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Fishing Reports
Inshore: The trout fishing has already started to pick up, and folks are catching them on the traditonal float-cork rig with shrimp. The trout fishing should get better and better with each warm, stable day this month, according to Capt. Greg Hildreth. Also, sight fishing for reds with artificials like soft jerkbaits is going on…
Seminole: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: Chattahoochee and Flint are stained, Spring Creek is stained in places. Bass: Butch Tucker says the main spawn is about over for the bass, but some fish will still be moving up around the new moon. “All in all, the bass fishing has been very good,” Butch…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: Full pool. Temp: Upper 50s, but it won’t take long to get back into the 60s. Clarity: Clear to light stain. Bass: “It’s hard to go wrong with a crankbait this time of year,” said Royce Railey. Royce likes to throw plugs everywhere, and he’ll start about halfway back in creeks on…
Sinclair: Level: Six inches below full pool. Temp: Low to mid 50s. Upper 50s around the Georgia Power plant. Clarity: Stained mid lake, clear by the dam. Bass: Mike Cleveland says in April it is best to concentrate your fishing efforts near spawning areas. “That’s where I am going to fish,” Mike said. Mike’s three…
Weiss: Level: 1.5 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 50s. Clarity: Yellow Creek and Little River are clear. The Coosa is dingy. Bass: Good. Two March tournaments on the lake were won with five-bass catches that weighed 25 pounds and 27 pounds. Small crankbaits on the banks have been the predominant pattern, according to J.R.…
West Point: Level: 3.0 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: The Chattahoochee River is muddy, the main lake has a light stain, and some of the creeks have a significant stain. Bass: Guide Paul Parsons said the full moon should get the bass on the bed at West Point. Paul won the West…
Mark Massey and Steven Phillips are both one win away from a guaranteed check for $1,000. Both anglers won their first-round matches in The Eliminator Series and look forward to round two, which will take place in the early fall. The Eliminator Series is GON’s head-to-head elimination bass tournament where the winner takes home $2,500…
Our Sinclair match-up will face two red-hot tournament guys against each other. Jim Beavers of Manchester enters The Eliminator Series following a top-20 finish at the Stren Series event at West Point in February. He’s confident at Sinclair. “I fished there for 25 years,” said Jim. “In early March, if those fish will move up,…
Paradise PFA: Level: Most lakes have dropped six to 12 inches below full pool. Temp: 75 degrees. Clarity: Lightly stained. Visibility in Lake Patrick is 24 inches. Bass: Fair. Bass in the 3-lb. range have been caught in Patrick and Horseshoe 3 using Texas-rigged plastic worms and spinnerbaits fishing just off the edge of the…
Project WINGS recently made a change that will put more money in your wallet, at least if you plan to sign up for the program this summer. Incentive payments for planting food plots in transmission and gas line right of ways has been increased. Participants will now receive $50 per acre, per year, per utility.…
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