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Fishing Reports
Weiss: Level: 3.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 80 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is clear. Bass: Good. According to Lake Weiss guide Jerry Sims you can catch fish a lot of different ways right now. The topwater bite has been good on Zara Spooks, Boy Howdys and buzzbaits, he said. Use the slower Spook…
Sinclair: Level: 0.9 feet low. Temp: 83-84 degrees. Clarity: Fairly stained. Bass: Good. In October Aaron Batson likes banging dock posts with a chartreuse/blue-backed Bandit 200 crankbait. “It’s a wood thing,” said Aaron. “Fish move back to the secondary points and get on blowdowns and docks.” Look for a grass bite early. Aaron will throw…
Seminole: Level: 0.9 feet low. Temp: 82 degrees. Clarity: The creek is clear, the lake is light stain. Bass: Fair. “The frog bite is starting to pick up,” said Butch Tucker. “It has been tough for the last four weeks. Throw the frog first thing in the morning, and after that it’s a matter of…
Saltwater: Inshore: Good. The creeks are full of nice shrimp right now, so you can catch your own bait if you can throw a cast net. Capt. Greg Hildreth, fishing out of the St. Simons area, prefers artificials for redfish, and he’s getting plenty of action on soft jerkbaits. He’s catching some nice trout on…
Nottely: Level: 8.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 73-74 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. A mid-September tournament on the lake was won with more than 14 pounds. Spinnerbaits or flukes around blowdowns, stumps and shallow brush is a good pattern early in the day. After the sun comes up back off to brush in the…
Oconee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 77-78 degrees. Clarity: Mostly clear; light stain in some creeks. Bass: Fair. If you’ll chunk and wind first thing in the morning, you might call up a 4-lb. largemouth on top — but the topwater isn’t producing numbers yet. Try a Pop-R or a Spittin’ Image along rock and wood…
Lanier: Level: Down 9.1 feet below full pool. Temps: 74-76 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Spotted Bass: Fair and improving. Other than some early topwater action off main-lake points and islands, it’s been a deep-water specialist’s lake for a while, but guide and tournament pro Ryan Coleman says more fish are already moving shallow. For the deep…
Jackson: Level: Down 1.3 feet. Temp: 82 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Mike Meason won a Delta tournament with 11 pounds. “We fished shallow concrete seawalls with Flukes, Sammys, Pop-Rs and lead-head Trick Worms,” said Mike. “Then we’d fish the closest obvious structure, whether that was a point or dock.” Aaron Batson said if he…
Hartwell: Level: 5.9 feet below full pool. Temp: 78 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Terry Whitworth was on the lake September 22 throwing topwater plugs and in a couple of hours caught a 5-lb. largemouth and three other bass in the 2 1/2- to 3-lb. range. He was fishing down the lake with Spooks, Flukes…
Eufaula: Level: 2.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 81 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: Great. Butch Tucker said most of the bass have stayed shallow all year, but the bite will intensify as the water cools. “The frog bite will be good early in the grass,” said Butch. “Buzzbaits, spinnerbaits — they’ll be good, too.…
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