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Fishing
It was Sept. 7, 2021, and the air temperature at 4 p.m. was hitting 90 degrees when we launched the boat into 4,700-acre Lake Jackson outside of Monticello. It was hot, steamy and not a hint of a breeze. Not ideal conditions for crappie fishing by any means, yet I was still optimistic that we…
Lake Blackshear has to be one of Georgia’s “fishiest” looking lakes. Everywhere you look, you think… “There’s a bass by that cypress tree, I could catch one out of that grass, those docks look great, and I bet fish feed on that rip-rap.” You will often be right. Blackshear is located on the Flint River…
“Pull him in the boat” I yelled with excitement as I watched my youngest boy tussle with a nice-sized channel cat. The fish was thrashing its tail on the surface trying to make an escape, but my 4-year-old pulled him over the gunnel and into the bottom of the boat. He held up the cord…
When the inaugural Abu Garcia Bassmaster High School Combine kicks off on Oct. 15, there will be 85 gifted high school anglers from 28 states who will have the opportunity to showcase their talents for a host of colleges. The coaches from 20 colleges that offer fishing scholarships will be on hand at the three-day…
Growing up in south Atlanta, a southern summer would not be complete without doing some fishing and lots of it. Fishing has always been a passion of mine going back to my childhood when we would sneak slices of Mama’s white bread on those hot, summer days and go down to the community pond to…
All Wendell Mathis wanted to do in his 45 years of fishing Lake Seminole was catch a bream that weighed at least a pound. Well, at almost 69 years of age, the angler from Colquitt sealed the deal on Aug. 24 with a bluegill bream that weighed 1-lb., 7.68-ozs. “I put in at Cummings Landing…
Georgia is home 10 species of black bass. The two most common, which most anglers are familiar with, are the largemouth and spotted species. The remaining eight are smallmouth, shoal, Suwannee, redeye, Chattahoochee, Tallapoosa, Altamaha and the Bartram’s. If you catch five of the 10 in one calendar year, you have become eligible to be…
September can be a mean month for catching bass, but at Lake Eufaula anglers can go to shallow grass for a few big fish, or they can go to deep ledges and points for numbers. And on the ledges, you can also get on a school of good bass, too. Lake Walter F. George, known…
August in Georgia… it’s hot, fish don’t bite very well, and boat traffic is awful on most lakes. Many of us aren’t going to stop fishing, and a good option to avoid the boat traffic and feel some bass bites is at Lake Russell. You can catch as many spotted bass as you want on…
On July 24, the King of the Kayak Series hosted an open kayak fishing tournament at Tired Creek Lake. The tournament benefited Mattie’s Mission, a non-profit that uses its resources to help in the fight against childhood cancer. The event drew nearly 25 anglers from various parts of Georgia, and more than $1,300 was raised…
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