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Fishing Reports
Carters: Level: 2.7 feet below full. Temp: 45-48 degrees. Clarity: About 6 feet visibility. Linesides: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “March is a tricky month for a fishing prediction. Depending on how February plays out weather wise, March can be full-blown spring, or it can be a repeat of a cold, windy February. With the lake…
Burton: Level: 5.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 42 degrees. Clarity: 7-foot visibility.Bass: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The largemouth bite is good on the warmer days. Try fishing flats or ledges. Most of the fish we have caught have been big—5 to 7 pounds. The 1/2-oz. herring-colored Super Spin tipped with a white-pearl Zoom Paddle…
Blue Ridge: Level: 11.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 45 degrees. Clarity: Main lake is clear; river is a little stained. Bass: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “Blue Ridge really starts to come alive in March. Look for all the bass species to start to make the move up shallower and start to orient themselves on…
Blackshear: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 49-51 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Tournament angler and guide Jimmie Troxell did our Map-of-the-Month article on Blackshear for March. “Bass move into the spawning areas in waves, starting in late February,” Jimmie said. You can go into these areas and look for fish on the bed, while…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 47 degrees. Clarity: River is mostly clear. Bass: “The bass are going to be in their prespawn mode during March,” said tournament director Dennis Hudson. “You’ve got to drag a lot of slow plastics like shaky heads, Texas-rigs and finesse worms. They’ll start out on the…
Allatoona: Level: 8.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 42 degrees but changing by the minute, according to striper guide Robert Eidson. Clarity: Visibility 2 to 3 feet. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver said he’ll be looking for bass to be on the move this month as they begin to head toward their spawning grounds. During…
West Point: Level: 6.1 feet below full. Temp: 46-50 degrees. Clarity: Stained.Bass: Fair. Guide Keith Hudson reports, “As long as the weather remains cold and the lake continues to drop and clear up, expect the bass, especially spots, to stay stacked up on deeper structures such as humps, ledges, roadbeds and brushpiles in at least…
Weiss: Level: 5.7 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid to upper 40s. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Fair. Guide Mark Collins reports, “Bass have moved back to the old creek and river channel ledges. Carolina-rigged plastics, Texas-rigged Senko worms and jigs are producing well right now. The ledges in Little River and the Chattooga River are producing…
Sinclair: Level: 1.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 43-48 degrees. Clarity: Light to heavy stain.Bass: Fair. Tournament fisherman Aaron Batson reports, “Numbers of fish are hard to come by, but quality has been good. You have to slow way down for bites with the cold water temps. Net Boy Baits jigs have been working well,…
Seminole: Level: 0.2 feet above full pool. Temp. 51-54 degrees. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Tournament pro Matt Baty reports, “Bass are biting but are in tight schools and are a little hard to find. Look for areas on the main lake that are close to deep water and have good grass present. A lipless crankbait is hard…
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