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Carters: Level: Full pool. Temp: 55-60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Great. “The prespawn is on — anything goes,” said Buddy Callahan at Bart’s Bait & Tackle. “In April watch for schooling to start. In the first half throw slow topwater lures, like a Pop-R. You can cast bucktails and Rooster Tails. As the schooling picks…
Burton: Level: 2.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 58-60 degrees, low 60s back in the pockets in the afternoon. Clarity: Clear. Bass: It has been taking more than 20-lb. bags to win March tournaments at Burton. Daniel Workman said staging bass have moved up on the points and are willing to hit nearly anything. “I…
Blue Ridge: Level: 9 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Jessie Rodgers was on Blue Ridge March 24 and caught a 3 1/2-lb. largemouth and four smallmouths in the 13-inch range. Jessie said they fished tubes, crankbaits and worms, but the fish didn’t want the tubes or crankbaits. “Usually,…
Blackshear: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 60s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Excellent. The bass are dead on the bed and on nearly every shallow tree, said Scott Holland. “You can’t go wrong fishing the trees,” he said. “They are wearing them out fishing shallow trees — trees with less than a foot of…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1 foot above full pool. Temp: 56-62 degrees. Clarity: Clear to light stain. Bass: Good. Royce Railey said the bass should be spawning this month. He suggested targeting bedded fish in the backs of the creeks. “I like to cover a lot of water with a little, shallow-running crankbait if the water’s…
Allatoona: Level: Down 5.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 58-63 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Very good as water temperatures have risen quickly. “It looks like the next full moon (April 2) will be our first big wave of spawning largemouth in the shallows, and about two weeks after that our spots will start to spawn,”…
Opposition by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to a specialty license plate that would raise money for SEEDS, a program that promotes hunting and fishing to kids, resulted in the SEEDS fundraiser being cut. Volunteers who have been organizing kids hunts and youth conservation work days through the SEEDS program expressed shock. GON is…
Jason Harrison, of Calhoun, was on the Oostanaula River March 11, 2007 with his brother David, who already held three river records prior to the trip. Jason was fishing cut bait and caught his own record fish, a 37-lb., 3-oz. flathead catfish. This fish was weighed, identified, and then returned to the river near where…
If you pay attention to the information an uncooperative gobbler provides you each morning, you may be able to turn the tables on the tom during an afternoon hunt. The wind was blowing fairly hard when I got out of my vehicle at approximately 4 p.m. for a late-afternoon turkey hunt. I checked my equipment,…
The anti-hunting effort is alive and well and living in Georgia. As we have reported several times recently in GON, the rampant anti-hunting organization The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is trying to stop all hunting on Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and 36 other recently acquired refuges across the country. Their weapon…
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