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Fishing
Take advantage of beautiful spring weather and plan a trout fishing trip to the north Georgia Mountains! How about an early trout stocking to sweeten the deal? WRD and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will cooperatively stock 40,000 trout in Georgia during the week of Mar. 6, giving anglers their first opportunity to harvest…
So you think it’s time to build the pond or lake of your dreams, but you don’t know where you need to start? This article and another next month will provide you a solid plan of action. These articles are not written to answer all pond construction questions, but rather to act as a great…
As bass fishermen, we all have a picture of the perfect lake engraved in our minds. For some anglers, the perfect bass lake is dotted with cypress trees with sprawling roots and draped with Spanish moss. Others bass anglers prefer fields of stumps and fallen timber. And, of course there’s the crowd who loves to…
If you want to see some big spots before your eyes, grab your favorite baits and head to Lake Russell this month. Keep it simple with a jig, underspin, shaky head and crankbait, and concentrate on fishing rocks and clay to catch some quality spotted bass in March. Russell is our newest Corps of Engineers…
What do an 11-lb. largemouth bass from a major reservoir caught by a tournament angler, a personal best largemouth of 7 pounds caught from a south Georgia river and a 3-lb. largemouth caught from a pond by a beginning angler have in common? They are trophy bass! Each angler has to define what a trophy…
If you like fishing crankbaits in shallow water for largemouth and spots, Lake Jackson should be on your radar for February fishing. For many years, Jackson was the lake for anglers to fish if they wanted to catch a bragging-sized largemouth in the winter. Those 7-lb. largemouth aren’t as common as they used to be—maybe…
Anglers were itching to get the 2017 fishing season going as 122 teams showed up to compete at Lake Sinclair on Jan. 28 for the Berry’s tournament. First place went to Keith Young, of Statham, and John White, of Flowery Branch, with a 21.85-lb. limit that earned them $3,600. Placing second and winning $1,800 was…
Winter to some saltwater anglers means putting away the fishing gear and waiting for the spring weather to show up. But there is no need to do that if you really want to fish. Granted you have to dress for the weather, and it may be a bit uncomfortable, but there are fish to be…
If there was a crappie fishing Hall of Fame, you could bet your boat Russell McQuaig would be in it. I’m sure many of you reading this have never heard the name, but for those who have, you know what I’m talking about. Russell and his brother Billy created a jig in 1981 that was…
The team of Brian Jamison, of Greensboro, and Charlie Kemp, of Jefferson, won the Dec. 10, 2016 Berry’s tournament on Lake Oconee with an impressive limit of five bass that pulled the scales to 22.96 pounds. Their catch was anchored by Big Fish of the tourney, a 6.47-lb. largemouth that earned them an addition $1,020…
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