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Clarks Hill: Level: 10.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 58-60 degrees. Clarity: Clear on the lower end and dingy in the upper areas. Bass: Bill Crompton said the bass are coming out of the deep water to find a place to bed. “Buck bass are all around the banks, cuts and shallow water,” said Bill.…
Carters: Level: 5.9 feet low. Temp: 56-60 degrees. Clarity: Heavy stain up the river. The cleanest area is from Wurley Creek south. Bass: Good. The predominant pattern is a crankbait on shallow, main-lake points. “They are using shad-colored, deep-diving crankbaits and plowing them across the points,” said Buddy Callahan at Bart’s Bait & Tackle. “They…
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: Mid 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, according to Daniel Workman. “You can’t go wrong on any of the mountain lakes with a crankbait, spinnerbait and jerkbait,” said Daniel, who said the next six weeks or so will offer some of the best bass fishing of the year. A jerkbait is…
Blue Ridge: Level: 5.9 feet below full pool. Temp: 50 to 53, a little warmer back in the pockets. Clarity: The main lake is clear, up the river and backs of the creeks are a little dingy. Bass: Good. April is a good time to fish on most of the mountain lakes, said guide Nathan…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Ernie Broughton, who runs the Blackshear Buddies tournament trail on the lake, broke the lake record for a five-fish tournament catch in his tournament March 1. Ernie had five fish that weighed 23.14 pounds including an 8.2-lb. and a 7.14-lb. bass. He caught all the…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: Full pool. Temp: 58-60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. “The fish have definitely moved up on the banks now,” said Dennis Hudson, whose Tuesday-evening tournaments started March 18 with the time change. Spinnerbaits, Texas rigs and the occasional jig bite led to five-fish sacks in the 12- to 14-lb. range the last…
Allatoona: Level: 1.7 feet below full pool and rising. Temp: 53-58 degrees. Clarity: The upper end of the lake from Victoria toward Little River is stained. Bass: Good. “I’m starting to see a stronger and stronger jerkbait and swimbait bite on the main lake,” said guide Mike Bucca. “I’m using a Staysee 90 and a…
The white bass population has declined rapidly at Lake Blue Ridge since the illegal introduction of blueback herring, but there are still a few left in the lake. A decade ago, there were some trophy white bass in Blue Ridge, including the largest ever recorded from Blue Ridge that was caught in 2008. Jesse Mckeral,…
A Bandit 200 and a 1/2-oz. Rat-L-Trap fished in dirty water in Georgia’s Little River was exactly how Tony Green became this year’s Georgia Bass Chapter Federation (GBCF) Top-Six state champion. Tony weighed in 30.40 pounds of Clarks Hill bass for the March 10-11 tournament, where the top-six anglers from 73 GBCF-affiliated bass clubs converged…
The GONetwork and the Henry County Water and Sewerage Authority (HCWSA) hosted the third-annual Kids Duck Box Building Day on Feb. 16. The event, held at HCWSA’s Cubihatcha Outdoor Center in Locust Grove, attracted about 75 people, including 31 kids. The project, which began as an effort to simply get kids involved in an outdoor-related…
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