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Blue Ridge: Level: Down 4.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 72-73 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow unless you are fishing after dark, said fishing guide Nathan Stuart. “You can catch a few fish at daybreak or after dark, but the daytime bite is extremely tough. They are not going to bite unless they have pulled…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: Down 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 71 degrees upriver, 79-80 degrees in the lake. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. Dennis Hudson said the limits in his Tuesday-night pot tournaments are coming in on the light side. The big fish were averaging 3 to 4 pounds late in May, and Dennis said the…
Allatoona: Level: Down 2.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 75 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Fair, and improving. “We had some nasty winds all throughout May which made main-lake fishing for postspawn fish somewhat difficult,” said guide Mike Bucca. “Mini Me spinnerbaits were the hot item as were Pointer 78 jerkbaits and 4-inch blue-pearl Yamamoto…
The passenger in a bass boat that was on plane heading down the Oconee River above Lake Oconee was shot in the arm by an 86-year-old man fishing from the bank. John Burke “Pete” Yearwood of Madison was arrested by Greene County deputies and jailed on an aggravated-assault charge. He was released that day on…
Georgia is blessed to have an estuary system that blankets its entire coastline. From the barrier islands all the way back into the salt marshes, fish and marine life are abundant and are relatively untouched by the masses of fishermen found in other locations. These estuaries, fed by a mix of ocean water and fresh…
For many successful anglers, the difference in their ability to catch fish depends on the little things. For crappie fisherman Jerry Pheil, of Cordele, the little things that help fill his livewell with crappie are minnows. Jerry has lived on the lake since 1970. He has been fishing Blackshear for whatever swims in the lake…
I have lived in Milledgeville all my life and since I was old enough to know what a fish was, I have had a love for the river. I spent many days fishing from the bank of the Oconee River as a youngster. While I was in high school, I saved my pennies and bought…
Spraying water sparkled down each side of the pointed bow of the plywood boat, meticulously built and triple-coated in olive green paint in our backyard, as it cruised up the Ocmulgee River. Just a couple of miles and we’d go by a big island on the right, then swing back around and enter behind it…
Nine times out of 10, when someone reels in a carp in the state of Georgia, the landing is followed by the phrase, “Aw, it’s just a (insert expletive here) dirty ol’ carp.” But, there is a small contingent of anglers in the state who hold this hearty invasive in high esteem. They value the…
Across the state, shellcrackers, bluegills and redbreasts start going on the beds in the spring, and even though the bite will last through the summer, May is the best time of the year to catch bream on the beds in most areas of Georgia. Nobody knows when and where the bream are going to be…
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