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Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 69-74 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, according to tournament angler Clint Brownlee. The postspawn pattern is picking up on the lake. Clint recommends a handful of lures that will catch bass in May. The fish will stage on grassbeds and trees as they gradually migrate back out to main-lake points…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: Down 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 70s. Clarity: Clear on main lake; slight stain in some of the creeks. Bass: Good numbers, but most are smaller spotted bass, said Dennis Hudson. “Fish are in all stages of the spawn right now,” Dennis said. He has been catching some fish tight…
Allatoona: Level: Up 0.2 feet above full pool. Temp: 70-72 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Good for numbers. The bite for quality bass has been fair, said guide Mike Bucca. “The spots are being finicky. Some days they are busting shad from the backs to the mouths of coves, some days they aren’t. Just keep…
Russell: Level: 0.2 feet above full pool. Temp: High 50s in the mornings, low 60s on warm afternoons. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, said tournament angler Trad Whaley. Trad and his father finished seventh in the Hwy 72 Marine tournament March 15 with 12.8 pounds. They caught bass on spinnerbaits in the trees, and they found…
West Point: Level: 2.3 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: Light stain on the main lake. Heavy stain in the creeks. Muddy upriver. Bass: Very good. “Largemouth and spotted bass are really close to spawning,” said guide Paul Parsons. “Good baits to use are split-shot-rigged lizards, Trick Worms and Super Flukes. Try lighter…
Weiss: Level: 1.4 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 50s. Clarity: The main lake is clear, the backs of the creeks and the Coosa are stained. Bass: Good, said Weiss fishing guide Mark Collins. “The bass are in the shallows back in the bays around secondary points and ditches. There have been good catches from…
Tobesofkee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 58-62 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Good. “The key to having a good bag this time of year is finding the big females that haven’t moved up to spawn yet,” Clayton Batts said. “There are a lot of buck bass moving up in the 1- to 3-foot range around grass, wood…
Sinclair: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low to mid 60s. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Good. Eliminator Elite-8 angler Mike Cleveland said there’s a good spinnerbait bite at Sinclair right now from halfway back to the backs of the pockets. He said there are a lot of fish on the beds right now, and they should continue coming…
Seminole: Level: 0.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 64. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Great. “There was a really early spawn this year at Seminole,” said tournament angler Butch Tucker. “They were on the sandbars three or four weeks early. Right now there are fish in the spawn, the prespawn and postspawn.” Butch said a watermelon-gold lizard…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin said the trout bite is getting better, and sight fishing for redfish has been good. David fishes out of the St. Catherines area. “The water temperature this morning (March 21) was 64 degrees,” David said. “Most of the live shrimp we’re getting are almost too big to fish with. If…
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