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Fishing
While the Fort Stewart ponds get much of the fanfare in the Savannah area, the Evans County Public Fishing Area (PFA) operated by the Wildlife Resources Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources quietly produces great catches of bass, bluegill, shellcrackers, and catfish. The almost 400-acre area is located in Daisy, adjacent to the…
Elk Hair Caddis Hook: Size 12-18 Thread: Brown Hackle: Furnace cock Saddle Hackle Rib: Fine Gold Wire Body: Dark Hare’s Fur Wing: Elk Hock Hair “I love this time of year! The caddis have already begun hatching and will continuously escalate the next several months. Caddis can be fished in almost every stage; however, fishing…
April may be the best month of the year to pull in a limit of Lake Blackshear bass, says fishing expert Sam Moody of Leesburg. Warming temperatures pull the bass out of the deeper ledges and channels, then moves them into the more shallow coves around the cypress trees, and Sam targets them with soft…
Jerry Craft is a crappie-fishing fanatic. He doesn’t hunt deer much anymore; he doesn’t fish for bass; what he likes best is catching crappie at Lake Russell. In March when the crappie are on the move, coming up from deep structure out on the main lake and moving into the creeks ahead of the spawn,…
“I want to reschedule,” Rob Boswell said. Being a fisherman myself, I felt his pain. It’s tough enough to go out and catch fish with the pressure of a magazine interview under ideal conditions. The conditions we faced made this proposition nearly impossible. Despite that, Rob was able to find fish and we caught a limit.…
Largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, shellcrackers, and channel catfish… all species that you can forget about catching on a fishing trip to the “land of the trembling earth,” the Okefenokee Swamp. The mystical black water of the swamp harbors excellent gamefish populations, but they are of the chain pickerel, bowfin, flier, warmouth, and bullhead catfish variety.…
Wouldn’t it be nice if the weather was always great when we planned to go fishing? Most times of the year it is, but in the late winter and early spring, it seems like we get a few warm, beautiful days followed with intermittent cold fronts that sew shut the mouths of every bass on…
The anticipation was high as my Pointer Minnow hit the water. “You’re just past it,” Scott Robinson hollered from down the bank. A picnic table was submerged 6 feet below the surface, and Scott said it was a great place for holding wintertime bass. I twitched my rod three hard times before pausing the jerkbait right…
To the uninitiated, trout fishing can seem exotic and daunting. The equipment and paraphernalia, the unending selection of flies, learning to cast, and access to productive trout waters can overwhelm a would-be trout angler. Georgians are blessed with an excellent trout stream that runs through the middle of north Atlanta’s famous traffic jams and skyscrapers.…
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…
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