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Fishing Reports
Chatuge: Level: 2.2 feet below full pool. Temperature: 80 degrees. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “The topwater bite has picked up. I’m throwing Strike King Sexy Dawgs and Zara Spooks the first couple of hours after daylight and before dark. It’s also a good time of year to start throwing Zoom Flukes around boat…
Carters: Level: Full pool. Temp: 82 degrees. Clarity: Fairly clear. Bass: Guide Louie Bartenfield reports, “Fishing is average here at Carters for August. Most of our spotted bass are staying in the 25- to 30-foot depths like they have the majority of summer, but I’m finding them sliding off a bit deeper some days. I…
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: 81 degrees. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The largemouth bite has been decent early in the mornings on topwater or around docks. Try using a white fluke or a Super Spin tipped with a white fluke. Spotted bass have been schooling mid-morning in and around humps and points. We…
Blue Ridge: Level: 0.6 feet above full pool. Temp: 78-82 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “The bite has been steady. We’re still catching fish deep on a drop shot with a 4.5-inch Roboworm and a shaky head with a Zoom Trick Worm. There has been some fish breaking early in the mornings…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.1 feet below full pool. Temp: High 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: “Fishing is really slow right now,” said tournament director and angler Dennis Hudson. “A few bass are being caught upriver in the afternoons when they are running water using hollow-body frogs fished in the bank undercuts and the eddies. A few…
Allatoona: Level: Full pool. Temp: 88 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “September on Allatoona starts a progression to better fishing. The water temperature is slowly, and I mean slowly, lowering. September is a great time to fish topwater. The buzzbait and SPRO Hydro-Pop are great from the middle to the end…
Georgia saltwater anglers will soon have new places to catch black sea bass, sheepshead and flounder thanks to 400 concrete transmission pole sections and bases that have been dropped to the ocean floor. DNR’s Coastal Resources Division (CRD) said the concrete sections are the latest addition to Artificial Reef F—located 9 nautical miles east of…
Two giant alligators, both measuring more than 12 feet long, were taken at Lake Seminole during opening weekend of Georgia’s limited, quota-only alligator hunting season. Frank Timmons, of Columbus, and his friend Greg Kolb, from Missouri, snagged one of the 12-plus-foot gators. On Friday, Aug. 14, the two met up at the Wingate’s Lodge on…
Ten Georgia Power Company lakes will experience drawdowns this fall or winter. “Get out your Rat-L-Traps,” Aaron Batson said when asked about the lake drawdowns. Aaron is a tournament angler, a contributor to GON‘s fishing reports and a two-time GON Eliminator Series bass tournament champion. “Fall fishing already bunches up schools of bass that follow…
Redfin pickerel, or the redfin pike as the ol’ timers call them—do they still exist? Or, are they simply forgotten? Have most of the small flowing waters they once flourished in long ago silted in and quit flowing? I’ve fished all over Georgia from trout up high to jackfish in the Okefenokee, and until recently…
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