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Carters: Level: 11.4 feet below full. Temp: Mid 50s. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Good. Bass have already gone deep, and some catches have been coming out of 60 feet of water on spoons. “The fishing has been good,” said Buddy Callahan at Bart’s Bait & Tackle. “It took 16 pounds to win over there Saturday.”…
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: Mid 50s. Clarity: Clear. Guide Wes Carlton said, “December is the month on this lake.” He said to always keep a rod with either a white fluke or a Heddon Torpedo in blue or silver tied on. If you see schooling activity, these baits are likely to catch you hybrids,…
Blue Ridge: Level: 17.5 feet below full pool. Temp: High 40s to low 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Nathan Lewis said the smallmouths are on main-lake points in 15 to 18 feet of water, and they are biting a 1/4-oz. tube jig in either brown or green pumpkin. “Anything that imitates a crawdad,” he said.…
Blackshear: Level: Down 3.7 feet. Temp: 51-53 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Clint Brownlee said the primary pattern right now and through the winter months, especially with the lake down, is to find the deeper docks at the mouths of pockets and sloughs. “You can get bit with crankbaits or split-shot, green-pumpkin Trick Worms. Those…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good for numbers. Dennis Hudson has won two of the four pot tournaments he’s held on Bartletts since they switched from Tuesday evening to Saturday with the time change. The average sack is weighing about 7 to 9 pounds right now,…
Allatoona: Level: 12.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 52-53 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Excellent. Matt Driver said they’re catching terrific numbers of spotted bass, and the quality is getting better as it gets colder. For lots of bites, fish a drop-shot rig on rocky secondary points. Matt recommends a No. 6 or No. 4 Gamakatsu…
It’s painful to see a giant buck KOed by a bumper, but giant antlers are always worth talking about. Just before midnight on Nov. 4, a Clay County buck that grossed several inches more than the 170-inch Boone & Crockett minimum was hit by a vehicle in the George Bagby State Park area. The main-frame…
On Nov. 16, Dave Adams of Newnan was deer hunting with a muzzleloader on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property along West Point Lake when he shot and killed a male cougar that weighed 140 pounds. The property was south of Hwy 109 near the Abbottsford community west of LaGrange. According to DNR, the cat…
Rick Burns of Madison and Jacob Wills of Loganville took it to a field of 21 jonboat teams, claiming their first championship victory at the Oct. 11 “Bcrods.com J-BAIT” tournament at Lake Varner. Their winning stringer weighed 18-lbs., 9-ozs. “It felt like winning the Bassmaster Classic,” said Rick. “We had five good fish by 10…
Governor Sonny Perdue today announced that Chris Clark, Executive Director of the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority (GEFA), is his recommended choice to succeed Noel Holcomb as Commissioner of DNR when Holcomb retires in April 2009. Commissioner Holcomb announced to the Board of Natural Resources his retirement plans at the September meeting of the DNR Board.…
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