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Fishing

Eufaula’s Best Crappie Bite Comes After The Spawn

Call Tony Adams the antithesis of the typical crappie fisherman. Unlike many casual anglers who only pursue slabs for a limited period in the spring, Tony longs for the extended days and heat of the late spring and summer months. At that time, starting in late April and running through the remainder of the spring,…

Hunting Tripletail Off The Georgia Coast

This time of year there is an annual migration that gets the attention of a growing number of anglers along the Georgia coast. The Atlantic tripletail show up, and with their arrival, a very different option for anglers becomes available. Tripletail get their name from their large, rounded dorsal and anal fins, which closely match…

Small Lake Profile: Lucas Lake Near Macon

Lake Lucas created quite a ripple when it opened on March 28, 2004 with great fishing, but since then, it’s been under the fishing radar for many anglers. It’s likely the limited hours, fishing fees and the elector-motor stipulation that deters some anglers, but for those who fish it regularly, a day at Lucas can…

Georgia Bream Fishing Special

If you’re a bream fisherman in Georgia, the month of May is as good as it gets. From the mountains up around Lake Blue Ridge to the humid rivers of south Georgia—and everywhere in between—the bream are biting right now. And whether you like drowning worms, dunking corks, twitching a popping bug, or pitching a…

Hartwell Bass On Top And Munching In May

Mix postspawn bass and blueback herring, and you can be in for a fast and furious bite. Lake Hartwell bass are mostly finished spawning by early May, and they are munching herring to recover from the stress of the spawn. Meanwhile, the herring make it easy for the bass because they are spawning, which concentrates…

Etowah River Largemouth Sets Benchmark

When a lake or river record sits open, which means no angler has certified a weight on a particular species for that body of water, often GON will accept a weight as a benchmark. A 7 1/2-lb. largemouth bass caught from the Etowah River fits that bill. Eric Black, of Cartersville, holds the Etowah River…

Lake Page Sponsorship

Does your business cater to anglers, boaters and others that recreate on the lake? Now you can feature your business on GON’s Lake & River pages. Choose the lake or river that is best for your business, and your ad will appear every time that page is loaded. There’s limited availability on each page, so…

Lake Juliette Striped Bass

Lake Juliette, just a few miles north of Macon, in Monroe County, is one of those great lakes that I really like to striper fish. When you find a school of hungry stripers, you can limit out pretty quickly, but they are like roaming cows on a 3,600-acre pasture, and the clear water can make…

Jackson Angler Wins $5,000 In Berry’s Hawg Pot

There’s still $14,000 worth of largemouth bass swimming around Lake Jackson right now. Sound too good to be true? Larry Cason, of Newborn, will tell you it’s true. Less than two weeks ago, he found himself $5,000 richer after catching a Lake Jackson bucketmouth. It’s been about a dozen years since Bobby Berry began what is called the “Hawg Pot”…

46 Pound Nottely Striper Caught On Video

Mason Tompkins, 11, of Milledgeville, had the catch of the day with his 46-lb. Lake Nottely striper on April 9. Mason was fishing with his parents Tim and Dawn, his 8-year-old brother Kolby and Jeremy Seabolt, who runs a guide service on Lake Nottely. “We were trolling freelines,” said Jeremy. “The fish hit in open water…

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