anyway and every now and then I would catch one.

It never really made any sense to me that Jordan could be any different than many of the more southerly reservoirs that seem to have no problem supporting top-notch striper fisheries. Even if they don't come right out and say it... I believe the striper fishery at Jordan is floundering due to the fact that Jordan is a relatively shallow impoundment compared to so many others. Shallow water warms too much in the hot summers + cannot disperse the amounts of spring and summer nitrogen (fertilizer) that runs off the land from the surrounding farming communities + other pollutants upstream = lower oxygen levels in extremely hot and dry periods and striper die-offs.

Man if we had only had GPS when it was a big cleared field before filling to mark some of the small features that would hold fish. The shallowness and associated temps is what was thought would hamper the striped bass but for a while it sure didn't hold the fish back. Hopefully they'll come back around.

I bass fished Jordan back in the early 80s with a guy that had road the hole lake using one of the old paper graphs


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I caught a 19” striper last Friday under 64 bridge first thing in the morning right off bottom in 24ft on Minnow good fight on 12’ rod. Only the second one I have caught in the lake in all the years I have fished it.


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