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Fishing Reports
Chatuge: Level: 7.8 feet below 1925. Temp: 53-55 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “Fishing has been fair. The lake is at normal winter pool. I fish a lot of the same baits that I fish in the summertime in the winter. I just slow way down and I’m not looking to cover a lot of the…
Carters: Level: 3.8 feet above 1074. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: 8 feet. Walleye: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “Just because it’s cold doesn’t mean you can’t catch fish. In fact if you learn how fish act in the coldest times of the year, it can be a lot of fun. Vertical fishing is the name if…
Burton: Level: 6 feet below full pool. Temp: 49 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain. Bass: Capt. Wes Carlton reports, “The bass bite has been good the last few days. We have caught fish shallow and deep. Most of our bigger fish have been on main-lake points over a 30-foot bottom. We have been using a 6/10-oz.…
Blue Ridge: Level: 13.2 feet below 1681. Temp: 51 degrees. Clarity: 10 to 12 feet. Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “The bite is fair. The lake is now at full winter pool, and we have been having some strange weather. Some nights are down in low 30s with days in the mid 50s, then we are right back to…
Editor’s Note: Rosmarie Kelly, PhD MPH is a Public Health Entomologist on the Vector-Borne & Zoonotic Diseases Team working for the Georgia Department of Public Health. Kelly was at the Oaky Woods WMA check station collecting tick data from harvested bears during the one-day middle Georgia bear season on Dec. 18. The Department of Public…
Worth County was recently in the news with a giant road-killed buck that grossed 174 inches and hurt the feelings of quite a few local hunters who had been hunting him. Another Worth County buck, this one scoring near 190, was recently killed, but thankfully this one was taken by a hunter. With a new…
Commercial fishermen can take to the water beginning at 12 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2022, to take advantage of the opening day of shad season, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD). Shad season is scheduled to run through midnight on Mar. 31, 2022. “Fishing effort was down a bit…
Many hours of my life have been spent devouring the pages of outdoor publications, especially during my childhood. We had boxes of old magazines dating back to the 1950s, 60s, 70s. Those hours were leisurely, but they were certainly not wasted. The old, tattered magazine pages of Outdoor Life, Field & Stream and Harding’s Fur…
Editor’s Note: Below is the story of the catch—and release— of the new state-record shoal bass caught Dec. 23, 2021 on the Chattahoochee River near Columbus by angler Matt McWhorter. The shoalie weighed 8-lbs., 5-ozs. on certified scales in front of witnesses, including DNR Law Enforcement Cpl. Eric Isom. The below story is written by…
January’s cold temperatures reduce boat traffic, but that cold only increases spotted bass activity on Lake Allatoona. Fish rocks and brush in ditches and channel edges 25 to 30 feet deep for numbers of fish, or go deeper for bigger fish. Either way, it is a good time to be on Allatoona. With 12,000 acres…
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