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Fishing Tournaments
David Millsaps moves to the finals of The Eliminator Series — and a guarantee of $1,000 and a shot at the $2,500 first-place prize — after beating Steven Phillips at Lake Lanier on a cloudy, cool day in mid September. The Eliminator Series is GON’s unique heads-up bass fishing tournament where anglers compete one-on-one in…
Summertime, weekend fishing tournaments have been banned from corps facilities on Lake Allatoona, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Meanwhile, a $50 special-use permit fee will be implemented at Allatoona next year, and any tournament held out of a corps facility is required to have 100 percent payback. The special regulations do not…
Marben PFA: Level: Margery Lake is about four inches below full. Bennett Lake remains very low. The boat ramp is not useable for boats that need to be floated off the trailer. Temp: Mid to upper 70s. Clarity: Lightly stained, 18- to 26-inch visibility. Bass: Bass remain active and are moving into shallower water during…
West Point: Level: 4.2 feet low. Temp: 81 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain. Bass: Good. Guide Paul Parsons has been catching a lot of spotted bass in two to eight feet of water on small Carolina rigs. “Green pumpkin Zoom Finesse worm is working best,” said Paul. This month look from main-lake points back to the…
Weiss: Level: 3.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 80 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is clear. Bass: Good. According to Lake Weiss guide Jerry Sims you can catch fish a lot of different ways right now. The topwater bite has been good on Zara Spooks, Boy Howdys and buzzbaits, he said. Use the slower Spook…
Sinclair: Level: 0.9 feet low. Temp: 83-84 degrees. Clarity: Fairly stained. Bass: Good. In October Aaron Batson likes banging dock posts with a chartreuse/blue-backed Bandit 200 crankbait. “It’s a wood thing,” said Aaron. “Fish move back to the secondary points and get on blowdowns and docks.” Look for a grass bite early. Aaron will throw…
Seminole: Level: 0.9 feet low. Temp: 82 degrees. Clarity: The creek is clear, the lake is light stain. Bass: Fair. “The frog bite is starting to pick up,” said Butch Tucker. “It has been tough for the last four weeks. Throw the frog first thing in the morning, and after that it’s a matter of…
Saltwater: Inshore: Good. The creeks are full of nice shrimp right now, so you can catch your own bait if you can throw a cast net. Capt. Greg Hildreth, fishing out of the St. Simons area, prefers artificials for redfish, and he’s getting plenty of action on soft jerkbaits. He’s catching some nice trout on…
Nottely: Level: 8.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 73-74 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. A mid-September tournament on the lake was won with more than 14 pounds. Spinnerbaits or flukes around blowdowns, stumps and shallow brush is a good pattern early in the day. After the sun comes up back off to brush in the…
Oconee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 77-78 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear; light stain in some creeks. Bass: Fair. If you’ll chunk and wind first thing in the morning, you might call up a 4-lb. largemouth on top — but the topwater isn’t producing numbers yet. Try a Pop-R or a Spittin’ Image along rock and wood…
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