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Fishing
Tod Hickman caught a 3-lb., 2-oz. white bass on Lake Burton on May 2, 2012 that set a benchmark for this species on Burton.
Any lineside fisherman looking to experience what might be some of the most consistent and exciting action available in the state right now needs to look no further than Lake Allatoona. Just north of Atlanta, the beautiful lake is a wonderful pick for a day full of tough-fighting stripers and hybrids. “The action this time…
Flounder are on the move this month, migrating back from nearshore reefs and wrecks. Every year they make a migration offshore in the fall and then back inshore in the spring. It’s the larger flounder that make the migrations. The smaller ones, the ones from the current and previous years’ hatches, remain inshore in the…
Wondered lately why the hybrids have all but disappeared from your favorite lake? Would you be surprised to hear that some years Lake Lanier has been stocked with fewer striped bass per acre than Seminole, High Falls and Sinclair? Few anglers, even guides who make their living going after these fish, know much about the…
April is one of the best months of the year for Georgia anglers. All over the state fish of all species are feeling the urge to spawn and head to the banks. And the bass of Black Shoals are no exception. Black Shoals Lake, in Rockdale County, is a picturesque spot. This 650-acre water-supply reservoir…
If ever there was a spring to be thinking ahead, it’s probably this one. It’s not supposed to be 85 degrees in mid March. There’s not supposed to be this much pollen this early, and I can’t ever remember the woods being quite so green before turkey season started. However, Aaron Batson, of Oxford, has…
Longtime Blackshear crappie angler Rusty Parker said the lake is fishing as well as he’s ever experienced. And this month, he expects crappie to pull up early for the prespawn and spawn. There are a lot of different methods that will catch them this time of year, and Rusty wasn’t heistant about serving up several…
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