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Fishing

A Professional Look At Lake Seminole’s Shallow February Bass

Lake Seminole in February can be heaven or it can be tough, but you can bet that at least a few times in February it will be bass fishing heaven. Like early-spring bass fishing everywhere, the weather dictates the activity and movements of the bass at Seminole, which in turn determines what patterns and techniques…

The Lake Russell Reef Marker Staycee Scenario For Magnum Spots

It is time to take Staysee fishing. At Lake Russell. On main-lake points and humps south of the Hwy 72 bridge. According to bass fisherman Brandon Davis of Athens, that’s the formula for some great spotted-bass fishing in April. On March 18, Brandon and I were on the lake to test the theory. We put…

Lake Lanier Summertime Stripers On Downlines With Shane Watson

One of the best sounds of fishing is the sound of line being ripped off a reel by a heavy, hard-fighting fish. It’s a sound that you can expect to hear on a striped-bass fishing trip to Lake Lanier this time of year. When summer weather sets in, the stripers at Lanier stack up in…

West Point Lake Hybrid Run To Franklin

  The green flag has dropped, and the race is on. The hybrids in Lake West Point have just completed their voyage north up the Chattahoochee River to the Franklin Shoals area. West Point hybrids make a yearly run up the river to search out swift current – it’s their attempt to spawn. Although a…

Lake Weiss Spinnerbait Attack For May Bass

“This little pocket coming up looks good,” Charles Redding told me. “We’ll get a good one out of here.” We were way back in Cowan Creek on Lake Weiss, so far back that the clouds of mud stirred up by the trolling motor left a trail that went out of sight behind us. Charles eyed…

Altamaha’s Big Monster Catfish

Two summers ago, Johnny Gordon of Ludowici and his partner, Tommy Bacon, made local papers and the pages of GON with a photo of a 70-lb. flathead catfish that they caught in the Altamaha River near Jesup on a limb line and a live bream. At the time it was one of the heaviest flatheads…

Springtime Crappie On Lake Oconee

You don’t second-guess the word. We had launched the boats at the Sugar Creek ramp, and although my fishing partner knew there were some crappie back in Sugar, the word was there was a good bite up the Apalachee. Apparently, when it comes to crappie fishing, the word carries some weight. And apparently, the word…

May Hybrids On Lakes Oconee And Sinclair

They fight better than they eat… and they eat good! The hybrid bass has become one of the favorite freshwater game fish in Georgia waters. This fish, which is a cross between white and striped bass, is an excellent fighter, pound for pound, and can also provide some good table fare. The Georgia WRD Fisheries…

Patterns To Beat The Fall Turnover

Lanier’s magnum spotted bass bite just fine in November — in fact this month can produce some great fishing for these hard-fighting, eating machines. Some Georgia anglers worry that November is difficult time to fish Lake Lanier. This normally gin-clear body of water takes on an almost coffee-colored hue at times during this late fall…

Lake Russell’s December Crappie And Perch

During the early winter months as water temperatures drop into the low 50s on Georgia reservoirs, large schools of baitfish, like threadfin shad, move off the main lake and into the coves and creeks. This massive migration of bait is followed closely by concentrations of larger fish that move along under the schools and feed…

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