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Fishing Reports
Carters: Level: 1.4 feet above full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear.Stripers: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “Carters… what can I say but hero or zero! Been a crazy month of ups and downs with striped fish. I watched the water temps jump from 78 to 88, back to 76 degrees and even had 67-degree water…
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: 84 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The bass bite has really picked up. The spotted bass are over a little deeper water than normal but have been following the herring schools up and down the lake. Most of these bass are in schools of 20 to 30…
Blue Ridge: Level: Full pool. Temp: 84-86 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Welch reports, “Mornings and late afternoons are your best times for catching fish this month. The bass we are catching have been deep. We’re targeting steep, shady bank lines and any laydowns. The main bait this month is a drop-shot rig with…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 90 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. “Bass fishing is pretty slow,” said tournament director Dennis Hudson. “You can catch bass some on topwater early around the grass with a frog and a Texas rig, but later in the day most people have been catching the bass…
Allatoona: Level: 0.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 89 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Slow. Tournament pro and radio host Matt Driver reports, “August can be a very tough month. Bass are deep, with the best concentration around 18 to 25 feet deep. Drop-shot finesse worms and shad baits like the Jointed Jerk Minnow are…
Editor’s Note: The 16-year-old author from Dallas was a contestant at GON’s Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on July 24, 2015 at the Outdoor Blast. He wrote the following story about his new-found passion for trapping. It all started out when I kept getting multiple trail-camera pictures of coyotes on a tract of land we had…
Glenn Earnest has done his fair share of hunting in his 70 years, but nothing compares to his kills over the past six years. Nestled just below the Tennessee line in the small town of Crandall, Glenn spends his time outside on the tractor or hunting coyotes. Glenn does most of his hunting off Highway…
A new record for Etowah River striped bass has been established. On July 18, 2015, Hunter Ramsey caught an Etowah striper that was certified at 32 1/2 pounds.
Jared Wagoner, of Cumming, reeled in what most anglers would consider a catch of a lifetime July 4th weekend—a new lake-record flathead catfish of almost 35 pounds. But Jared feels there are many more larger flatheads in Lake Lanier. Jared and friends fished Thursday night, July 2, for roughly two hours, and they caught six…
Modern bows provide the speed to shoot heavier total arrow weights while the archer uses just one sight pin. What a difference from when I got started! The first archery shoot I attended was in the early 80s. The targets were large square bales of straw or cardboard with photos of animals with lines drawn…
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