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Fishing Reports
Eufaula: Level: Full pool. Temp: Mid 40s. Clarity: Clear to heavy stain. Bass: Slow. The bite has been tough, according to Capt. Sam Williams, of S&K Outdoors in Eufaula. “Bass are hitting very slow due to the inclement weather. Very slow presentations are the only way to generate a strike. Slow-rolling spinnerbaits on submerged tree…
Clarks Hill: Level: 6.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 45 degrees. Clarity: Clear with a normal stain up the rivers. Bass: Tough. Capt. Dale Gibbs reports, “Fishing for largemouths has been pretty difficult due to recent cold fronts. However, I have found some success fishing 5 to 10 feet deep with crankbaits. It seems fish…
Chatuge: Level: 6.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 41 to 43 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. Eric Welch, of Reel Job Fishing, reports, “This time of year I like to fish slow and pick the laydowns and brushpiles apart with a Strike King 3/8-oz. jig in black/brown/amber. You can also catch fish using a shaky…
Carters: Level: 2.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 43 to 45 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Louie Bartenfield reports, “Fishing has gotten tough. Everything I’ve been catching is deep to super deep (40 to 80 feet). Most fish are suspended around bait. Most of the bait is 60 to 100 feet deep in the creeks.…
Blue Ridge: Level: 65 feet below full pool. Temp: 39 to 41 degrees. Clarity: Partly clear to stained. Bass: Tough. Eric Welch, of Reel Job Fishing, reports, “Some fish can be caught on float-n-fly off the bends of what used to be a point, and if you can find any rock. But the best pattern…
Blackshear: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 48 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Slow. Jim Murray Jr. reports, “With the cold weather, the bite has been slow. CBT finesse jigs and medium-diving crankbaits have been producing the few bites. As the weather warms, look for areas on a north bank where the sun is shining…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 40s. Clarity: Pretty clear. Bass: Fair. Dennis Hudson said a few weeks ago there had been a pretty good crankbait bite on windy, rocky banks in Halawakee Creek. It wasn’t tough to get bit on a Fat Free Shad in sexy shad. However, all that changed with the…
Allatoona: Level: 13.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 39 to 41 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Craig Miller at the Dugout said with the extreme cold water temperatures there is a tremendous shad kill on the lake. “The best technique is still the float-n-fly. Use a 12- to 14-foot leader, and fish steep banks and…
Darkness was approaching fast. With 30 minutes of light, I had to make a change. I only killed one of the two squirrels I’d seen during an evening stalk on an Altamaha River water oak flat. With no wind, temperature near 50, and a cold windy front the next day, squirrel activity should have…
The chill of winter puts far too many anglers on the sidelines. Some of the biggest and most impressive stringers of fish you will ever see are caught in early February while air and water temperatures are at their lowest. My advice is to put on plenty of clothes and strike out to Lake…
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