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Fishing Reports
Clarks Hill: Level: 3.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 69-75 degrees. Clarity: Clear on the main lake; light stain in the upper ends and up Georgia’s Little River. Bass: Excellent. Dale Gibbs reports, “Clarks Hill has been red hot now for about a month. Largemouths are still chasing herring on major river-channel points the first…
Chatuge: Level: 0.9 feet above full pool. Temp: Low 70s. Clarity: Very clear. Bass: Excellent. John Hembry said a win at the night tournaments going on right now takes 14 or 15 pounds, and the vast majority of the fish are spotted bass. The big fish has been averaging 3 or 4 pounds. “The fish…
Carters: Level: 0.3 feet above full pool. Temp: 70 degrees. Clarity: The lower end of the lake is clear; it’s a little stained on the north end. Bass: Zack Foster reports, “May is always a great month for fishing, but it tends to taper off toward the end. I caught a lot of fish early…
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: High 60s to low 70s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. The fish are in a postspawn pattern, with Flukes and swimbaits catching some good spotted bass early on main-lake points. Big spots in the 5- to 6-lb. range can be caught on big swimbaits like a Strike King Shadilicious. The spots…
Blue Ridge: Level: 0.2 feet above full pool. Temp: 68 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. The morning topwater bite is good for smallmouths and spots right now, said guide Nathan Lewis. “This is the best lake I’ve ever fished for breaking fish,” he said. “If they’re breaking, they’ll hit whatever you throw at them.” Look…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 69 to 73 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Good. “There are a lot of small fish being caught, but the big fish over the last couple of months have been 4 or 5 pounds,” said Ernie Broughton. “It’s been a weird year. We never really did see any big fish bedding.”…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: Full pool. Temp: 77 degrees. Clarity: Muddy in the creeks; good stain on the main lake. Bass: Fair. Dennis Hudson reports, “We’re still catching fish, but we aren’t catching the good ones like we were,” he said. The postspawn lull has kicked in, but the bite should pick up in June. However,…
Allatoona: Level: 0.9 feet above full pool. Temp: 69 degrees: Clarity: Clear. Bass: Excellent. Mike Bucca reports, “The spawn is over, and the postspawn bite and shad spawn are in full swing. The fish are moving out of the creeks and heading toward the main lake. Most secondary and main-lake points are full of fish.…
When DNR enforcement officers began looking closer at two men charged with turkey-related violations in south Georgia, it sparked an investigation that could bust up wide-spread illegal-hunting activities in and around Dodge and Laurens counties. On April 18, Ranger Johnny Ashe charged William Stacy Jones, of Eastman, with possession of illegally taken wildlife and hunting…
On April 3, Eastanollee’s Terry McConnell caught a Lake Russell striper that pulled a set of certified propane scales to 63 1/4 pounds. That translates to 63-lbs., 4-ozs., which would beat the current Georgia state record. However, because the scales did not read in 1-oz. graduations, Georgia DNR may not accept Terry’s fish as the…
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