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Fishing Reports
Chatuge: Level: 0.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 83 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Eric Welch, of Reel Job Fishing, reports, “The fish are deep. We’ve been catching fish around deep docks in 18- to 30-feet of water drop-shotting a 4 1/2-inch Roboworm in morning dawn. Also, a Texas-rigged Zoom Finesse Worm in watermelon seed…
Carters: Level: 1.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 87 to 89 degrees. Clarity: Clear; 4 to 6 feet visibility. Spotted Bass: Good. Louie Bartenfield reports, “The day bite has improved for me over the past few weeks. I’ve been out on a few rare July day trips as of late, and to my surprise the…
Blue Ridge: Level: 8.0 feet below full pool. Temp: 81 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Eric Welch, of Reel Job Fishing, reports, “We are catching a lot of fish drop-shotting a 4 1/2-inch Roboworm in new ayu on deep docks and bank lines. We are also catching fish on a Bass Pro 3 1/2-inch Tender…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 88 to 93 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The fishing has either been up or down, said Dennis Hudson. He said it’s been taking anywhere from 7 to 12 pounds to win his tournaments. There has been a sporadic topwater bite running the main-river banks in the…
Allatoona: Level: 2.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 88-90 degrees. Clarity: Clear; 4- to 4 1/2-foot visibility. Bass: Fair to good. Matt Driver reports, “Even though about 80 percent of the bass are deep this month, we have caught several fish shallower, with a few coming on Jewel Akins jigs and brown-with-chartreuse Spanky’s jigs on…
Prior to the culmination of this year’s SEEDS Big-Buck Contest, last year’s SEEDS Shoot-Out winner, Grayson York, of Martin, took the mic. “Keep your eye on the target, and squeeze the trigger,” Grayson advised. Gray Giles, of Perry, who was 13 when he killed his qualifying buck, apparently took the advice to heart. Fifteen…
If you thought it was hot in July, just wait and see what August has in store for us. The dog days of August normally bring us the hottest temperatures of the year. On Lake Sinclair that means early morning water temps in the upper 80s and low 90s and late afternoon water temps in…
They grow them really big in south Georgia, and we are not talking about football players, sweet potatoes or watermelons. We are talking about trophy bears, bruins in the 400-plus-lb. range. Hunters who trek to Canada or out West in search of trophy bears might be surprised to learn they could avoid expensive travel and…
Atlanta area trout fishermen may have been thrilled with the news that the brown trout below Buford Dam are reproducing so successfully that there is no longer a need to stock them in the tailwater. However, those big browns are still very tough to catch. From previous catches and shocking surveys, we know the…
By J. Wyatt Hutcheson Since April 28, a wildfire caused by a lightning strike has burned in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. At presstime, that fire had burned approximately 281,992 acres of swamp and land in both Georgia and Florida. The fire is being managed as the Honey Prairie Complex under the unified command of…
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