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Carters: Level: 1.1 feet above full pool. Temp: 78-80 degrees. Clarity: Clear; 4-foot visibility. Bass: Good. Guide Louie Bartenfield reports, “Topwater, jerkbaits and SpotSticker jig heads have been my best baits. The bite out there is good, but it’s easy to miss. We’ve boated anywhere from 11 to 30-plus fish. The key each day has…
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: 75 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The largemouth bite has been an early morning bite. Try using a Super Spook or a small prop bait. There have not been many of these fish biting, but the ones that have are big! Spotted bass are schooled up great…
Blackshear: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 77-79 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Crappie: Rusty Parker reports, “One fisherman said he has been doing fairly well pitching around dock lights. My friend said he and his partner have been doing well pitching a R.A.G. Fly Jig with a chartreuse head, pearl-white body and a chartreuse tail…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.4 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tournament director Dennis Hudson says bass fishing has been pretty tough except for the early topwater bite. “Most of the bass are being caught right after daylight on hollow frogs,” he said. “They are biting on topwater on up in the…
Allatoona: Level: Full pool. Temp: 79 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tournament fisherman Matt Driver reports, “Fishing this month is great. With the winter drawdown and decreasing water temps, the bass are in full feed-up mode. This is not the time of year to sit around. It’s time to drop the trolling motor, and fish for…
A giant tarpon brought boatside and released on Sept. 4 is the latest exclamation point on fantastic tarpon fishing off the Georgia coast. Jeff Pierce, of Atlanta, was fishing with Capt. Greg Hildreth when he caught and released what certainly would have been a new Georgia state record. However, like with almost every big tarpon…
For me, October is the most glorious month of the year. The air is bright and cool. There are football games on TV that actually matter. Restaurant patios are covered by college girls in sundresses with little stickers on their faces. There are balloons everywhere. Children are laughing, angels are crying, but mostly, I finally…
There are few things better than the bass fishing Lake Oconee offers throughout the fall months. Not only are the thousands of summer pleasure boaters a thing of the past, but there’s something special happening at this very moment. As you’re reading this article, millions of shad are making their annual migration to the backs…
I was getting close, at least that is what my GPS was telling me. My flashlight scanned back and forth looking for the lone bright eye I had placed on the tree earlier in the week. I finally saw the reflection in the distance, and I knew I was there. Even though I had found…
Old-timers will remember when there were two huge weekends for Georgia deer hunters—opening day of gun season, and then a couple of weeks later there was the first “doe-day” weekend of the season. Well, doe days are back… not nearly to the extent they once were, but there’s reason again to take some time learning…
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