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Fishing Reports
Blue Ridge: Level: 13.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 48- 50-degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The largemouths aren’t hitting, and the smallmouths have slacked off, too, said fishing guide Nathan Lewis. Nathan says your best bet in January is a jigging spoon and go deep. Nathan has been fishing a 6/10-oz. Flex-it in chartreuse/white, white…
Hartwell: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-52 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Stripers/Hybrids: Off and on. Fishing guide Buster Green says you can catch eight or 10 stripers or hybrids on live bluebacks, but you have to work for them. “The bait has moved back in the creeks, and the stripers and hybrids have moved…
Marben Farms PFA: Level: All ponds are full. Clarity: Clear, visibility in all of the ponds is more 36 inches. Temp: 52 degrees. Bass: A few bass are still being taken in deeper water, mostly with plastic worms. Also try deep-running crankbaits fished near structure along the submerged creek channels. Crappie: Crappie fishing is picking…
West Point: Level: 6.3 feet below full. Temp: 42-45 degrees. Clarity: Slightly stained in places. Mostly clear on the main lake. Bass: The spots will be in the deep timber in January. Drop a jigging spoon down right on top of the standing timber along creek and river channels. Use your electronics to see how…
Weiss: Level: 5.7 feet below full pool — much of the lake is down to the channels, and the lower lake is extremely dangerous. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: The Coosa is stained, the main lake is clear. Bass: Kevin Randall said that the only thing he would have tied on with the lake so low…
Sinclair: Level: The lake was down 5.5 feet in December, but it will start being filled back to full pool on January 1. Temp: 51-54 degrees. Beaverdam Creek has been in the 60s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Great. Reports of good stringers have come from Sinclair this month after it was drawn down for dock repairs.…
Seminole: Level: 0.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 61 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Jack Wingate said crankbaits are the thing on Seminole right now. “We had a boat go out on December 20, and he caught nine bass on crankbaits, including two over six pounds,” Jack said. Throw crankbaits around grass lines. The Mann’s Deep…
Saltwater: Inshore: Though fewer folks go after sea trout this time of year, Capt. Greg Hildreth said the trout fishing is very good. “We’ve had mild weather this month. The water temperature is still 60 degrees, which is perfect for trout. They’re just beginning to move to the deep holes,” Greg said. Last weekend a…
Nottely: Level: 14.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 47 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow, according to Ronnie McDonald. “The fish were up shallow a couple of weeks ago, but they have been pulling water and the fish have moved off the banks,” he said. A bass tournament in mid December was won with 12 1/2…
Oconee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 49 to 50 degrees. Clarity: Stained in the main river run throughout the lake, Richland is mostly clear. Bass: The fishing has ranged from fair to excellent, depending on the day. A lot of good bass were caught shallow in the past two weeks. Running the docks posts with a…
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