The Jordan fish kill was about eight years ago and caused by a severe November cold snap. Shad die when water gets into the low 40's. Many were caught in the shallows and did not survive. With the major food source greatly reduced, all of the predator fish suffered. Thankfully, shad and crappie are prolific reproducers and it only took a couple of years to get back to normal.
As for night fishing, I think there are a number of folks like me. I used to night fish a lot, but now that I have figured out how to catch them during the day, I sleep at night. Besides, I hated those bug's.
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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.
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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.
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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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Stripers are (no doubt) huge fun on light tackle. It used to be fairly common to catch three or four a trip while crappie fishing the colder months at Jordan. I look forward to gettin' in 'em like that again sometime soon if things keep lookin' up for the striper fishery at Jordan. I was actually quite surprised not to have caught a single striper while throwing various deep diving crankbaits and underspins in the open water for largemouth this year... but it just never happened.
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