Posts by Nick Carter
Atlanta Shoal Bass Fishing On The Chattahoochee
With dog-day, afternoon temperatures peaking at about 100 degrees, Atlanta’s scorching black asphalt reaches temperatures suitable for frying an egg almost every day of the summer. During an afternoon thunder-shower, rainwater runs over these impermeable surfaces, leaching heat off the blacktop before flowing directly into the Chattahoochee River. This amounts to a death sentence for…
Read MoreBig Bucks Of The North Georgia Mountain
From trout fishing to bear hunting, the north Georgia mountains are well known for many things — deer hunting is not one of them. But there are a couple of hunters up in Gilmer County who make mockery of the low hunter-success ratios year after year on mountain WMAs. They hold many of the top…
Read MoreBrook Trout Are Georgia’s Native Gems
“And I thought bass fishermen were secretive about their favorite fishing holes,” was what I thought as I swallowed back the bile working its way up my throat. For those prone to motion sickness, being blindfolded is not the best way to ride in the back of a vehicle careening up a gravel mountain road,…
Read MoreHartwell Stripers Top To Bottom In June
With wind-blown chop rocking the surface of Lake Hartwell, close attention was necessary to keep up with the commotion made by a white stickbait being ripped as quickly and erratically as possible across the surface. For an instant it was lost from sight behind a whitecap, before emerging on the face of the wave with…
Read MoreBartletts Ferry Crappie Bonanza
With big, fast boats and sophisticated electronics becoming the norm for anglers on Georgia’s lakes today, it’s refreshing and reassuring to find fishermen who don’t need an arsenal of expensive equipment to catch fish. And, while there is little doubt that the gadgetry provides an advantage for those who can afford it, there is still…
Read MoreSpawning Carp On A Fly Rod
Nine times out of 10, when someone reels in a carp in the state of Georgia, the landing is followed by the phrase, “Aw, it’s just a (insert expletive here) dirty ol’ carp.” But, there is a small contingent of anglers in the state who hold this hearty invasive in high esteem. They value the…
Read MoreWorking Hard For Little Trout, Loving Every Minute
“And miles to go before I sleep.” The closing words from one of the writings of Robert Frost continued to work their way through my mind as we trudged through a blistering April snowstorm up the Penitentiary Branch Trail. Topping a ridge, a strong wind rocked the treetops, and I was forced to hike with…
Read MoreHartwell Crappie Overlooked And Under-Fished
With 56,000 acres of surface water and a wealth of linesides and largemouths, Hartwell may be known as a striper and hybrid fishery, as well as a great place for topwater bass explosions in the spring. But one thing that is often overlooked on this large lake on the Georgia/South Carolina border is the crappie…
Read MoreGobbler Leaves Nothing Left To Prove For Teen Hunter
At the ripe old age of 14, there’s not a whole lot left for Keenan Adams to achieve in the world of turkey hunting — he’s just about done it all. Actually, most folks would say he had just about done it all back in 2003, when at 9 years old he became the youngest…
Read MoreDodging Linesides For Sinclair Crappie
For Richard Saunders, any time he can be on the water is the best time to be crappie fishing on Sinclair, but through the winter months, while he is trolling heavy jigs in deep water, he is thinking about March, when the water temperatures begin to rise and the crappie move shallow. His favorite way…
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