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Fishing Reports
Allatoona: Level: 2.7 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 60s to low 70s. Clarity: Clear to light stain. Bass: Great. Matt Driver reports, “Spring started early this year, and usually April is the spawn month, but fish began to spawn in early to mid March. There are still many waves to go, but there will…
April is one of the best months of the year for Georgia anglers. All over the state fish of all species are feeling the urge to spawn and head to the banks. And the bass of Black Shoals are no exception. Black Shoals Lake, in Rockdale County, is a picturesque spot. This 650-acre water-supply reservoir…
If ever there was a spring to be thinking ahead, it’s probably this one. It’s not supposed to be 85 degrees in mid March. There’s not supposed to be this much pollen this early, and I can’t ever remember the woods being quite so green before turkey season started. However, Aaron Batson, of Oxford, has…
If you hunt turkeys for 40 years as I have, sooner or later you are going to experience days when turkeys just don’t gobble. It may be three to five days, a whole week, month or an entire season. You wake in the morning hopeful and go to bed discouraged and ready to quit, but…
Food plots on WMAs, access to a favorite camping spot, getting a hatchery truck full of trout to a stream—those are just some of what could be affected—or lost—as the Forest Service looks to downsize its road system. Every national forest in the United States must complete a Travel Analysis Process (TAP) by 2015. The…
Two 18-year-old tournament anglers from Peachtree City can arguably call themselves two of the top-10 high school bass anglers in the nation. When McIntosh High School seniors Dalton Anderson and Dawson Lenz started a school bass club their sophomore year, there’s no way they could have known it would take them this far. On April…
What do you get when you cross a toad and a turkey? You get the coolest country concert series and the longest tradition for a non-stop, three-day outdoor extravaganza. It’s time again for the Busch’s Country Goes Huntin’ (BCGH) event, where country artists are paired with hunting-industry personalities to hunt turkeys and do a little guitar…
Trying to improve the quality of your deer and your hunting experiences? Food plots planted in the fall that feature a tower stand in the corner are common on many hunting properties these days, but if you really want to help your deer, you should look to provide nutrition in the summer. A food plot…
Marietta Bassmasters hosted a conservation project at Victoria Landing on Lake Allatoona on Jan. 7. The project was organized in conjunction with fisheries biologists with WRD. Several years ago WRD had several concrete anchor points poured into the lake bed in locations along the shoreline in places that were lacking natural cover. The idea was…
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