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Fishing Reports
Oconee: Level: Down 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 86-90 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear, except for a light stain up the rivers. Bass: Right now the bass are still hard on summer patterns, and it’s generally been slow. Try main-lake points and humps that have brushpiles, and fish them with Carolina-rigged Trick Worms in green…
Russell: Level: Down 0.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 88 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The daytime bite is painful — it’s even tough to catch a bass on the bridge pilings right now. You can catch a few fish bass on crankbaits on the humps, or head down the lake and try to catch…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Jack McGowan of Miss Judy Charters said the fishing has been good despite hot, humid days and pop-up thunderstorms that have muddied the water. Lots of small summer trout about 12 inches in length are showing on the sandbars. Capt. Judy Helmey also reports good action the past weekend (August 25) near…
Allatoona: Level: Down 8.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 88-90 degrees. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Good, according to guide Mike Bucca. He reports lots of schooling at first light. “The spots and hybrids are taking Sammy 100s and Gun Fish 95s. When they go down, a 1-oz. white spoon will do the trick. Keep one eye on…
Seminole: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: High 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. The summer pattern continues, said Steve Holt. Frogs fished on hydrilla mats or buzzbaits or Pop-Rs fished around deep grass points early in the morning can produce topwater bites. Once the morning bite ends, standing timber in 16 feet of water…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: Full pool. Temp: Mid to high 80s. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Fair. Dennis Hudson said the bite at the shoals upriver is producing well for anglers who have jet boats. David and Paul Booth won the Tuesday-night tournament on August 21 with a bag weighing more than 15 pounds. They had two fish that…
Sinclair: Level: 1.4 feet below full. Temp: 89 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, said tournament fisherman Jim Windham. He took second in a recent Berry’s tournament on Sinclair fishing ledges in 15-23 feet of water. He also took the big fish, which weighed a little better than 7 pounds. Jim said most of his bites…
Blackshear: Level: 0.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 90 degrees. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Slow. Brian Davis said a night tournament August 24 was won with a five-fish limit that weighed just under 8 pounds. “I think what happens this time of year is that the fish pull off the banks out to the stumps along the…
Weiss: Level: 6.4 feet below full. Temp: 90 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Larry at J.R.’s Marina said the lake is at winter pool already, but the lake level is expected to continue to drop — possibly going down 4 more feet if there are no significant rains. The bass fishing continues to be fair…
Blue Ridge: Level: 9.2 feet below full pool. Temp: Low to mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Mark Keaton says he hears that others are doing well catching smallmouths on rocky main-lake points with tube jigs and drop-shot rigs — but he’s not. “I haven’t been able to get on the smallmouths,” he said. He…
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