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Fishing Reports
Oconee: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50 to 53 degrees. Clarity: Stained, with the clearest water in the Richland Creek arm. Bass: Stained water and warm temperatures this week should suck more and more bass shallow, according to tournament angler Aaron Batson. “A lot of guys are still throwing the small crankbaits, but spinnerbaits and Rat-L-Traps…
Nottely: Level: Down 15 feet below full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Striper/Hybrids: On a mid-February trip to Nottely, John Hembree said he caught about 20 hybrids and stripers up to about six pounds. “I have been catching them on a little 1/2-oz. white/chartreuse bucktail,” said John. “Flukes will work, but we are catching…
Lanier: Level: 1.6 feet below full pool. Temps: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear, except some color in the backs of creeks up the lake. Spotted Bass: Plenty of healthy spots in the 2- to 4-lb. range are being caught. While a lot of spotted bass are still in the deep brush and structure, the jerkbait bite…
Jackson: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Slight stain on the main lake, muddy in the Yellow and South rivers. Bass: Fair. The end of February and first of March is usually good on a shallow-rock pattern with small crankbaits on rip-rap, seawalls, bridge pilings, chunk rock or pea-gravel banks. Red-clay banks are also…
Clarks Hill: Level: Full pool. Temp: 52-54 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, said Craig Johnson, who with partner Kip Ashmore has won six tournaments in the past seven weeks. “We have been catching 30 or 40 fish a day,” said Craig. “We are floating a white-ice Super Fluke. Everyone else is fishing the ditches with…
Carters: Level: .9 feet above full pool. Temp: 44-45 degrees with some water up to the upper 40s in the backs of pockets late in the day. Clarity: Slight stain from recent rains. Bass: The prespawn bite is just around the corner. Right now, the spotted bass are on a jig bite. “The green pumpkin…
Chatuge: Level: 7 feet below full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The pot-tournament season is about to get cranked up on Chatuge, and when it does, John Hembree said he would have three baits tied on: a fluke, a crankbait like a Shad Rap, and a jerkbait. “I throw a Husky Jerk in…
Burton: Level: 5.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 49-51 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Trout: The trout are still back in the creeks and pockets near the dam, said Nathan Lewis, but at lower numbers than late last fall. Most of the fish are in the nine- to 12-inch range, but there are a few bigger trout…
Blue Ridge: Level: 15.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-50 degrees, the backs of the pockets are a little warmer. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Improving. “We are catching fish every day,” said guide Nathan Lewis. “But some days you catch five, and some days you catch 10.” Nathan said the fish were beginning to get more…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 54 degrees. Clarity: The river is stained, the sloughs are clear. Crappie: Slow, but should be breaking loose any day. Rusty Parker said his crappie-fishing friends had only been catching a few, but the size was good, and the fish were full of eggs. Fish were hitting Tripple-Ripple jigs 16-feet…
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