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Fishing Reports
Blue Ridge: Level: 0.8 feet above full pool. Temp: 80 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “Going into September, we are looking forward to cooler temps and more active fish. September is when the walleye will move up in the column, the smallies will stay up more then 15 minutes a day, and…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Mid to upper 80s. Clarity: Clear. Crappie: Rusty Parker reports, “Wow I don’t see how the crappie are biting with this heat wave we are having now. A few good slabs have been caught along the railroad trestle close to Veterans Park. These have been caught using R.A.G. Fly jigs…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 85 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Tournament director and angler Dennis Hudson reports that bass fishing is fair. “Buzzbaits and frogs fished early from mid-lake up are about the only way to catch anything right now. There’s a lot of milfoil and hydrilla in the middle of…
Allatoona: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 85 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tournament fisherman Matt Driver reports, “Allatoona starts a positive transition this month. The last month or so it has been stale and slow to say the least. We are seeing the topwater bite on the increase, and as we get cooler nights…
Clint Shipman won his third—and likely final—Georgia state duck-calling championship by topping a tough field of nine of the state’s elite competition duck callers. The event was held July 27 during GON’s Outdoor Blast at the Gwinnett Center. After a third state title, there is an unwritten but widely followed rule that duck callers don’t…
GON’s Youth Big-Buck contest is back! A winning youth will collect a $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna and go deer and hog hunting with the fantastic folks at Woods-N-Water outfitters. I couldn’t imagine walking into Adventure Outdoors and getting to spend $3,000 on whatever I wanted. Guns, bows, camo, tree stands, coolers,…
Whether you call them bowfin (the American Fisheries Society accepted common name), mudfish, grinnel, cypress bass or the whole host of other monikers, this feisty predator is highly underrated. They have a nasty disposition, a face full of teeth and a penchant for ruining fishing lures. What more could you want? OK, so their flesh…
GON just gave away another 4×4 Chevy pickup truck to a deer hunter. It’s become a Georgia hunting tradition—the Truck-Buck contest with weekly winners all through deer season and a grand-prize Shoot-Out the next summer… and somebody driving home from the Shoot-Out in a new truck. Or, as was the case last year, riding home…
The draft plan for managing Georgia’s deer herd for the next 10 years, “Georgia’s Deer Management Plan 2015-2024, was released Aug. 1. How does the plan address deer populations, bag limits, season dates, baiting, coyotes and other issues key to sportsmen? What’s a Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP), and how will it function and be…
A pair of anglers in a July 12 bass-club tournament at Banks Lake bought an 11 1/2-lb. bass and presented it for the tourney weigh-in. They might have even gotten away with it, but apparently the agreed-upon price for the fish changed when the pair didn’t win as much money as they thought they would.…
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