The most common sport fish found in Lake Jordan include the Alabama spotted bass, largemouth bass, hybrid striped bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, and black and white crappie. Popular non-game fish include channel catfish, blue catfish, and flathead catfish. Primary forage species include both threadfin shad and gizzard shad. Overall, the status of the fish population in Lake Jordan remains unchanged from the 1980s.
Like many other fertile impoundments, the potential of this fishery is limited by poor early life survival and high mortality of fish during their first winter. However, growth of important sport fish species such as black bass and crappie exceed the statewide average. Largemouth and spotted bass are similar in abundance, and their recruitment is fairly stable. However, like other Coosa River impoundments, crappie recrutment is highly variable.
Most anglers are very satisfied with the bass fishing on Lake Jordan because it has remained very consistent during the last 20 years. Based on overall quality of bass fishing, Jordan Reservoir ranked 6th of 20 reservoirs that had 5 or more tournaments. Jordan also ranked 2nd for average pounds of bass caught per day and 4th for average weight of bass caught. These reports also suggest that total bass catch rates have increased in the last few years.
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