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Chatuge: Level: 6.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 45 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The series of weather fronts slowed the late January bite. Ordinarily during February fish can be caught in a variety of ways. A silver Hopkins or a white Flex-it jigging spoon worked just off the bottom in 30 to 45 feet…
Burton: Level: 7.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 45 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Last year in February the new Georgia state record for spotted bass was caught from Burton, and traditionally February is known as a good month for a trophy spot. Daniel Workman says the spots are usually schooled on main-lake points following…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50-55 degrees. Clarity: Good fishing color. Bass: Clint Brownlee, who with Gerry Gray won the Blackshear Buddies Classic in December, said the fishing has been slow. Try about halfway back in the creeks and sloughs, starting with a crankbait as a fish-finder lure. When Clint catches a fish on the…
Allatoona: Level: Down 15 feet below full pool. Temps: 47 early, rising to 50 degrees on warmer afternoons. Clarity: Mostly stained. Bass: January was tough because mild temperatures caused the bass to scatter, said guide Mike Bucca. He’s been concentrating on schools of bait on the main lake using a jigging spoon, a School Girl…
Burton: Level: 6.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 46-50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. Fishing guide Nathan Lewis said that he has been catching a few spotted bass, but they are running small. “I have been catching some decent spots throwing a Norman’s crankbait on windblown, main-lake points,” he said. There has been zero surface…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: The main run of the lake is slightly stained, back in the sloughs the water is clear. Bass: Slow, according to Ernie Broughton who held his season-ending Classic on the lake December 17. “A lot of the guys packed up and left the lake by noon or…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 52 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Spots are deep and largemouths are shallow. To catch good numbers of fish and have a ball, get a jigging spoon and head to Halawakee Creek. Jim Pass said to look for humps in water 22- to 25-feet deep, and drop…
Allatoona: Level: Down 15.7 feet below full pool. Temps: 46-48 degrees. Clarity: Stained from the mid-section to the rivers, mostly clear on the main lake from Stamp Creek to the dam and around to the Pass. Bass: Good, according to guide and tournament angler Mike Bucca. “Right now the early-morning crankbait bite with a Lucky…
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…
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