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Fishing
The tide on the outer bar was going to top out around 7:15 p.m. at a height of about 8.1 feet. The water wouldn’t hit the high mark on the marsh at my spot until about 8:00 p.m. Plenty of time to get in a day’s work, yet still have a couple of hours to…
The easy sweep of black water around cypress and black gum knees, across shinning sand bars and through deep, seemingly bottomless holes is peaceful and serene. But don’t let Brier Creek fool you. Just below the surface of the cool, coffee-colored water lies a boiling, raging, line-peeling fight just waiting to happen. All you need…
May and June are special months in Georgia for fishermen — the time of year when bream fishing is at its best. Watching a bobber, or tossing a spinner to bream beds, is extremely fun whether you are seven or 70. It’s a great way to load up a livewell for the church fish-fry, or…
There’s plenty of different techniques you can use to load up a stringer slap full of crappie — corked minnows, tight-lining, trolling, jigs, jigging spoons and probably even a few more that I haven’t tried. Last month on Lake Sinclair I got to learn a different and very enjoyable crappie-fishing technique — shooting docks. Shooting…
The bait-clicker on one of Mark Collins’ rods began to click in a slow steady rythym — “click, click, click” as something in the lake took the bait. But as the line began to spin off the baitcaster, the clicks merged into a ripping whir. I grabbed my camera as Mark pulled the rod from…
Daniel Rawlins, 16, of Appling, was hoping for a Clarks Hill slab crappie when he was fishing on April 15, 2001. Instead, he ended up landing this 13-oz. warmouth that nailed his minnow. The new lake-record fish fills a previously empty category. Clarks Hill Lake, is a reservoir at the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the…
It was just after 8:00 a.m. and I had just made my fourth cast of the morning. My medium-sized crankbait landed right where I wanted it to, just beyond an underwater spring that had been attracting fish as of late. I gave my reel seven or eight good cranks trying to get my bait down…
James Davis, of Evans, was in a fishing tournament on Feb. 28, 2001 when he caught this 4-lb., 9-oz., jackfish that is the new Savannah River record.
Duke Campbell Jr., of Hazelhurst, was fishing with his daughter Chelsea when he caught this 3.5-lb. black crappie from Lake Eufaula to establish a new lake record. Duke caught his Eufaula slab on Feb. 15, 2001.
Greg Bergman (right), of Kennesaw, was fishing with his buddy Victor Shelquist (left) on Lake Blue Ridge when Greg boated this 9-lb., 4-oz., walleye. The record fish was caught on Jan. 7, 2001. Greg’s huge Georgia walleye beat the old Lake Blue Ridge record, caught in 1995, by 4 pounds.
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