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Fishing
Georgia is home 10 species of black bass. The two most common, which most anglers are familiar with, are the largemouth and spotted species. The remaining eight are smallmouth, shoal, Suwannee, redeye, Chattahoochee, Tallapoosa, Altamaha and the Bartram’s. If you catch five of the 10 in one calendar year, you have become eligible to be…
Georgia Saltwater Fishing Reports Inshore: Capt. Judy Helmey reports, “Spotted seatrout, redfish, sheepshead, black drum and flounder might feed at different times of the tides. However, all of them like live shrimp. You can serve it up anyway you like from naked, with or without any sort of leader or weight, or under popping or adjustable…
September can be a mean month for catching bass, but at Lake Eufaula anglers can go to shallow grass for a few big fish, or they can go to deep ledges and points for numbers. And on the ledges, you can also get on a school of good bass, too. Lake Walter F. George, known…
Sinclair: Level: 1.2 feet low. Temp: Water temps are 83-88 right now after the heavy rains but will get close to 90 in the afternoon if we get a few dry days. Clarity: Upriver is mud red with some stain working its way down. There’s some stain in the backs of pockets with incoming water,…
Nottely: Level: Full pool. Temp: 81-83 degrees. Clarity: Clear on the main lake, stained in the creeks and river. Linesides: Guide Jeremy Seabolt reports, “Striper fishing has been off the charts. This has been probably been the best August I have ever seen. We have been on some nice schools of fish. We have had…
Jackson: Level: 1 foot above full pool. Temp: Water temps in the main lake are in the mid 80s with cooler water in the 70s up the rivers. Clarity: The rivers are varying colors of stained water, and from mid-lake to the dam is clear. Bass: Tournament angler Karl Pingry reports, “According to Chuck Croft,…
Hartwell: Level: Just above full pool. Temp: Low 80s. Clarity: Two to 3 feet on the main lake and heavy stain in the creeks and river. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Justice reports, “Higher than normal oxygen levels have kept the fishing better than normal for this time of year. Throwing large walking baits and flukes…
Eufaula: Level: 1.2 feet below 190 full pool. Temp: Upper 80s. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: There’s still a mix of bass out deep and some buried in the shallow grass and pads. The deeper fish are on main-channel ledges—looks for spots on the ledges with channel bends, stumps on the high sides or brushpiles placed…
Clarks Hill: Level: 0.5 feet below full. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Tournament angler Daelyn Whaley reports, “With the water down and out of the cover, the fishing should heat up. The largemouth bite in isolated shade during the day should be a consistent pattern, along with the baitfish that will be starting…
Chatuge: Level: 0.5 feet above full. Temp: 81-84 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “Lake Chatuge has been fishing good. We’ve only been out early in the mornings. There has been some topwater action going on and fish breaking out in open water, and we’ve also caught some around laydowns using a Strike…
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