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Carters: Level: 3.4 feet above full pool. Temp: 51 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: Guide Louie Bartenfield reports, “The bite here is good, but not great. The recent flooding we experienced increased the lake level to 12 feet over pool at one point. This has scattered the fish big time. There is still a decent…
Burton: Level: 1.7 feet below full pool. Lake Burton rose over 6 feet from the recent rains but is being drawn back down. Temp: 47 degrees. Clarity: Heavy stain. Bass: Capt. Wes Carlton reports, “The bass have moved up a little shallower than normal. Most of the spots we have been catching are in 20…
Blue Ridge: Level: 9.7 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 40s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Eric Crowley, of Lake and Stream Guide Service, reports, “This mountain reservoir is a hard lake to fish in February, but if you can find the smallies, you can for sure catch ’em. The key this month will be finding the…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 56-58 degrees. Clarity: Stained but not muddy. Crappie: Good. Rusty Parker reports, “The crappie have really picked up the past few days. Several limits of nice-sized crappie are being caught both by tight-lining minnows and also by long-line trolling with jigs. The best jig is the R.A.G. Fly jig that…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 50-53 degrees. Clarity: There’s a little bit of color after the rains a few weeks ago. Bass: Fair. “The crankbait bite is running pretty good,” Dennis Hudson said. The best bite has been in Halawakee Creek because that’s typically where the shad move to in the…
Allatoona: Level: 11.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 50-53 degrees. Clarity: Stained from Little River all the way to Clear Creek. Bass: Good. Guide Jody Samples reports, “Fish can be caught several different ways right now. The Big Bite Baits Squirrel Tail worm in pumpkin-chartreuse and talapia colors have been producing numbers and size. A…
Never has there been a response like GON received for this year’s Rate Your Deer Season. Not even close. Almost 1,200 hunters took the time to fill out our surveys and get them to us. And what is absolutely stunning is the number of three- and four-page, heartfelt letters from hunters who have been on…
There’s a largely overlooked 1,750-acre treasure in middle Georgia that few bass anglers take advantage of. At first glance, it’s not a particularly “sexy” fishery—you won’t find an abundance of river ledges, huge brushpiles or underwater rock piles. In fact, if you’re not a local, you’ll probably find yourself struggling to simply pronounce its name…
If you’re like most turkey hunters, you’ll work a gobbler anywhere you can find him. When you strike a bird, the game is on and where you, or the gobbler, are standing at the time doesn’t matter. Lots of times the particulars of the property doesn’t come into play until some time has passed and…
If you wait for the peak of spawning in March to go crappie fishing, you are missing out on some of the best fishing of the year, especially for big fish. Clarks Hill, a 71,000-acre reservoir on the Savannah River, offers great crappie fishing. There are many creeks and smaller rivers entering this huge lake…
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