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Fishing Reports
Lanier: Level: 1.9 feet below 1071. Temp: 81-86 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Jimbo Mathley, with Jimbo’s Lake Lanier Spotted Bass Guide Service, reports, “A traditional September on Lake Lanier offers anglers many choices of approach. This September on Lake Lanier should be no different. The lake has been around full pool most of the…
Jackson: Level: 0.4 feet above 528. Temp: Upper 80s to low 90s. Clarity: Stained in the rivers, and the main lake is clear. Bass: Tournament angler Willie McMullen reports the good news is that boat traffic will be less after Labor Day weekend, and shallow-water fishing should improve. Target spots on deeper seawalls and natural…
Hartwell: Level: 4.8 feet below 660. Temp: 84-87. Clarity: Clear. Bass & Stripers: Trent Gober, with Fish Hartwell Guide Service, said bass are on the main-lake brush and canepiles, as well as natural timber. Catch them by casting big topwater plugs, like a Super Spook, OG and Gunfish to draw them to the top. You…
Eufaula: Level: 0.7 feet above 188. Temp: 91. Clarity: Clear to a perfect stain. Bass: Capt. Sam Williams, of Hawks Fishing Guide Service, reports, “The cooler days are making it more desirable to be on the water longer on the morning trips, giving you more time to work on finding a pattern that works. River…
Clarks Hill: Level: 4.8 below 330. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: D.J Hadden, with Hadden Outdoors, says, “September is a month of transition for the herring and the bass on Clarks Hill. The lake level should stay down 4 to 6 feet. The bluebacks will start to move to main-lake points and humps. Surface…
Chatuge: Level: 2.5 feet below 1925. Temp: 81-83 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Eric Welch, of Welch’s Guide Service, reports “Fishing has been good. TVA has started lowering the lake, and with the cooler nights and mornings, the water temp is starting to cool down. I have been seeing a lot of fishing breaking in the…
Sinclair: Level: 1.8 feet below at 340. Temp: 82-85 degrees. Clarity: Light stain in the Little River. The Spalding County Sportsman Club fished Sinclair on Aug. 24 from 6:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. on a cool morning, a hot midday and no clouds but some breeze. Eleven of us landed 15 keepers weighing about 26…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “The best fishing of the year is always the month of September on the Georgia coast. The fish catching here is as good as anywhere in the world in September. I have fished all over the South and no place has fish catching like we do in September. The…
Sinclair: Level: 1.7 feet below at 340. Temp: 87-89 degrees. Clarity: Little River is stained but clearer toward the dam. The 14 members of the Potato Creek Bassmasters club fished from 6:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. The weather was cloudy until 10, but it was sunny and hot after that. It was tough…
The southeast Georgia blackwater rivers are still blown out, but ponds, lakes and saltwater have produced some good reports this week. Altamaha/Ocmulgee River: The Ocmulgee is fishable (even low in the upper, rocky reaches) for panfish and bass. The Altamaha is falling out within the banks and should be a good option later in the…
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