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Fishing
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.
I met Jay Johnston, of Jackson, and his 3-year-old daughter Ashley at Lake Oconee’s Lawrence Shoals boat ramp at 7 a.m. on July 18. Jay’s boat was already sitting in the water, waiting on me to arrive. I could see the dam when I packed my gear inside his 16-foot jon boat. With the assistance…
Just south of Atlanta, buried in 4,000 acres of hardwood bottoms and planted pines, sits an almost untouched piece of wilderness that is just slap loaded with deer, big Pope & Young- type deer that you can hunt. Did I forget to mention that the property also has two lakes on it that can be…
Don’t go fishing on the Flint River during the summer if you are afraid. Afraid of stranding your boat on a sandbar and having to walk out of the river through the swamp at night. Afraid of the repair bill after bending your prop or knocking your lower unit off on a submerged tree trunk…
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.
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