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Fishing Reports
Weiss: Level: 3.0 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 48-50 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is stained, the Coosa is muddy, and Little River and Yellow Creek are fairly clear. Crappie: “The fishing is great, super, excellent,” said Weiss guide Mark Collins. “I had a trip this morning (Feb. 24), and we had limits by…
Sinclair: Level: .3 feet below full pool. Temp: 52-56 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: The bass bite has been on and off. With the weather stabilizing, the fish should be biting better in the coming weeks. Jerry McClure said he thinks the bass are staging, waiting for the water to warm up a little more before…
Seminole: Level: 6 inches below full. Temp: 58-60 degrees. Clarity: Dingy in the river channels, but clearing up pretty quick. There is some clear water around Lily Pad Run, and Carl’s Pass. Bass: A tournament out of Wingate’s Lunker Lodge on February 25 drew nearly 70 boats. It took a 24-lb. sack of bass to…
Russell: Level .26 feet above full pool. Temps: 50-52 degrees. Clarity: Clear except for a slight stain in some of the feeder creeks. Bass: Most of the bass are still deep, but the extended warmer spells this month will move some bass shallow to the backs of the creeks and pockets. On warmer days, try…
Oconee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50 to 53 degrees. Clarity: Stained, with the clearest water in the Richland Creek arm. Bass: Stained water and warm temperatures this week should suck more and more bass shallow, according to tournament angler Aaron Batson. “A lot of guys are still throwing the small crankbaits, but spinnerbaits and Rat-L-Traps…
Nottely: Level: Down 15 feet below full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Striper/Hybrids: On a mid-February trip to Nottely, John Hembree said he caught about 20 hybrids and stripers up to about six pounds. “I have been catching them on a little 1/2-oz. white/chartreuse bucktail,” said John. “Flukes will work, but we are catching…
Lanier: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temps: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear, except some color in the backs of creeks up the lake. Spotted Bass: Plenty of healthy spots in the 2- to 4-lb. range are being caught. While a lot of spotted bass are still in the deep brush and structure, the jerkbait bite…
Jackson: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Slight stain on the main lake, muddy in the Yellow and South rivers. Bass: Fair. The end of February and first of March is usually good on a shallow-rock pattern with small crankbaits on rip-rap, seawalls, bridge pilings, chunk rock or pea-gravel banks. Red-clay banks are also…
Clarks Hill: Level: Full pool. Temp: 52-54 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, said Craig Johnson, who with partner Kip Ashmore has won six tournaments in the past seven weeks. “We have been catching 30 or 40 fish a day,” said Craig. “We are floating a white-ice Super Fluke. Everyone else is fishing the ditches with…
Carters: Level: .9 feet above full pool. Temp: 44-45 degrees with some water up to the upper 40s in the backs of pockets late in the day. Clarity: Slight stain from recent rains. Bass: The prespawn bite is just around the corner. Right now, the spotted bass are on a jig bite. “The green pumpkin…
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