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Level: 6.3 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 70s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. There’s a brief topwater bite early, then move to deep brush with worms or jigs. The spots are schooling early and late on main-lake points and humps in the mid-lake area. Sammys, Spooks and Pop-Rs will work. Once the sun comes up,…
Level: 10 feet low and falling. Temp: 82 degres. Clarity: Green stain. Bass: Fair. Fishing guide Louie Bartenfield said the morning topwater bite is dead until the end of Septemeber. Louie suggests starting out with a small, medium-running crankbait on main-lake points. He likes the chartreuse-shad Bandit 200. He said the bite is pretty slow,…
Level: Full pool. Temp: 80 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. WRD Fisheries Biologist Anthony Rabern said the spotted bass in Burton are gorging on young-of-the-year blueback herring in the 3/4-inch length range. Topwater early and late with Sammys, Spooks, flukes and Pop-Rs are good choices. When the fish go down, hit the same areas with…
Level: 13.1 feet below full pool. Temp: High 70 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Blue Ridge guide Nathan Lewis said he has been doing well on smallmouths and spots using three different patterns: tube jigs, topwater and flukes. He has been catching bass on main-lake points and rocky banks with stumps by shaking a tube…
Level: Full pool. Temp: Upper 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The water is hot, and the fish are lethargic. Scott Holland says your best bet is to head up the river and look for current and shade. “If you get up around Campers Haven, there are a lot of backwater sloughs that are like fishing…
Level: 1.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 84 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow, said Dennis Hudson. “When you have 25 to 30 boats every week and only half a dozen guys weighing in, and they’re bringing in less than 8 pounds each, you’re not exactly tearing them up,” he said in reference to his Tuesday…
Level: Down 4.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 83 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair, and improving. “The schooling fish are up, but only come up for a few brief seconds,” said guide Mike Bucca. “The deep bite is still the most consistent.” Small baits are the key to the schooling bass. “Lucky Craft’s G Splash…
It was the last day of the 2005-06 hunting season. I had all but given up on seeing a giant buck that I hunted for two seasons. That morning, my hunt was uneventful. I hadn’t seen a single deer, which really isn’t so unusual for this small patch of woods. The hunting was just hit…
As if on cue, a shrimp burst from the water, turned a somersault, fell back, skipped across the surface, and disappeared in a violent explosion. Too bad for the shrimp — it was carrying a hook and never had chance. A fraction of a second later, the float disappeared behind a bulge of water and…
Game species have an ally when it comes to management of Oconee National Forest. The red-cockaded woodpecker is the reason about 1,500 acres of timber infested with southern pine beetle (SPB) will be cut over the next two years, creating early successional habitat beneficial to all types of wildlife — especially deer, turkey, small game…
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