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Fishing
Chatuge: Level: 2.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 66-69 degrees. Clarity: Clear and slightly stained in creeks Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “The lake has been coming up the last couple weeks, and the fish are spawning. The largemouth are spawning in the pockets and in the backs of the small creek areas. You can…
Carters: Level: 6 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 60s. Clarity: Clear. Linesides: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “All the fish being caught are fat and healthy and seem to be in great shape. The striper bite has been awesome early in the morning, and we have been catching fish on planers and flatlines fished on…
Burton: Level: Full. Temp: 61 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The largemouth have finished spawning and are finally feeding again. We caught some nice fish this week with the average size being 5 to 6 pounds. Most of the largemouth are feeding up shallow early in the backs of the creeks along…
Blue Ridge: Level: 8 feet below full pool. Temp: 65-68 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “The fishing has been awesome. The spotted bass are all over the lake in spawning flats and off points. We’ve been targeting them with tubes, small jigs, Strike King KVD 200 series jerkbaits and Sexy Dawg Jr’s. The…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Mid to high 70s. Clarity: Light stain. Crappie: Rusty Parker reports, “It seems like the crappie are feast or famine lately. Most of the reports I am getting lately have been that the crappie are biting great and the spawn is just about over with. For the past couple of weeks,…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.1 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 70s. Clarity: Some stain. Bass: Tournament director Dennis Hudson reports, “The bass spawned early here. We saw bass guarding fry the first week of April. The best thing going now is throwing Trick Worms around boat docks and along the seawalls. It’s pretty tough right…
Allatoona: Level: Full pool. Temp: 73 degrees. Clarity: Very clear. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “Fishing is great. The month of May is a very fun time on Lake Allatoona. With most bass coming off the bed, we get into the postspawn time of year. Fish are looking to eat after being on the…
Well, we are officially on the other side of the hill now. The downhill slide. The second half of the season. Since I tagged out last weekend, I spent a couple of days this week trying to help some other people get a bird. My good friend, Lee Baird, of Putnam County, and I went…
I can’t think of anything outside of Six Flags that puts you on a roller coaster more than turkey hunting. Emotionally and physically, it will test you like nothing else. That’s how it’s been for me this season, and I really didn’t expect anything less. While Week 3 was winding down, so were my chances…
Lake Juliette, just a few miles north of Macon, in Monroe County, is one of those great lakes that I really like to striper fish. When you find a school of hungry stripers, you can limit out pretty quickly, but they are like roaming cows on a 3,600-acre pasture, and the clear water can make…
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