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Fishing
Cold wind, low clouds blocking any hint of a warming sun, and water temperatures holding at 48 degrees… Doug Nelms put the trolling motor down and eased into a lane through the timber up the Apalachee River, a spot known as the Powerline, and he began setting out his minnow-tipped jigs. I glanced at the…
The one-trick pony returns to Lake Blackshear during late February to the first of April. Now what exactly is a one-trick pony that relates to fishing? As you know, crappie can be caught year round, but during the early spring spawn, the green light comes on and crappie move into the shallows where we can…
It is the dead of winter. Water temperatures are below 50 degrees, and the weather fronts are coming through back to back driving the barometer up and down on an almost daily basis. This is tough fishing at its best. Where would you go to find bass? In most Georgia reservoirs the faithful will go…
I remember the planning meeting when the GON editorial staff was sitting around a table deciding which lakes to hit in February. Brad Gill, the in-house Lake Varner expert said, “February is the time to go roll a big un.” I was pleased to draw such a plum assignment because I had never had the…
It’s nearly spring, and springtime means crappie. There is no better time of year to catch slab crappie, and there is no better place in the Southeast to do it than Alabama’s Lake Weiss. This 30,000-acre Alabama Power impoundment spans the Georgia-Alabama border on the Coosa River. Although the lake spills into two states, all…
Lake Lanier, north of Atlanta, has long been known as a quality striper fishery. Stocking programs have been very successful over the years, and the reservoir has a good population of these landlocked saltwater bass, many of which are of trophy size. While the striper fishing on Lanier can be good year round, the winter…
The day on Lake Allatoona was perfectly suited for duck hunting. A storm had dumped two inches of rain across much of the state for the previous day and a half, and the low, slate-gray clouds overhead continued to open intermittently during the trip. The weatherman had predicted temperatures in the 40s, but I must…
January weather here in Georgia often makes bass fishermen dream of a trip to Florida. But you donat Lake Seminole. There the bass fishing is often way ahead of the rest of our state. Seminole is a shallow, flat lake with lots of grass and channels snaking through spawning flats. There are stumps and standing…
Nothing heats up a cold winter day like a bass on the end of the line. Two of the best ways to catch that instant heat are jigging spoons and crankbaits. These two classic cold-water hard lures can warm up a winter day in a hurry when the bass turn on. Working these two baits,…
The folks who work under the Parks Division of the Department of Natural Resources are hoping a four-foot drop in the lake level at High Falls will be enough to repair a leak in one of the dam’s two doors. “The Safe Dam Committee has mandated us to fix the leak in the dam’s door,” said…
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