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Fishing Reports
Oconee: Level: Full at 435. Temp: 52-53 degrees. Clarity: Water is muddy from north end to Great Waters. The dam area is still clear. Bass: Guide Nick Knapp, with Elite Guide Service, reports, “During the month of March, look for fish to be moving off the points and deep water toward the bank. March can…
Allatoona: Level: 4.2 feet below 840. Temp: 49. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “The bass bite in March at Allatoona is typically on fire. The crankbait bite is hard to beat. The bass are on the move headed toward spawning areas. They are feeding up along the way. The shallow, stained water…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Judy Helmey reports, “Well, I don’t have to tell you that January/February 2025 weather has been crazy. Our brief but devastating so-called blizzard/snowstorm dropped the water temps fast, causing much mayhem in the fisheries. This situation halted fishing for about a week. The bad weather is hopefully all behind us. It seems even…
Russell: Level: Full at 475. Temp: 50-52 degrees. Clarity: Clear on the main lake and stained in the creeks. Bass: Tournament angler Kerry Partain reports, “The bass fishing has been good the last few weeks and should continue to get better with warmer weather on the way. Most of the bass are being caught on…
The U.S. Senate confirmed Kash Patel as the next Director of the FBI, marking a major victory for gun owners and constitutional rights advocates nationwide, according to the nation’s top Second Amendment protection organizations. “Gun Owners of America (GOA) has proudly supported Patel throughout the confirmation process—despite relentless attacks from Senate Democrats who took issue…
If you like to fish, especially in small lakes, there’s nothing like a warming trend in early February. Add into the recipe a trip to Lake Varner with its history of producing big largemouth bass, and no surprise the snooze button saw no action before I jumped out of bed to start a cup of…
Oliver: Level: 0.6 feet below 337. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Stained to clearing. Bass: Tournament angler Tyler Morgan is featured in this month’s Map-of-the-Month article. He said to concentrate on the mouths of sloughs until the water warms, and then move into the backouts and target stumps and grass. Fish wood cover on the river…
Winter is back, so it is up to judging how much of a warm-up behind a front will get the fish biting again. Some folks got on good bites in both salt and freshwater, while others did not put all the pieces together. This week’s rains have all of the south Georgia rivers rising—some are…
Twenty years ago if you had wild hog problems, some would go through the paperwork hoopla and then hope to shoot a few after dark over bait. Others would find a heavy-duty trap and hope to catch a few more than one at a time. With the invention of net-style traps, like the Pig Brig…
As most people were driving home from their 9-to-5 jobs the evening of Feb. 17, Aaron Riggins was having the fight of his life on Lake Hartwell. “With whom?” you might ask. None other than a 75-lb. catfish, and it very well could have been the same 74-lb. fish he caught in the area about…
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