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West Point linesides are on the move, feeding heavily on shad and tearing into blueback herring when they can find them. You can catch both stripers and hybrids right now trolling artificials and live bait, downlining live bait and jigging spoons and bucktails. It is a great time to catch them. Both species have been…
Georgia is without a doubt blessed with one of the best inshore fisheries along the Atlantic coast. Trout, flounder, redfish and a host of other species all thrive in our inshore creeks and rivers, offering up a chance for anglers to have plenty of fun and bring home dinner while they’re at it. Twelve months…
Southeast Georgia has many iconic blackwater fisheries, such as the trophy bass in Banks Lake, crappie in Lake Mayers, fliers in the Okefenokee and redbreast sunfish in the Satilla River. But, the quality bass that roam the grassbeds of Lake Lindsay Grace near Odum have flown mostly under the radar, except to local anglers who…
Prespawn bass hitting your baits in grass and around wood cove—that simple pattern will catch largemouth this month at Lake Oconee. The bass at Oconee will move to the spawning flats and feed heavily before bedding. Lake Oconee is 19,000 acres of water near Eatonton. The Oconee River and Richland Creek make up its two…
Gene Fleming, of Phenix City, Ala., set a pretty serious benchmark for the blue catfish record on Goat Rock Lake on the Chattahoochee River above Columbus. On Feb. 23, at just about dark, Gene was able to put a 63-lb. blue catfish in the boat that he caught on just 8-lb. test while fishing a…
Georgia saltwater anglers now have the opportunity to earn $100 rewards while contributing important data to help scientists manage the state’s red drum population. Red drum are also commonly called redfish and spottail bass. The Georgia Cooperative Angler Tagging Project, an initiative of the Coastal Resources Division (CRD) of the state Department of Natural Resources…
DNR announced it will close recreational fishing for bluefish in March and April this year. The move comes as state fishery managers seek to find a suitable solution to meet a mandate by an interstate fishery-management agency to reduce the harvest of bluefish by recreational anglers every year. “A recent stock assessment by the Atlantic…
Sixty-five folks fishing for facts gathered at The Lodge on Lake Oconee on Saturday, Feb. 1 for the first-ever “Four Seasons of Oconee Seminar” hosted by three Lake Oconee crappie-fishing experts. Capt. Doug Nelms, a regular GON Fishing Reports contributor, taught pushing techniques and shared some of his favorite GPS coordinates for fishing brushpiles and…
Hobie Kayaks billed the inaugural tournament of its 2020 Hobie Bass Open Series — the Hobie BOS at Lake Seminole — as an opportunity to cash in on trophy bass and big bucks. The storied waters of Seminole and more than 125 kayak tournament anglers didn’t disappoint. In a wild shootout Feb. 1-2 that drew…
Russell Barber, a Lowe’s department supervisor in Waycross, had a dilemma on his hands after Christmas. He looked around and counted 265 leftover Christmas trees that had to be hauled off somewhere. He a thought to put those trees to good use, and his move was to call WRD Fisheries in Waycross—a decision that would…
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