Jordan 11/24

Had a great morning at Jordan while they were biting and I mean everything was biting. Started out this morning with white bass hitting my jigs and minnows, then white perch and then catfish. Crappie were mingled in with all the other species. Overall, I managed 40 fish by noon with about 25 of those being crappie. I brought home 11 crappie between 11 and 13 inches this morning. Water temp had dropped since last to around 57 degrees. Caught the crappie from 15 to 20 feet deep in 20 to 32 feet of water. They were hitting jigs and minnows.Attachment 389375


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Special K did you fish today?


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Great day for sure

good job !

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Special K did you fish today?


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Sadly, it did not work out for me gettin' out today. I'm hoping to regroup tomorrow.

Thanks all


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Great report. Bring some of those white bass and crappie down to Wylie and restock our lake! :biggrin

There was plenty of those white bass to share. The bad thing is every one came up about inch shy of keeping.


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Where they bass or perch ?

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.

Very true Sea Dancer. With so many white perch mixed in it would very easy to keep a white bass thinking it was a perch. All of the white bass I caught were around 13 inches and just shy of the 14 inch minimum and look very similar to the white perch.


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Where they bass or perch ?

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I caught a mixture of both white bass and white perch. I got skunked on the brim that day. LOL!


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When fishing Jordan Lake many years ago... I struggled mightily learning the subtle differences between white perch, white bass, hybrid bass, and stripers during various phases of their respective growing cycles or (ages).
I guess the hybrids have pretty much died out... because I don't recall catching any for (probably) about 10 or 12 years. How about anyone else. Has anyone caught any hybrid bass on Jordan??? Have any been restocked???

I caught six about the end of Sept. They were busting shad early in the morning and I caught them on a topwater bass plug. They were all about 15" and I was sure they were stripers. I have not seen a hybrids in many years in Jordan. After the big die-off several years ago the wildlife said they would not stock stripers in jordan again but I heard that they did a couple yrs ago.. They seem to be a little tight lipped about what they do. Kinda like some fishermen I know. LOL

Let's hope they're in the water.��

How does one , control ( engineers an scientist , are 2 different groups rite) And what happened to fish introduced yrs. ago.? Just asking was gone 12 yrs.

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How does one , control ( engineers an scientist , are 2 different groups rite) And what happened to fish introduced yrs. ago.? Just asking was gone 12 yrs.

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Jordan went through a fish kill probably while you were gone. It became a dead zone and everyone stopped fishing it. That caused Harris to be overfished and it got bad but by that time Jordan had bounced back with the help of stocking lots of baitfish and many game fish. Both lakes are in good shape right now. I really like the limits that were imposed on Jordan. Lots of things can happen in 12 years.. Welcome back.

What caused the fish kill? Any links to where I can learn more? Thanks

Thanks,
I've had a really hard time at Harris for crappie and bass, 8-10 trips this yr. Had been able to mark lots of bait fish and can't get em to bite.
Jordan is a whole different story, have done well their.

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.

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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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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.