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Fishing Reports
Carters: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: Clear to slight stain. Bass: Good. Guide Louie Bartenfield reports, “Numbers on my trips are averaging 15 to 25 spots and some days a handful of hybrids, stripers and whites. I’m fishing 15 to 40 feet deep around ditches and creek mouths. Points will produce a few…
Blue Ridge: Level: 61.8 feet below full pool. Boating access limited to the low-water ramp, located a quarter-mile off the point at Blue Ridge Marina. Boating travel limited from dam to Marker 6. Temp: 57 to 60 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Slow. Bob Borgwat, of Reel Angling Adventures, reports, “The low water seems to have…
Blackshear: Level: 4 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 60s. Clarity: Clear; 2-foot visibility. Bass: Good. Jason Bryan, winner of the Blackshear Buddies Nov. 20 tournament with 17.7 pounds, caught a lunker 7.7-pounder that hit a DT10, CBT shad-pattern crankbait. Jason reports, “The bass are moving with the shad this month as usual. In the…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 60-64 degrees. Clarity: Clear green. Bass: Pretty good. Dennis Hudson said the bite has picked up since his Saturday tournaments out of Halawaka Creek began in mid November. The fish are schooled up a little bit and chasing small shad around the points and secondary points…
Allatoona: Level: 7.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 55-60 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain on the north end of the lake; clear from Victoria south. Bass: Excellent. Mike Bucca reports, “Fishing is starting to pick up and become more predictable with the cooler water temps. Lots of baits are working right now. Swimbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits and…
From drag rags and rattling antlers to stand placement and climbing high, there are a myriad of strategies when it comes to hunting the rut. Who should you listen to? If it were me, I’d be real curious how the guys who killed good ones last year put their heavy-racked, rut-crazed bucks in the dirt.…
The old tree-planting axiom goes like this: The best time to plant an oak tree was 30 years ago. But the second best time is today. For anyone with land who would like to plant hardwoods or fruit trees for wildlife, ArborGen has expanded their hardwood seedling inventory with trees you can use to improve…
In this age of instant information from emails and text messages, it’s common for the folks at the GON office to receive lots of photos of giant bucks supposedly killed in Georgia. Most are photos we’ve seen dozens of times of bucks actually from Kansas, Texas or some other state. We don’t get overly excited…
While fishing a private pond in Cobb County on Sept. 30, Phillip Walker III, of Marietta, caught a bass that he reported as having two mouths. A bass with two mouths? The news certainly had my attention, so I met with Phillip to see the fish firsthand. The fish actually has a second jaw that…
Fishing is big business in Georgia, and it’s about to get even bigger. Gov. Sonny Perdue cut the celebratory ribbon at the official dedication of the Go Fish Education Center in Perry on Thursday, Oct. 7, with a host of many community leaders and supporters. Developed as part of the Go Fish Georgia Initiative, the…
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