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Fishing
The first fish bit quickly, hitting the severed bream head soon after it struck bottom. A brief, drag-squealing battle ensued, but the feisty flathead was soon subdued, finding itself no match for a reel loaded with 40-lb. mono. The beast emerged from the green deeps, savage and primitive-looking with mud-colored skin shimmering in the sun.…
This is the month bass fishermen dream about all year long. Shallow bass are feeding and fanning beds, and fishing is good. The weather is nice and comfortable most days, and it just feels good to get on the water. Lake Russell is a great lake to take advantage of the weather and the bass…
Spring is probably the best part of the year to introduce a kid to fishing. Warm sunny days make the time on the water special, and the fish are moving in for the spawn. With the crappie heading for shallow water, they are concentrated, feeding aggressively and easy to catch. On a good day…
Friday the 13th wasn’t an unlucky day for Johnny Appling, of Buford. On Friday, March 13 in 2009, Johnny caught a 14-lb., 4-oz. lake-record largemouth on Lake Seed. He might attribute it more to persistence than luck, but Johnny caught the Lake Seed record while fishing a Sworming Hornet Fish Head Spin with a white…
Keri Schieber of Cumming is a dedicated and proficient angler. She has spent the last few years competing in tournaments at both the local and national level, and her results speak for themselves. Keri has won the Georgia Peaches Bass Club championship for two years running, and in 2007 she took home the co-angler title…
Crappie-tournament anglers don’t care about taking home a cooler full of fish for the fryer. Loading the boat is not the goal. A tournament angler is looking for just seven fish. The seven fattest, heaviest slabs on the lake. That may seem silly to your average weekend slab seeker. Trolling a circuit on a February…
February can be a frustrating month for anglers. A few warm days give hint of the coming spring, the bass start feeding, but then cold sets back in and knocks them back. But, if you go to Lake Jackson this month, you can find bass feeding most days by concentrating on the right places. Dammed…
Now that the smoke has settled and another deer season is in the bag, I, like many of you, turn my attention to one of my deepest passions… bass fishing. Spring is one of my favorite times of the year, and my No. 1 favorite thing to do is head to Paradise PFA in Berrien…
The north Georgia mountains are more likely to be equated with trout fishing than gigantic largemouths, but the cold, clear waters have created some California-style bass fishing on the 53-acre Unicoi Lake at Unicoi State Park, and a pair of Cleveland buddies has figured out how to catch them. On Oct. 22, Levi Garrett landed…
Dragging jigs down steep banks… dead-sticking a worm on a flat… twitching a hard jerkbait in open water… pulling a buzzbait by a dock… dropping a jigging spoon 50 feet deep below shad… punching a plastic craw through vegetation. What do these varied presentations have in common? They are all methods I have used to…
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