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Fishing
Although Allatoona can be a very tough lake, it can also come alive late on an August afternoon. It can be tough to catch fish on Allatoona, but bass are feeding if you know where to go and what to use. Spend some time on the lake and you can have a decent catch for…
As an outdoorsman, one of the most appealing things to me about outdoor activities is the beauty of nature. While the sport of fishing itself has its obvious rewards, the experience is greatly enhanced by the sheer splendor of the environment. There are many beautiful locations around the state of Georgia, but one of the…
Switching to another lake wasn’t looking like the right call for the two anglers, who started the morning of June 29, 2002 fishing a small Dodge County lake and had caught about 25 bass between one and four pounds. Around 1 p.m. Brin Meredith of Atlanta and Hal Harris of Macon decided to try a…
A relaxing fishing vacation to the Ocmulgee River with four good buddies during the summer of 2002 turned into a record-breaking enterprise for 72-year-old Hiram Baughcum, of Griffin. On July 2, 2002, Hiram successfully hooked and boated the new Ocmulgee River record catfish. The oversized cat weighed 59-lbs., 2-ozs. and measured 46 1/4 inches long.…
Russ Toole holds the current Lake Lanier shellcracker record with a 1-lb., 5-oz. fish he caught on June 13, 2002.
Just when you thought bass anglers had run out of anything new in their bag of fish-catching tricks, along comes a technique that is producing bass like crazy and has money-fishermen scrambling to master its methods. The rig — a hook tied up the line with a weight at the bottom — is rather simple,…
Like an aging prom queen, as a reservoir matures it goes through changes… and some aren’t so pretty. Some are subtle and take years to impact fishing patterns. Other changes occur almost overnight. The anglers who know a lake best — that proverbial “like-the-back-of-your-hand” knowledge — are the ones who can catch fish when the…
There are two keys to successful “dock shooting” — the crappie-fishing technique that involves using your fishing pole like a catapult to fire a crappie jig into shady crevices under docks. One key is shooting accuracy, the other is hook-setting skill. You can practice the first without even going to the lake — shooting jigs…
Big spotted bass are going to hit topwater at Lake Lanier in May. It’s really just a matter of whether they want it fast or slow, on the surface or a foot or two underneath. Figure that out, and you’re on your way to a healthy sack of fish. To learn more about this dynamite…
A jewel of a lake is nestled in the rolling hills near Eastman. Covering 104 acres, the lake is the main focal point of Dodge County Public Fishing Area (DCPFA) and could appropriately be dubbed “The Fish Factory.” Although the lake receives most of its notoriety from the world-class largemouth bass it produces (a 15-lb.,…
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