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Fishing
When GON asked me about doing a bass fishing story on a young man named Garrett Guinan, a junior at Lassiter High School and an aspiring professional tournament angler, I was excited to spend a day on Allatoona learning from a young Millennial. Garrett has been fishing with his dad since he was a young…
As fishermen, we love to discover wonderful new honey holes where the fishing is outstanding. Having said that, the 144-acre Lake Meriwether in west-central Georgia near Woodbury should be on your must visit list for 2016. Lake Meriwether is the drinking water impoundment for Woodbury, thus only electric trolling motors can be used, but you…
Along its length, the Toccoa River and its tributaries contribute largely to technical, yet traditional, trout fishing in Georgia. For more than 10 miles, it tumbles around the high ridges of national forest land in Union and Fannin counties, where it collects its frosty breath that supports wild rainbow, brown and brook trout. Twenty miles…
Phillip Lanier, of Calhoun, broke the Oostanaula River striped bass record on April 3, 2016. Like many lake and river records that are set these days, Phillip weighed the fish alive on certified scales and released the fish. Phillip returned to the Oostanaula River, and the 36-lb., 3-oz. fish swam away with no problem. The…
Crappie fishermen know they are headed to the right lake when they get near Weiss and start seeing signs proclaiming it is the “Crappie Fishing Capital of the World.” Those signs on the roads leading to Centre, Alabama give you an idea of the importance of crappie fishing in the area. Weiss is on the…
It happens each year. Fish move with the seasons. Sometimes it’s a move to spawn; sometimes it’s a move to warmer or cooler water; sometimes it’s a move with the tidal currents. But the irrefutable fact is that they do move. That’s a handy piece of information to have when you are fishing a particular…
A Cordele man recently caught a longnose gar from the Flint River that would have eclipsed the sportfishing world record, had it been weighed on certified scales. The 5-foot, 7 1/4-inch long fish was caught by Jerry Pheil of Cordele. Jerry said that on the morning of February 25 he was fishing in the Flint…
Robert Attaway caught a 12.8-oz. redbreast on March 31, 2016 while fishing the Savannah River to the set the river-record benchmark. If you catch a potential lake or river record fish, have the fish weighed on certified scales and contact GON at 800.438.4663.
Robert Attaway caught a 1-lb., 1.6-oz. bluegill on the Savannah River on March 31, 2016 that set a benchmark river record for the Savannah River stretch from the Clarks Hill tailrace to the coast.
March weather is fickle, and fishing can be set back with a single front. Now, with April finally here, things have settled down, and the fishing is wide open. Bass are feeding and spawning, and they are as easy to catch right now as any time of the year. Clarks Hill is just about the…
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