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Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 58 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is still a bit stained; creeks are beginning to clear. Bass: Clint Brownlee reports: “My partner Jimmy Sharp and friend Brian Davis won the last Ernie’s tournament on Blackshear with around 12 pounds. Most of their bites come on Rat-L-Traps and crankbaits, shad and…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.8 feet above full pool. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Good stain in some of the creeks, decent stain on the main river. Bass: “It’s slowing. The numbers are down, but there are still some good fish being caught,” said Dennis Hudson, whose tournaments are taking 12- to 15-lb. sacks to win. Dennis…
Allatoona: Level: 13.9 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-52 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear; except for stained water moving down the Etowah arm. Bass: Fair. Guide Mike Bucca reports slow action on the south end because of a lack of baitfish, but the north end from the dam up the Etowah arm is better. “The best…
I have been trying to get my daughter Sabrina a deer for quite a while now. Sabrina is now 16 years old. She has been fishing and hunting with me since she was a toddler. I remember when I was stationed at Fort Knox, Ken., strapping her into a car seat in the Jeep and…
The north Georgia mountains are more likely to be equated with trout fishing than gigantic largemouths, but the cold, clear waters have created some California-style bass fishing on the 53-acre Unicoi Lake at Unicoi State Park, and a pair of Cleveland buddies has figured out how to catch them. On Oct. 22, Levi Garrett landed…
If a group of saltwater anglers and guides has its way, the red drum — Georgia’s state saltwater fish — will soon have the distinction of being the state’s first saltwater game fish. Mike Duckworth of Brunswick, along with well-known light-tackle guides, Capt. Greg Hildreth of Brunswick and Capt. Scott Wagner of Savannah, are spearheading…
After 12 months of cranking, worming, doodling and burning, the Big Bear Fishing Rods Power Rankings are complete. Partial lists for the Individual and Team Power Rankings are on these two pages, but a complete list of both lists are at <www.gon.com>. Individual Power Rankings: David Millsaps of Ranger won the 2008 Individual Power Rankings…
We heard from our Hunt Advisor Team. We talked to hunters from across the state on a daily basis throughout the season. And we’re still a bit baffled as to what went on in the deer woods. Plenty of great Georgia bucks were killed, but in general there seemed to be more perplexed hunters than…
Dragging jigs down steep banks… dead-sticking a worm on a flat… twitching a hard jerkbait in open water… pulling a buzzbait by a dock… dropping a jigging spoon 50 feet deep below shad… punching a plastic craw through vegetation. What do these varied presentations have in common? They are all methods I have used to…
A cold front blew through the mountain forest, rippling the saplings in the old hardwood clearcut and shearing the last of summer’s leaves from the trees. On the other side of the ridge, just out of sight, Buck searched the wind for scents, his collar bell jingling closer as he nosed sticky blackberry thickets and…
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