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Fishing Reports
Carters: Level: 3 feet above full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tough fishing, according to Danny Hall. Fish points early with a buzzbait or Pop-R, but after that look for fish suspended over brushpiles in 25 to 30 feet of water. Use a shaky head or drop shot with a watermelon seed, green…
Burton: Level: 0.1 feet above full pool. Temp: Low to mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow, but you can catch some good fish, said Daniel Workman. The lake has gotten so busy on the weekends that it’s not even worth fishing. But if you can get out during the week there has been a decent…
Blue Ridge: Level: 1.1 feet below full pool. Temp: High 70s and warming. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tough. Nathan Stuart said Blue Ridge has been tough. If you can’t catch them schooling in the mornings and evenings, catching a good string of fish can be tough, he said. Early and late, look for fish breaking on…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 70s. Clarity: Good stain. Bass: Good. Wayne Geoff caught a new tournament-record sack July 18 with a 27-lb., 12-oz. limit anchored by the big fish which weighed 7-lbs., 9-ozs. Ernie Broughton said there has been a decent topwater bite over treetops, around grassbeds and lily pads with popping baits like…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid to high 80s. Clarity: Clear up the river; light stain on main lake. Bass: Fair to good. Dennis Hudson said most bites depend on a good current. Way up in the shoals on the river, the guys who have boats that can make it that…
Allatoona: Level: 0.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 82-85 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Guide Mike Bucca said topwater fishing is good at first light, with lots of whites and hybrids chasing bait as well. “Lots of people are throwing popping corks with flies on the back, but the 5-inch Bull Shad from Nature’s Tackle…
West Point: Level: 0.2 feet above full pool. Temp: Low 80s. Clarity: Clear on the main lake; stained in the creeks; stained up the Chattahoochee. Bass: Good. Ken Bearden said the bass are between patterns right now. He said there are still a few fish up shallow, and some have moved out onto the ledges…
Weiss: Level: 0.3 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Slightly stained. Bass: Very good. Guide Warren Barnes reports, “Bass fishing has been great. I have been catching both largemouths and spots in and around grass and seawalls during the early hours, and then flipping docks and fishing creek ledges after the sun gets…
Tobesofkee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 86-88 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Clayton Batts reports, “Bass are in their summer pattern right now around docks and on deep-water humps and points. Fish deeper docks where the channel sweeps in on them with a green-pumpkin or red-bug Big Bite Baits Biobait finesse worm. The fish will be on…
Sinclair: Level: 0.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 85 degrees. Clarity: Stained up the Oconee and Little rivers but clear in Rooty Creek. Bass: Mike Cleveland reports that a 13 1/2-lb. sack was the top Sinclair bag from more than 100 boats fishing the Berry’s Classic two weeks ago. “They’re not biting worth nothing,” said…
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