Lake Allatoona Fishing Report – November 2022

Allatoona: Level: 6.9 feet below 840. Temp: 66 degrees. Clarity: 6 feet.

Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “November is one of my favorite months to fish on Lake Allatoona. Fish are following bait back into the creeks and are really feeding up this time of year. I love to target big fish this time of year with a hard swimbait like a Sweet Bait or a Triple Trout. While the temperatures are still in the low 60s and high 50s, go shallow and cover a lot of water for a potential trophy-sized bass. November tends to start out cool and mild and finishes a little colder. As we see temperatures go from the low 60s into the high 50s, we will start to see a transition to a winter pattern by the end of the month. Along with a swimbait, November is a great month for fishing with a crankbait. My go-to baits are a lipless crankbait and a square-bill crankbait. Both baits are good to cover water, but the square-bill is great to target large rocks that are still in the water and laydowns and shallow brush. Last but not least, a jerkbait is probably one of the most effective ways to catch numbers of fish this time of year. I tend to catch some really big spotted bass paralleling bluff walls and points with drop-offs to the channel this time of year. The Mega Bass 110 and Strike King Jerkmate in the 200 series are hard to beat. Right now from Iron Hill to Bartow Carver tends to be the hottest area on the lake. The bite is awesome, especially since we saw the bite slow for a while in the month of October. Have fun, and enjoy the lake while traffic is down.”

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Linesides: Guide Robert Eidson, of First Bite Guide Service, reports, “Good. The lake is in its final stages of turning over, and the bite is starting to heat up. Live bait fished on downlines out over open water is still our best bite. As the waters cools, the fish will start to move shallow. When this happens, look for the topwater bite to heat up. Right now both ends of the lake are fishing about the same. As the water cools down, we will start focusing more on the north end. Trolling is good. Captain Mack’s Mini Macks  are working well right now. We are pulling them 90 feet behind the boat at 0.9 mph.”