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Clarks Hill: Level: 8.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 68-71 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Dale Gibbs reports, “The recent cool temperatures drove the surface temperature back into the upper 60s. With that, the blueback herring bite slowed abruptly. It looks as if warmer weather is coming back, and with that the blueback herring should…
Carters: Level: 1.6 feet above full pool. Temp: 67-70 degrees. Clarity: Great; 6+ feet visibility. Spotted Bass: Good. Guide Louie Barternfield reports, “The bite is improving each week. There has been a good shallow bite early covering water with Pop Rs, flukes and Spro McStick 110 jerkbaits. Fish these baits fast, and cover water for…
Allatoona: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 69 degrees. Clarity: A little dirty on the north end; clear from mid-lake south. Bass: Good. Matt Driver reports, “May is less eventful than April on Allatoona. Most bass are off bed, and the postspawn blues have worn off. Fish are feeding and making up for lost…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1 foot below full pool. Temp: 65-72 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: Tough. Dennis Hudson said he doesn’t know what to think of the bite at Bartletts. He said the majority of the fish have spawned, but there are still plenty of fish up shallow. A few are on beds, and some…
Blackshear: Level: 2.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 70 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Tournament angler Brian Davis said Blackshear has not been fishing as well as it typically does in the spring. It took about 15 pounds for him to win a recent tournament, and he did it on postspawn fish. Brian said all…
Blue Ridge: Level: 8.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 70-73 degrees. Clarity: 6 to 10 feet visibility. Smallmouths: Good. Eric Crowley, with Lake and Stream Guide Service, reports, “Blue Ridge is still a bit cooler than normal, but look for the smallmouth bite to take off in the next few weeks. Smack Tackle Smack Jacks,…
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: 64 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good for numbers. Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The bass are almost finished with spawning. We have been catching a lot of numbers the last few days. Jerkbaits and worms have been working well. Most of the fish are shallow in 3 to 8 feet. I…
The Georgia Bass Chapter Federation (GBCF) youth division held their 2012 Top-6 championship tournament on Lake Blackshear on March 31. Held under the FLW program, the best young tournament anglers from bass clubs in Georgia fished for bragging rights and state-championship honors. Six youth clubs sent teams to the tournament, and their top anglers competed…
An adjustment on the water earned two McIntosh High School seniors a national championship at Lake Murray, S.C. April 15. Dalton Anderson and Dawson Lenz, both of Peachtree City, won the FLW/TBF National Championship with 16-lbs., 12-ozs. The two 18-year-olds beat out their closest competition by more than 8 pounds when the spawning blueback pattern…
Flounder are on the move this month, migrating back from nearshore reefs and wrecks. Every year they make a migration offshore in the fall and then back inshore in the spring. It’s the larger flounder that make the migrations. The smaller ones, the ones from the current and previous years’ hatches, remain inshore in the…
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