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Fishing
You’ve heard the old joke about fishing: if you’re on shore you try to sling the bait as far out as possible, and if you’re in a boat, you try to toss the bait as close to shore as your skill allows. It’s as paradoxical as it is true. What I want to share today…
What is bass fishing like on the Ocmulgee River? Well, there’s shallow, fishy-looking cover everywhere, with current breaks offering ambush points. Willows line the bank, and blowdowns reach into the seams of chocolate-green, slow-moving current—some laydowns almost blocking the whole river. No hindsight ip unit displayed. Bass fishing here is unique, target-rich and fun! The…
When Robin Van Dette made her first cast of the day on Lake Blackshear, she immediately knew something big had inhaled the red wiggler she was using for bait. Over the next few minutes and hours, her emotions would go from excitement, to disappointment, to incredible excitement. “My husband Mark and I have a place…
What started as a group message between a few friends ended with the Satilla River fish of a lifetime for Michael Lott. “Me and some good buddies have a group message where we talk about fishing and what not,” said Michael. “On the afternoon of May 10, my buddy Ben Thomason asked if anyone wanted…
An angler’s first fishing trip on the Etowah River produced a river record—a 38-lb., 0.8-oz. flathead catfish. “I guess you could call it beginner’s luck for me,” said John Morgado, of Canton, “but my friend Hugh Stephens fishes the river a lot, and he said he likes taking friends out. I usually go fly fishing…
The Chattahoochee is one of my favorite locations to chase several species of fish, and with the May full moon I headed to Bull Sluice on Sunday with both my bass tackle and a fly rod to search for bream beds. I made my way on my kayak to the place I planned to fish,…
Robert McCain, of Fargo, established a benchmark bluegill record for the Suwannee River on May 2 when he caught a bluegill bream that weighed 1-lb., 4.16-ozs. “I’ve caught some in lakes that were 2 pounds, but this one was bigger than usual for the river,” said Robert. There’s a chance Robert’s fish would have been…
For the second time inside of a month, the Oostanaula River longnose gar record has been broken. The first record was topped on March 30, 2022 when Joseph Agan caught an 18 1/2-lb. gar that set the record. However, that record is no more. A heavier longnose gar, this one weighing 22-lbs., 6.88-ozs., was caught…
A 9-lb., 10-oz. Satilla River bowfin caught on May 1 by Layne Williams, of Blackshear, shattered the old record of a 5-lb., 1-oz. mudfish caught in 2020. Layne said he was fishing in a kayak at the Highway 84 ramp and throwing a speciality bait he uses to catch a variety of fish. “I take…
The Savannah River chain of reservoirs have long been known for producing good fishing for redear sunfish, commonly known as shellcrackers. So it is fitting that a lake record has finally been established on Lake Hartwell. Meka Ashe, of Franklin, N.C., was fishing on Lake Hartwell May 2 when she caught a big redear. She…
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