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Fishing Reports
Burton: Level: 1 foot above full. Temp: 48 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Guide Tyler Clore reports, “The bite has been up and down with the recent fronts that have been bringing cold, wind, rain and snow in. The rain and snow has raised the lake level but also stained large portions of the lake. The…
Lanier: Level: 0.5 feet above 1071. Temp: 48 degrees. Clarity: Clear in the main lake, the rivers are still stained to muddy. Bass: Jimbo, from Jimbo’s Lake Lanier Spotted Bass Guide Service,, “Fishing during late February and March can provide some interesting opportunities. The largemouth will be soon to spawn and the spots will begin to stage…
West Point: Level: 4.2 below 635. Temp: High 50s to low 60s. Clarity: Slight stain. Bass: Good. Guide Keith Hudson reports, “Expect big changes as we move into March. Warming weather and a stained lake should move many of the largemouth shallow quickly, especially when we have a decent warming trend. Expect the largemouth bite…
After a 42-year run, the Lake Allatoona white crappie record has been broken. Cody Hopkins, of Canton, is the new record holder after catching a 3-lb., 4.24-oz. slab on Feb. 10. “It was only the third fish I’ve caught since moving here on Dec. 4,” said Cody. Cody is the new caretaker at Cushing Memorial Park…
Chris Daniel, of Cumming, isn’t a dad guilty of not spending enough time with his kids. In fact, he spent so much time with them in 2021 that two of his sons collected a total of 41 WRD Georgia Angler Awards for various fish species in Lake Lanier. “I have three kids who love to…
By Jordan Conant When I moved to Georgia to attend college back in 2009, I hardly knew anything about deer hunting. Growing up in Maine, I was an avid fisherman, and although my dad and I had spent several fall days away from the football field in pursuit of deer, we weren’t exactly accomplished hunters.…
Georgia Power announced this week a successful prescribed burn on approximately 60 acres of company land at Lake Oconee adjacent to the Wildlife Management Area. The effort, under permit by the Georgia Forestry Commission and in collaboration with the Shortleaf Pine Initiative, is designed to begin restoring a native shortleaf pine ecosystem once prevalent in the…
Some counties or parts of counties in extreme southwest Georgia could see a change to the start and end to their deer seasons by the 2023 season. Research and input from hunters have shown a significant number of does in those areas having a later conception date than does in other parts of the state.…
The declining turkey population in the southeastern United States made front page news after almost 20 years of data collection and scientific research backing the claim. If you spend any time at all looking into possible causes, you’ll find a hundred different theories. The most common to blame being predation, habitat loss, increased use of…
Published Feb. 10, 2022 Travis “T-Bone” Turner still needs those prayers. On Feb. 1, the beloved Bone Collector T.V. personality from Hogansville announced publicly that he is fighting cancer. One part of Travis’s battle was the amputation of part of his right leg above the knee. That surgery took place on Feb. 7. Two days…
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