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Hunting
It began, like many hunts for a giant buck these days, with a trail-camera photo. The camera was put out by Hawkinsville’s Blake Smith, 39, on one of his two Pulaski County farms. On August 19, Blake got a photo of a wide, impressive buck, and when deer season started, his hunt began. “I couldn’t…
Silas McPhee was dead. He just knew that was going to be the outcome of being trapped in his truck with the rattlesnake. Petrified with fear, he sat bolt upright in the truck seat, afraid to move even to take a breath, but he was certain the drumming of his heart alone would surely trigger…
Nottely: Level: 22 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The water’s hot, and the fish are inactive for the most part. Deep and slow with a Texas-rigged green-pumpkin worm in brush in the 20- to 25-foot range is the most productive late-summer pattern. A drop-shot rig or shaky head worked…
Oconee: Level: Down 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 86-90 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear, except for a light stain up the rivers. Bass: Right now the bass are still hard on summer patterns, and it’s generally been slow. Try main-lake points and humps that have brushpiles, and fish them with Carolina-rigged Trick Worms in green…
Russell: Level: Down 0.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 88 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The daytime bite is painful — it’s even tough to catch a bass on the bridge pilings right now. You can catch a few fish bass on crankbaits on the humps, or head down the lake and try to catch…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Jack McGowan of Miss Judy Charters said the fishing has been good despite hot, humid days and pop-up thunderstorms that have muddied the water. Lots of small summer trout about 12 inches in length are showing on the sandbars. Capt. Judy Helmey also reports good action the past weekend (August 25) near…
Seminole: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: High 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. The summer pattern continues, said Steve Holt. Frogs fished on hydrilla mats or buzzbaits or Pop-Rs fished around deep grass points early in the morning can produce topwater bites. Once the morning bite ends, standing timber in 16 feet of water…
Sinclair: Level: 1.4 feet below full. Temp: 89 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, said tournament fisherman Jim Windham. He took second in a recent Berry’s tournament on Sinclair fishing ledges in 15-23 feet of water. He also took the big fish, which weighed a little better than 7 pounds. Jim said most of his bites…
Weiss: Level: 6.4 feet below full. Temp: 90 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Larry at J.R.’s Marina said the lake is at winter pool already, but the lake level is expected to continue to drop — possibly going down 4 more feet if there are no significant rains. The bass fishing continues to be fair…
West Point: Level: Down 8.8 feet below full pool with a boating advisory. Temp: Upper 80s. Clarity: Clear. Largemouth: Good, said guide Paul Parsons. “Fish roadbeds, humps and shoal markers 10 to 20 feet deep with DD22s or big worms like a Zoom Ol Monster in green pumpkin or watermelon seed,” Paul said. “Fishing has…
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