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Bass 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…
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…
April bass fishing is what we have been dreaming of all winter. Make your dreams come true with a trip to West Point this month. West Point is a 25,900-acre U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Alabama/Georgia line. It has a lot of good spawning pockets off the Chattahoochee River and major feeder…
Jake Mims, a 17-year-old junior at Alexander High school in Douglasville, recently turned his love and passion for fishing into a Scholarship at Bryan Collage. Jake has had a passion for fishing for a long time. He started fishing around the age of 4. When he was 8 years old, Jake got a first-place win in…
Cal Culpepper and Parker Marshall, both 16 years old, took first place in the Georgia B.A.S.S Nation High School fishing tournament at West Point Lake on Saturday, March 12. After the win, they drove across the state and finished ninth in Sunday’s 2016 TBF/FLW High School Fishing Georgia State Championship on Clarks Hill Reservoir. The two…
Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield (FS/HAAF) is located near the city of Savannah and serves as home to the United States Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. However, it is also home to some great fishing opportunities, and it is open to the public. This 285,000-acre installation hosts a variety of managed recreational fishing ponds, two rivers and…
Everybody gets excited about March Madness, but for bass fishermen it has nothing to do with basketball. Big bass move shallow this month, and March is an excellent time to catch a lot of bass with a good chance at a personal best. Lake Oconee is one of your best bets in the state for…
There are five things this article is going to do for you. And improving on an increasing trend here at GON, this article will be enhanced with supporting video. This article is about catching stripers on Lake Lanier in March. Much of what you find here applies in one way or another to stripers in…
March is a great month to go fishing just about anywhere in Georgia. Warming waters turn fish on, and they move shallow and feed. With so many great choices, it can be hard to pick one place to go. Consider Bartletts Ferry, also known as Lake Harding, on the Chattahoochee River just south of West…