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Fishing Reports
Nottely: Level: 14.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 47 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow, according to Ronnie McDonald. “The fish were up shallow a couple of weeks ago, but they have been pulling water and the fish have moved off the banks,” he said. A bass tournament in mid December was won with 12 1/2…
Oconee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 49 to 50 degrees. Clarity: Stained in the main river run throughout the lake, Richland is mostly clear. Bass: The fishing has ranged from fair to excellent, depending on the day. A lot of good bass were caught shallow in the past two weeks. Running the docks posts with a…
Lanier: Level: 1.7 feet below full pool. Temps: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: There’s been an excellent bite for big spotted bass. “The water temps stabilized around 50 degrees, and a lot of fish moved shallow,” said guide and tournament angler Ryan Coleman. “Fishing jigs around steep rock banks and under deep docks on those…
Jackson: Level: Down 3.5 feet and will begin to come back up on April 1. Temp: Low 40s. Clarity: Clear at Berry’s. Yellow and South Rivers are muddy. Bass: Good. Mike Cleveland won the pot tournament at Berry’s on December 17. “It was mediocre, people had to run all over the lake to find fish,”…
Eufaula: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-52 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Good, according to guide Jay Chambless. “There is still a good shallow-grass bite in the hydrilla,” said Jay. “Some nice fish are relating to grass that is holding bait. Look for wading birds to show you where the bait is. A variety…
Clarks Hill: Level: 2.3 feet below full. Temp: 59-60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. David Smith said there’s no big secrets to fishing Clarks Hill in January. Just take a lead-head Fluke, start at the mouth of a ditch and start chunking. Expect bites in 15-25 feet of water, and yo-yo the bait back to…
Carters: Level: 1.7 feet above full pool. Temp: 48 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: “The bite has finally arrived,” said Buddy Callahan of Bart’s Bait & Tackle. “Everybody has been catching fish.” Buddy said 17 pounds finished out of the money at a recent Saturday pot tournament out of Doll Mountain. Buddy said good stringers of…
Chatuge: Level: 7.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 47-50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. And this time of year, you need to slow down to catch fish. Daniel Workman says he loves to fish crankbaits and spinnerbaits, but this time of year at Chatuge, he will likely have a worm tied on. “You have to…
Just after daylight on December 14, Leonard Hampton and I were stalking squirrels on his Oglethorpe County hunting lease. We were following a small drain through big hardwoods hoping to see or hear a squirrel — and it didn’t take long. We heard the scrape of squirrel claws on bark and saw two gray squirrels…
While some hunters still say they aren’t seeing the number of deer they’re accustomed to seeing, based on a variety of indicators it has been a boom year for big bucks in Georgia. For sheer numbers of 130- to 160-class bucks, this may be the very best year GON has ever heard about. We’ll begin to…
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