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Fishing Reports
Hartwell: Level: 1 foot below full pool. Temp: Low 70s, some warmer water back in stained creeks. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Hartwell’s famous Spooks & Flukes bite is under way. The run-and-gun pattern on main-lake points, humps and reef markers was made famous by Hartwell fishing guide Mark Waller — and he is still catching fish…
West Point: Level: 1.7 feet below full. Temp: 72 degrees. Clarity: Clear on the main lake, stained upriver. Bass: Guide Paul Parsons said the water temperature is just right, and the new moon should have the big females on the bed. Some anglers are reporting seeing some bedding fish. Paul thinks most fish will be…
Russell: Level 1.3 feet below full pool. Temps: 72 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good with most fish quickly moving off the beds and settling into a postspawn pattern that should last until the end of May. Early try topwater plugs on secondary points. As the sun gets on the water, continue to fish secondary points,…
Weiss: Level: .5 feet below full pool. Temp: 76 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is clear, the Coosa is dingy. Bass: Fair. Lake Weiss fishing guide Mark Collins said the bass spawn is winding down. “I have seen a few bass guarding balls of fry,” he said. Mark said the grassbeds are just beginning to…
Sinclair: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 70 degrees. Clarity: Stained up the river, Rooty Creek is pretty clear. Bass: Great. Jim Windham said May is when it gets real critical that you’re on the water right at daylight. The shad will be spawning, and the mayfly hatch should bust loose by the middle…
Seminole: Level: 2.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 78-80 degrees. Clarity: Chattahoochee is slightly stained. The main lake is clear. Bass: Butch Tucker said the spawn was about done at the end of April. Now is the time when Seminole’s bass will head back to their summer haunts, which means it’s time to throw topwater…
Oconee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 74 degrees. Clarity: Lightly stained, but a good Oconee color. Bass: Good. The shad spawn is going on right now, but it’s been spotty. Many anglers feel that there’s so much seawall rip-rap on the lake now that it’s harder to find spawning shad — they can and will do…
Nottely: Level: 12.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 69-71 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Jerry at Jerry’s Bait & Tackle said there had been good catches of spots and largemouths at Nottely recently. The largemouth fishing is best back in the pockets around any wood structure. The fish were still bedding at the end of April.…
Lanier: Level: 1.4 feet below full pool. Temps: Ranging from 68 to 74 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Very good, according to guide and tournament pro Ryan Coleman. “Most of the spots and largemouths have spawned now and are on their way out to the main water and starting to feed. I’m having good luck with…
Jackson: Level: Down .75 feet. Temp: 74 degrees. Clarity: It was clear, but the upper reaches of the three rivers are a litte stained. Bass: Good. Look for bass to pull out this month, and you can catch them on points between the main lake and the spawning areas where a channel swings in, according…
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