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Bass Fishing
January’s cold temperatures reduce boat traffic, but that cold only increases spotted bass activity on Lake Allatoona. Fish rocks and brush in ditches and channel edges 25 to 30 feet deep for numbers of fish, or go deeper for bigger fish. Either way, it is a good time to be on Allatoona. With 12,000 acres…
Georgia has stocked 2,000, 10-inch largemouth bass into West Point Lake, and fishermen will be able to tell if they catch one of those fish. The bass carry a brand that makes them easy to identify. “We freeze brand them with dry ice,” said Brent Hess, Fisheries Biologist II from the District I office in…
It’s often been said that fishermen are the biggest advocates in the preservation of the very fish they set out to catch. Members of the Georgia College Bass Fishing Team certainly proved that Monday as nearly a dozen of them worked to get a bass—later guessed by WRD Fisheries biologists as a cross between an…
December is a great month to fish hydrilla beds for quality largemouth. At Seminole? No, at Lake Sinclair! Hydrilla showed up in the river at Sinclair a few years ago and is now widespread all over the lake. It has greatly influenced the bass population, making the average tournament limit increase in weight quite a…
Kristine Fisher, who is orginally from Nebraska but now lives on the road fishing tournaments and producing social-media content, became the first female to earn one of the most prestigious titles in professional tournament kayak fishing with a win at Lake Eufaula this weekend. The 2021 Hobie Bass Open Series (BOS) Tournament of Champions was…
Some anglers pay hefty fees to join a trophy bass pond for a chance to reel in a 10-lb. plus bass. But for the price of a fishing license, Georgia anglers can drop a line in Ocmulgee PFA, near Cochran, and have a chance to reel in a trophy bass of a lifetime. However, no…
If you’ve never headed to the mountains to fish Blue Ridge, the scenery this month is well worth the trip. The fishing is great, too. Fish the herring migration pattern this month at Blue Ridge, and you’ll catch big spotted bass, and throw in some largemouth and maybe a smallmouth. Herring imitations fished on rocky…
Lake Blackshear has to be one of Georgia’s “fishiest” looking lakes. Everywhere you look, you think… “There’s a bass by that cypress tree, I could catch one out of that grass, those docks look great, and I bet fish feed on that rip-rap.” You will often be right. Blackshear is located on the Flint River…
When the inaugural Abu Garcia Bassmaster High School Combine kicks off on Oct. 15, there will be 85 gifted high school anglers from 28 states who will have the opportunity to showcase their talents for a host of colleges. The coaches from 20 colleges that offer fishing scholarships will be on hand at the three-day…
Georgia is home 10 species of black bass. The two most common, which most anglers are familiar with, are the largemouth and spotted species. The remaining eight are smallmouth, shoal, Suwannee, redeye, Chattahoochee, Tallapoosa, Altamaha and the Bartram’s. If you catch five of the 10 in one calendar year, you have become eligible to be…