Lake Oconee Bass Fishing Report – May 6, 2024

Ronnie Garrison won the Flint River Bass Club tournament on Lake Oconee on May 5, 2024.

The Flint River Bass Club fished Oconee this past Sunday for our May tournament.  The lower lake was clear where I fished from Long Shoals to the dam.

Eight fishermen weighed in 19 bass weighing about 32 pounds. There was one five-bass limit, and the only fisherman who didn’t have a keeper had to leave early.

I won with five at 8.56 pounds.

I started at daylight running seawalls looking for a shad spawn but never found one. However, when I cast a swim jig to grass patches between rip-rap, I had four blow-ups, missing all four.  Nothing hit my  spinnerbait, topwater or buzzbait. That made me slow down with a weightless Trick Worm, and I caught my best three keepers in grass between 7:30 and 8:00.

I fished many grassbeds without another bite. Docks produced some short bass on a wacky-rigged Senko but nothing to keep. Although I could see fish holding on boulders, I could not get them to bite. In retrospect, I probably should have tried a drop shot.

At noon, as I went around a flat point between two docks, my fourth and smallest keeper hit a Carolina-rigged Baby Brush Hog.

By 2:00, I had about given up when my fifth keeper hit a shaky head in front of a dock.

Big fish was a 3.81-lb. largemouth caught by Chuck Dennard. He said he decided to try a wacky rig around grass, a rig he had never tried before, and the big one hit it on his first cast with it!

Others caught fish on Carolina-rigged Baby Brush Hogs, shaky heads and crankbaits.