Lake Allatoona Fishing Report November 2007

Allatoona: Level: Down 16.4 feet below full pool and dropping. Temp: 72 degrees. Clarity: Clear from dam to Stamp Creek, while the rest of lake has a light stain.
Bass: Good. The key is bait, and there’s plenty of it in the creeks and pockets. Start at the mouths, and work your way back in. There’s an off-and-on topwater bite early. Try a Sammy, Chug Bug or Pop-R. Then try a soft jerkbait like a Super Fluke or Senko rigged on a 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook. Work the fluke just out of sight around the main-lake pockets and creek mouths. Also try a hard jerkbait like a Lucky Craft Bevy Shad 75 or Pointer 78. If the weather gets cold, look for a drop-shot bite and jigging-spoon bite.
Linesides: Excellent. Guide Robert Eidson said the fishing is fantastic and easy right now, and luckily his boat is wet-docked at Harbor Town, so he’ll be fishing all winter despite ramps closing due to low water. “We’ll have the lake to ourselves. When lakes get down like this, it makes fishing easier,” Robert said. “I had four 8-year-olds this past Saturday, Cub Scouts trying to earn their fishing belt loops. These kids boated more than 30 hybrids.” Most of the hybrids are in the 4- to 7-lb. range. They’re on the humps and flats in water as shallow as 10 feet deep early in the mornings. “They’ll eat a Sammy right now,” Robert said. “They’ll also eat shad, and we’re not having to put our flatlines far behind the boat, only 30 to 40 feet, so you can watch them come up and eat the bait.” Try from Kellogg Creek all the way up to the mouth of Stamp Creek. There’s also a deep-water bite between the dam and Bethany Bridge. Drop a jigging spoon on the river channel on 40- to 45-foot bottoms. “The stripers are starting to show up in the same areas. They’re starting to move out of the cold-water refuges, and they’re starting to eat,” Robert said.