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Fishing Reports
Hartwell: Level: 5.5 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Josh Fowler reports, “I expect the bite to gradually improve as we settle into September. The high water temperature has made the offshore topwater bite tough, and the shallow-water buzzbait or frog fishing has produced very few bites. The most consistent…
Eufaula: Level: 1.1 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80s to low 90s. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Fair. Fish are still mired in their summer patterns, and they’re sitting in the 15- to 20-foot range around bottom structure like humps, points, ledges and bottom indentations. Look for brush or stumps in these type areas, find baitfish…
Clarks Hill: Level: 6.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 85 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Look for largemouths on the lowering end of the lake to be chasing threadfins. Bass can be caught on smaller topwater plugs, like Chug Bugs, Spook Jr. and Sammys. The most consistent bite should be found along the main river and…
Chatuge: Level: 3.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 83 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Eric Welch, of Reel Job Fishing, reports, “First thing in the morning, throw a Sammy and a Zara Spook on long points and across flats. Watch your electronics for suspending fish. There are a lot baitfish 12 to 25 feet deep,…
Carters: Level: 1.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 85 to 86 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Spotted Bass: Good. Louie Bartenfield reports, “The day bite here on Carters has been the best I remember for the month of August. I expect with September rolling in the fishing will improve. I’ve been working drop-shots rigs with Big Bite…
Burton: Level: Down 0.3 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Brown Trout: “The bite was slow the first of August, but it has rebounded,” said guide Wes Carlton. “We had several fish in the 5- to 6-lb. range the last week or two. One brown trout this past weekend was almost 9…
Blue Ridge: Level: 11 feet below full pool. Temp: 84 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Eric Welch, of Reel Job Fishing, reports, “Early in the morning and late in the evening there are a lot of fish breaking. Mostly white bass, but the spots and smallmouth are mixed in. Try throwing a Zoom Fluke Jr.…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.6 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80s up the river to 92 degrees on the main lake. Clarity: Too clear. Bass: Tough. Dennis Hudson said the standard summer patterns have not been producing for him during his three-hour Tuesday evening tournaments. However, some of the guys who run up the river…
Allatoona: Level: 6.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 86 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Matt Driver reports, “Thank goodness September is here. We are still hot at the first part of the month, but the days are getting shorter, and the fish are starting the fall feed-up and transition. Fish will begin to move shallow…
Dove fields are planted with very specific dates in mind. This year, for instance, Sept. 3 and 5 figure prominently. As noon of opening day arrives, thousands of hunters baking in the September sun count on the fact that mourning doves by the handful or hundreds will flock to their particular patch of ground. If…
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