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Fishing Reports
Eufaula: Level: 1.8 below full pool. Temp: High 60s to mid 70s. Clarity: Stain up the lake from recent rains, it’s fairly clear on the lower lake. Bass: Professional angler Jay Chambless said bass fishing has been tough lately. Jay said there are still a few fish trying to spawn, but trying to catch them…
Chattahoochee Tailwater Water temp: mid-50s “We’ve been having a good blue-winged olive (BWO) hatch that is more prevalent than it has been in the past,” said Chris Scalley. He said you can match the hatch by tying on a BWO from size 16 all the way down to a tiny 24. Parachute Adams and comparaduns…
Hartwell: Level: 1 foot below full pool. Temp: Low 70s, some warmer water back in stained creeks. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Hartwell’s famous Spooks & Flukes bite is under way. The run-and-gun pattern on main-lake points, humps and reef markers was made famous by Hartwell fishing guide Mark Waller — and he is still catching fish…
West Point: Level: 1.7 feet below full. Temp: 72 degrees. Clarity: Clear on the main lake, stained upriver. Bass: Guide Paul Parsons said the water temperature is just right, and the new moon should have the big females on the bed. Some anglers are reporting seeing some bedding fish. Paul thinks most fish will be…
Quick quiz… what’s more frightening for the future of hunting and wildlife conservation? Is it that hunter numbers are falling in Georgia, and that the percentage of hunters under 34 years old gets smaller and smaller each year? Or, is it that animal-rights groups like PETA and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)…
May is the month that southeast Georgia anglers hit the streams and rivers. The red-breasted sunfish are bedding this month, and some of the biggest you will ever catch can be caught right now. Whether you call them redbreasts, red-bellies, or robins, these fish are great to eat and put up quite a fight on…
If you think crappie fishing is a matter of dragging dozens of jigs behind a boat on a spider rig or drowning minnows straight under the boat, you will be surprised at the fast action and fun of shooting docks. May is a good month to land a mess of crappie to eat, and Lake…
Stonefly Nymph Hook: Size 8-16 Standard Nymph Rib: Brown V-Rib Thorax & Abdomen: Gold/Brown Dubbing Tail & Antennae: Sulfur Orange Turkey/Goose Biots Wing Case: Natural Turkey Flat “I especially enjoy fly fishing for wild trout in May; many streams in Georgia are home to wild, annually reproducing trout. A large percentage of these streams…
Russell: Level 1.3 feet below full pool. Temps: 72 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good with most fish quickly moving off the beds and settling into a postspawn pattern that should last until the end of May. Early try topwater plugs on secondary points. As the sun gets on the water, continue to fish secondary points,…
Weiss: Level: .5 feet below full pool. Temp: 76 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is clear, the Coosa is dingy. Bass: Fair. Lake Weiss fishing guide Mark Collins said the bass spawn is winding down. “I have seen a few bass guarding balls of fry,” he said. Mark said the grassbeds are just beginning to…
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