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Fishing
It really is a simple fishing lure. It doesn’t require a high degree of skill to make a fish eat one, and right now — with a strong postspawn bite happening on most Georgia waters — it can be one of the most productive and versatile weapons in your arsenal. It will catch bass…
Big bass feeding in shallow water this month makes it an excellent time to go fishing. You can catch them on a wide variety of patterns and baits, and they are about as active as they get all year long. Weiss Lake offers one of the best lakes to explore different patterns and catch quality…
When Shane Smith moved to Fort Benning, he brought with him a love of fishing — catfishing to be precise. An Ohio native, Shane and his brother established a catfish tournament trail a few years back called Hilljack Catfishing that was designed for avid catfishermen to compete and promote conservation. Shane is Capt. Shane Smith…
One-thousand one-hundred thirteen bass 10 pounds or better and counting. No, that was not a typographical error… 1,113 bass 10 pounds or heavier. That is not the number of double-digit bass caught in all of Georgia over the last decade. It is the number caught by one individual, Pat Cullen, of Valdosta, over the last…
When Jackson County’s Bear Creek Reservoir was built in 2001 and stocked with F1 bass and plenty of forage, the intent was to open and manage the 505-acre lake as a trophy-bass fishery. Nearly a decade later in September 2009, the lake’s new boat ramp finally opened for business, and aggressive bass are open for…
The lake-record for flathead catfish on Lake Hartwell was set at a mark that’s going to be tough to top. On April 10, 2010, Darrin Sealey caught a flathead that pulled certified scales to 66 pounds. The Georgia state record for flathead is a tie between two Altamaha River cats that weighed 83 pounds. (Most…
There aren’t a whole lot of things better in this world than the smell of catfish sizzling in a pot of hot grease and a group of good friends waiting to devour them. I can already taste the tarter sauce on a fat catfish fillet, and I haven’t even wet a line yet. I could…
With lake records falling last year for striped and hybrid bass, Carters Lake anglers are anxiously awaiting the start of the annual spring run of fish to the upper end of the lake and into the Coosawattee River. In May 2009, Jake Wheeler set the new lake record for hybrid bass with an 11-lb., 4-oz.…
Lake Hartwell, on the Georgia/South Carolina border, has long been known as an excellent bass fishery. Both largemouth and spotted bass are present in good numbers, and anglers can land strings of quality fish if they know the territory and habits of the bass. But, right now is arguably the best time of year to…
Among fishermen, there are a few maxims that generally hold true regardless of when or where you’re fishing or what you’re fishing for. Targeting structure and fishing where other boats are catching fish are two tactics that usually produce — especially when your quarry is crappie feeding voraciously in the throes of the spring spawn.…
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