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As water temperatures finally climb into the mid 50s, more and more bass anglers will be removing the cover from their bass boats, filling up their tanks and heading to the lake. The next three months will be a fun time to be a fisherman. It’s just so much fun to catch a bass when…
Good news for Georgia trout fishermen! There are nearly 1.2 million trout swimming in state hatchery runs awaiting the 2003 trout season. “It is looking very good,” said Hal Chestnutt, superintendent of the Lake Burton Hatchery. “We have had a good growing season and have produced 80,000 more trout above the proposed numbers. All the…
Even for those of us who spent more time daydreaming about fishing instead of paying attention to the teacher, “spring” is an easy word to spell: c-r-a-p-p-i-e. Nothing spells springtime to an angler like the thoughts of a warm, springlike day spent on the water filling the livewell with a limit of slab crappie. Crappie…
This month you can bury those jigging spoons back down into your tackle box and start throwing something a little more horizontal. In mid February, Lake Oconee’s water temperature was still in the upper 40s, but it was slowly warming. Some fish had already begun to move shallow around wood cover and rock. As we…
The bass was so big that when it got hung up in the submerged tree limbs, Sam jumped into the lake to get the fish. On March 16, 2002, Sam Taylor, of Box Springs, was bass fishing in a 14-acre Marion County pond. He had cast a 4-inch watermelon seed Gambler tube worm into a…
To catch bass in Georgia in February usually means one of three things — hope for a warm spell, head south, or look for clear water and spotted bass. If you live in northwest Georgia, the first two are tough, but you have Carters Lake near you which has clear water and a great population…
Bartletts Ferry is one of the best lakes around for fishing deep structure in September. The lake is full of shallow points that border deep water, a prime place to find fall bass. If you like probing points for bass, Bartletts is the place. Also known as Lake Harding, Bartletts Ferry is an old lake on the Chattahoochee River along the Georgia/Alabama line with…
There’s a “new” kind of fishing fever that’s beginning to accelerate off the Georgia coast, and it makes fishing a whole lot simpler. For hundreds of years, anglers have been setting their hooks on a variety of fish while fishing from a canoe. However, it has just been in the last several years that some modern-day anglers are beginning to see the canoe as…
For good bass fishing, especially for quality-sized bass, one of Georgia’s smaller reservoirs, little Lake Jackson, stands tall. The fishing is tough as summer’s grip clings in early September, but the regulars on Jackson know some techniques that will tempt those lethargic late-summer bass. Like any big reservoir that gets lots of fishing pressure, Lake Jackson can be a difficult body of water to fish. This is especially true during the hot…
Mike Hewell, of Gillsville, established a new record for the upper Chattahoochee River above the highway 52 bridge in Hall County. Mike’s shoal bass weighed 5.18-lb. shoal bass, and he caught it in Habersham County. Mike was using a watermelon seed Zoom Finesse worm on 6-lb. test.
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