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Fishing
What is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and is able to leap several feet out of the water with a single bound? If you guessed Superman, thanks for playing. Enjoy your parting gifts. What I’m talking about is a Georgia fishing treasure: the smallmouth bass. A largemouth is a sneak…
David Matthews couldn’t believe his bad luck. Just minutes into a 150-boater on Clarks Hill, this local boy’s strategy hit a brick wall. In practice he’d found several bass on the bed, including a 4 1/2-pounder by a stump that he hoped would still be locked down and ready to jump on a tube bait.…
I cast a Lil’ Fishy out onto the end of a narrow, rocky point in Coneross Creek on Lake Hartwell and began a slow retrieve. The white, soft-plastic bait had moved maybe 10 feet when something bumped it. “I just had a hit,” I said to Hartwell fishing guide Steve Crenshaw and his friend Preston…
Tim Vaughn’s float, split-shot and gob of worms on a No. 4 hook arced through the air and plopped down on the surface of Black Shoals Lake. After a moment, the weight of the split-shot righted the stick-float, which bobbed on the surface. We were ready for a shellcracker to hit. On April 18, I…
Dennis Hudson says he used to carry tons of fishing tackle when he went fishing, and most of it he never used. These days, when he heads out on a fishing trip, he is likely to have four rods rigged with just the things that catch fish. On March 18, Dennis and I eased away…
For the first 2 1/2 hours that we fished Hugh M. Gillis PFA, we did not catch a bass. On March 12, I was on this brand-new public fishing lake with Ron Davis of Dublin. And while our day started slowly, this 109-acre lake set on a 700-acre Laurens County tract holds the promise of…
Hartwell anglers are getting the topwater itch — it’s almost topwater time! Hartwell is famous for this post-spawn topwater bass-fishing blast. After the spawn is completed, the bass move out of the creeks and migrate to deep-water summer hangouts. At Hartwell that means main-lake points and humps that are usually lined with timber. The fish…
When it comes to fishing Black Shoals reservoir, David Ruark and Chris York are fishing fanatics. David, who lives in Crawford and works for Weyerhaeuser, and Chris, who lives in Griffin and works for Progressive Insurance, fish together on the High Voltage jonboat bass tournament trail. Their specialty is bass fishing on several of the…
Our second bass of the day, a bass that would top two pounds, hit Wilbur’s Trick Worm as the worm slid through an open area in the grass. The fat bass, as dark green as a farm-pond fish, splashed across a salad of green weeds covering the water and into the net. “I love Eufaula…
He goes by Rick R — and for good reason. His tongue-twister last name is Rzemieniewski. Whatever you call him, Rick is a trout angler devoted to the Chattahoochee River tailrace below Buford Dam. “The Chattahoochee is one beautiful trout river,” he says. “I’d match it with any trout river on the east coast. The…
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