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Fishing
Like the proverbial kid in the candy store, I couldn’t decide what I wanted first. Should I pitch a jig to slack-water log jam in hopes of a largemouth, or go after spotted a twitch bait in the eddy below the shoals? The Oostanaula River in Gordon and Floyd counties looks so good, if you…
That Lake Chatuge could produce very large hybrid bass, a hatchery-created cross between striped bass and white bass, became apparent about five or six years ago. Local anglers began hooking some big hybrids, mostly at night during April and May while casting crankbaits for spotted bass and smallmouths. As word spread about hybrid bass weighing…
The air had a brisk bite as I idled through the dense early morning fog toward the nearby creek channel. The fish had been holding in this area for about three weeks, moving only slightly as the water slowly cooled. The sound of screaming gulls, mufHed only by the sound of cars passing over the…
A lake record that some anglers thought would never be broken has been rewritten. The new mark for striped bass at Lake Oconee is now set at 29-lbs., 10oz., which exceeds the previous record by half a pound. Rickey Howington, of Jefferson, is the new record-holder. Rickey had a week off from work, and he…
Tim Harris ought to go fishing more often! On his single trip to the Lake Hartwell trailrace last summer, he caught a trout bigger than anyone else has caught from Lake Russell. On Fourth of July, 1993, then 14-year-old Tim Harris, of Hartwell, went fishing in the tailrace below the Lake Hartwell dam, which is…
Wynoka Moye, of Macon, set a new lake record at Juliette with a 10.17-lb. hybrid that she caught on March 21, 1994.
A 2.70-lb. black crappie set a new lake record for Lake Burton, but it only placed third in Week 1 of the 1994 GON Fishing Contest with a score of 83.1 percent. Tom Cook caught the slab on March 7. The GON Fishing Contest had weekly winners, with each species of fish having a benchmark…
Harrison Nix holds the current largemouth bass record for Rabun with a 12-lb., 6-oz. fish he caught on June 8, 1993.
A huge mountain largemouth bass caught in 1993 set the lake record for Lake Burton. Carl Lovell Jr., of Clarkesville, caught the bass on May 28, 1993 while fishing a plastic worm. Carl’s big largemouth weighed 14 pounds even.
It’s kind of hard to hold this one up! Sam Porter, of Six Mile, S.C., caught this 55-lb., 12-oz. striped bass May 27, 1993 in the trailrace below Russell Dam in the headwaters of Clarks Hill Lake. The monster striper set a new lake record for Clarks Hill and also set a new state record…
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