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Fishing
Over the years, Craig Miller, of Canton, has taken an annual trip to fish Dale Hollow Reservoir in Tennessee. Craig and his family meet there to go after the big smallmouth bass. Most years he’d head up in early spring, but about eight years ago, he made the trip in the dead of winter. On…
Levi Garrett trudged through the thick privet hedges on the outskirts of the swamp bottom, an enormous array of 10 incredibly tall and almost perfectly symmetrical dark brown tines weighing heavily on his drooping head. On a cold, clear day, gunshots rang out around the county, and the sounds of thumping hooves and vocal deer…
Tired of running all over big lakes and burning gas while trying to catch bass? For a change, try High Falls Lake, a small state-park lake between Griffin and Jackson, where the bass feed heavily in December, and you can land some quality fish. High Falls is a 650-acre lake located a few miles east…
Last fall, a rainstorm came that kept the pigs pinned to the same sorghum plot Jeff McCrackin had seen them in the day before. When he and his 8-year-old stepson Lane returned at daybreak, the field was still full of pork. They scanned the black pack of feeding squealers for a few minutes, passing over…
The mature doe cautiously exited the Oglethorpe County clearcut and trotted toward the bottom of a deep ravine. Six other antlerless deer and a small 4-pointer followed her. The whole group hesitated before entering another thick cutover. I picked out the leader, converted her to tablefare, bolted in another cartridge and dropped the second largest…
A dream came true for coon-hound handler Ross Jackson, of Madison, when owner Mary Simpson, of Farmington, told him to go get the best dog he could find. “She told me to find the one I wanted to win with, and we bought him,” said Ross. The result of his search was a 5-year-old, male,…
West Point: Level: 1.9 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: Heavily stained, but clearing. Bass: Good. Micah Frazier said the largemouths should be up shallow following the shad and busting bait in the backs of the pockets. He said now is a good time to target them with numerous baits, from shallow-running crankbaits…
Weiss: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 50s to low 60s. Clarity: Muddy. Bass: Good. Warren Barnes reports, “All the recent heavy rains, muddy water and warm weather have the bass biting. I am catching good fish around the wood and rocks back in the creeks using Revenge spinnerbaits and also throwing Jackall…
Tobesofkee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 64-66 degrees. Clarity: Muddy. Bass: Fair. Clayton Batts reports, “The bite is tough with the water being so muddy, but the bass have followed the bait to the backs of the pockets. Throw a white/chartreuse or all chartreuse spinnerbait with double Colorado blades or an Aruku Shad Jr. in chrome/blue…
Sinclair: Level: 0.2 feet below full. Temp: 59 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Fishing is fair, according to Eric Perkins. “Look for the crankbait bite to continue on in December,” said Eric. “Small crankbaits like a No. 5 and a No. 7 firetiger Shad Rap are hard to beat. Also the the Rat-L-Trap bite and the…
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