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Hunting
It would be impossible to guess how many Georgia duck hunts have been salvaged by the high-pitched, unmistakable squeal of approaching wood ducks. A duck hunt in Georgia is often a wood-duck-only affair. Countless are the times — crazy as it seems — that I’ve gotten up at a ridiculous hour, driven too many miles,…
January weather here in Georgia often makes bass fishermen dream of a trip to Florida. But you donat Lake Seminole. There the bass fishing is often way ahead of the rest of our state. Seminole is a shallow, flat lake with lots of grass and channels snaking through spawning flats. There are stumps and standing…
Burton: Level: 6.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 46-50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. Fishing guide Nathan Lewis said that he has been catching a few spotted bass, but they are running small. “I have been catching some decent spots throwing a Norman’s crankbait on windblown, main-lake points,” he said. There has been zero surface…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: The main run of the lake is slightly stained, back in the sloughs the water is clear. Bass: Slow, according to Ernie Broughton who held his season-ending Classic on the lake December 17. “A lot of the guys packed up and left the lake by noon or…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 52 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Spots are deep and largemouths are shallow. To catch good numbers of fish and have a ball, get a jigging spoon and head to Halawakee Creek. Jim Pass said to look for humps in water 22- to 25-feet deep, and drop…
Allatoona: Level: Down 15.7 feet below full pool. Temps: 46-48 degrees. Clarity: Stained from the mid-section to the rivers, mostly clear on the main lake from Stamp Creek to the dam and around to the Pass. Bass: Good, according to guide and tournament angler Mike Bucca. “Right now the early-morning crankbait bite with a Lucky…
Blue Ridge: Level: 13.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 48- 50-degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The largemouths aren’t hitting, and the smallmouths have slacked off, too, said fishing guide Nathan Lewis. Nathan says your best bet in January is a jigging spoon and go deep. Nathan has been fishing a 6/10-oz. Flex-it in chartreuse/white, white…
Hartwell: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-52 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Stripers/Hybrids: Off and on. Fishing guide Buster Green says you can catch eight or 10 stripers or hybrids on live bluebacks, but you have to work for them. “The bait has moved back in the creeks, and the stripers and hybrids have moved…
Nothing heats up a cold winter day like a bass on the end of the line. Two of the best ways to catch that instant heat are jigging spoons and crankbaits. These two classic cold-water hard lures can warm up a winter day in a hurry when the bass turn on. Working these two baits,…
Marben Farms PFA: Level: All ponds are full. Clarity: Clear, visibility in all of the ponds is more 36 inches. Temp: 52 degrees. Bass: A few bass are still being taken in deeper water, mostly with plastic worms. Also try deep-running crankbaits fished near structure along the submerged creek channels. Crappie: Crappie fishing is picking…
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