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Chickamauga has been the best bass lake in the Southeast, if not in the whole country, the past few months. Many, many bass weighing more than 8 pounds have been landed, and in most tournaments you didn’t even need to weigh-in if you had five bass weighing less than 25 pounds. Why is Chickamauga so…
Earlier in the year, Crooked River State Park in extreme southeast Georgia won the “Most Outstanding Park Operations” award for a combination of being run efficiently, as well as having outstanding interpretive programs and facilities. With such an awesome assortment of parks and historic sites across our great state, that is quite an honor. A…
Mike Strickland caught this 6-lb., 8-oz. lake-record spotted bass on Lake Russell on April 6, 2013. Spotted bass have all but take over what used to be great largemouth bass fishery on Lake Russell. For lots of articles and information on catching spots at Lake Russell, click here.
Bait Stealers! Convict fish! Heads! One charter guide even calls them a “seven striped jetty snapper.” Whatever you call them, sheepshead are some of the most overlooked saltwater fish in Georgia. They fight hard and are really great to eat. But, for some people, catching them is a real chore. One look at the near…
Understanding bass movement on a specific lake gives anglers a big advantage. It’s a foregone conclusion that largemouth bass move to the shallows to spawn when the water starts to warm back up. The next movement is a little harder to track, but postspawn bass can be real hungry after they’ve had time to rest…
Cliff Saville caught the 2-lb., 4-oz. lake-record yellow perch on Lake Seed on March 4, 2003.
Angler Thomas Lewis of Grovetown in Columbia County reeled in the new state-record yellow perch from the Savannah River, just below Clarks Hill Dam, on Feb. 27, 2013. This is the first new state record fish since 2010. According to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division, this 2-lb., 9-oz., 16.5-inch catch beats…
Most anglers in Georgia immediately think of trout when the subject of fishing in the Cohutta WMA and Wilderness Area comes up. However, it’s time to think again, because Lake Conasauga has consistently produced some good numbers and sizes of largemouth bass over the last few years. The 19-acre lake also has another claim to…
I have been blessed to fish all over the country, and I’ll be totally honest with you—Lake Seminole is one of the best lakes you will ever have the opportunity to fish. With abundant vegetation such as hydrilla and eel grass, miles of sandbars and hundreds of acres of standing timber, Seminole bass grow throughout…
There’s a largely overlooked 1,750-acre treasure in middle Georgia that few bass anglers take advantage of. At first glance, it’s not a particularly “sexy” fishery—you won’t find an abundance of river ledges, huge brushpiles or underwater rock piles. In fact, if you’re not a local, you’ll probably find yourself struggling to simply pronounce its name…
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