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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…
Chatuge: Level: 7 feet below full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The pot-tournament season is about to get cranked up on Chatuge, and when it does, John Hembree said he would have three baits tied on: a fluke, a crankbait like a Shad Rap, and a jerkbait. “I throw a Husky Jerk in…
Burton: Level: 5.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 49-51 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Trout: The trout are still back in the creeks and pockets near the dam, said Nathan Lewis, but at lower numbers than late last fall. Most of the fish are in the nine- to 12-inch range, but there are a few bigger trout…
Blue Ridge: Level: 15.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-50 degrees, the backs of the pockets are a little warmer. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Improving. “We are catching fish every day,” said guide Nathan Lewis. “But some days you catch five, and some days you catch 10.” Nathan said the fish were beginning to get more…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 54 degrees. Clarity: The river is stained, the sloughs are clear. Crappie: Slow, but should be breaking loose any day. Rusty Parker said his crappie-fishing friends had only been catching a few, but the size was good, and the fish were full of eggs. Fish were hitting Tripple-Ripple jigs 16-feet…
Allatoona: Level: Down 8.8 feet below full pool. Temps: 49-52 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, and getting better. “The fish are officially in prespawn,” said guide Mike Bucca. “They are moving up out of the deeper water and onto the shallow, newly flooded flats,” he said. Mike recommends a Lucky Craft Flat Mini DR crankbait in…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 52-54 and climbing. Clarity: Stained after recent rains. Some muddy areas. Bass: Some fish are already being caught in shallow water, and Jim Pass said having muddy water and warm temperatures is going to really help the water temperatures rise quickly. “The warm weather is about…
“I hate hogs,” Ricky Crook said to me across the front seat of his pickup. If anybody hates hogs, it’s definitely Ricky. “I killed 35 last week,” he said. Thirty-five! Good grief, the man does have some kind of hog problems. Ricky deer hunts several tracts of land in Sumter County. One tract he hunts…
In February 2005, Lake Burton produced a new Georgia state-record spotted bass, a fat 8-lb., 2-oz. fish. Burton is full of big spots, and a surprising number of largemouths, and the bass are on a pattern this month that can produce some outstanding catches. Burton is a small Georgia Power Co. reservoir just off Highway 76 between Clayton…
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