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Fishing Reports
Blue Ridge: Level: Down 15.7 feet. Temp: 42-45 degrees: Clarity: Good; 3 to 6 feet. Bass: Eric Crowley reports, “Main lake is where the best action is for smallies. Look for dead baitfish to find the fish. Small baits like white-ice-and-silver colored Zoom Flukes, Smack Tackle Flitter Baits in white and black back, or even…
Blackshear: Level: 0.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 44-46 degrees. Clarity: Muddy. Bass: Fair. Ernie Broughton said springs are key to his February bassing on Blackshear. They provide good flowing water that is normally warmer and clearer than the body of the lake. Also, with the abundant rains, good current in the creeks can make…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 40s. Clarity: Good stain. Bass: Tough. With the cold weather and frigid water temperatures, Bartletts has been tough of recent, said Dennis Hudson. The flood gates have finally closed, and generation schedules have gone back to normal, changing the pattern from what was working when…
Allatoona: Level: 10.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 38 to 47 degrees. Clarity: Stained to muddy. Bass: Slow. Mike Bucca reports, “Fishing is tough on Allatoona. The Etowah arm is fishing very hard now. We had ice on almost the entire north end of the lake, and not much fishing was done. We also had…
For the serious trout angler, nothing much compares to hooking and landing a wild trout. Most purists would rather land a small wild fish over a large stocked fish especially if they had to work harder for it. A case in point is anglers hiking deep into the hills to fish the headwaters of a…
Opening morning of the 2009 turkey season had arrived, and I couldn’t think of a time when I was more eager to start the season. I had scouted the area I would be hunting a couple of days earlier and had found four mature gobblers and a wad of hens roosting on the edge of…
The sound of a dog barking rang loudly through the mixed hardwoods on top of a mountain ridge in north Georgia. A sure sign to Bob Thomas, of Morganton, that his black mountain cur, Moe, had just treed a squirrel and was waiting on him. Carrying a .17 HMR rifle with a high-quality scope, Bob…
January isn’t normally a time you’d think of bass boats zooming back and forth across the lake trying to win the big tournament of the weekend. But, there are still a few anglers who put all other passions aside and are determined to catch fish 365 days of the year. Regardless of the frigid, wintry…
In December, a rumor reached GON that biologists with WRD were meeting to discuss the possibility of allowing dog hunting for bears in north Georgia. There was a bear meeting at Dawson Forest on Dec. 8, but the impetus for the meeting may have been the opposite of what the rumor suggested. Region I Supervisor…
An arrest has been made in the Fayette County horse shooting. Jeremy Ryan Richardson, 17, of Fayette County, was arrested Jan. 7 on 14 counts of game-and-fish violations, in addition to an aggravated cruelty to animals charge for shooting a Fayette County horse on Jan. 3 with three arrows. “He actually came in to speak…
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