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Bass Fishing
The rock stars of the professional bass fishing world are coming to Lake Hartwell as the reservoir plays host to the 2015 Bassmaster Classic Feb. 20-22. No Georgians qualified for this year’s event, but top pros like Aaron Martens and Skeet Reese will be fishing. Last year’s winner, Randy Howell, of Springville, Ala., returns with…
How’s this for a win-win? Lanier is world famous for its spotted bass fishery, and we got Georgia’s top pro angler to mark a map with 10 February locations to catch big spots. Lanier has always been a good spot lake; then blueback herring were introduced into the reservoir. Conditions were perfect for the spots…
What angler hasn’t yearned for private bass waters? A lake where access is limited, the bass grow big and fat, and where there are no irritating pleasure boaters buzzing by all day. While that is a dream for almost all of us who love to bass fish, anglers can actually find those conditions at a…
West Point is an excellent lake to have fun catching bass right now, especially if you follow the tips of a local expert who can catch winter bass shallow, deep and in between. West Point, located on the Chattahoochee River along the Georgia-Alabama border, has a good population of both spotted bass and largemouth. It…
October is a great month for bass fishermen. Cooling water this month makes the bass start their fall migration following shad, and bass are more often than not feeding aggressively. Officially known as Walter F. George Reservoir, but typically called Lake Eufaula by anglers, this is one of the best lakes in the Southeast to…
When you think about world-class spotted bass fishing, Lake Lanier probably instantly comes to mind. Just a little farther north is Lake Burton, a beautiful, much less crowded lake that is full of big spots. Burton boasts the current state-record spot, an 8-lb., 2-oz. beauty caught by Wayne Holland in 2005. Burton has some huge…
In my experiences with guide Lee Pitts, he is one of the most optimistic members of the fishing community around Lake Weiss. So when he welcomed me with the “It’s tough” warning on a trip to Lake Weiss in late July, I knew the fishing must indeed be slow. Despite ideal mid-summer fishing conditions—air temperatures…
Clarks Hill largemouth are a different breed. I was there a couple of weeks ago with Jon Hair, a regular on the tournament scene on this east Georgia reservoir, and we had a blast on an 85-degree afternoon catching topwater schoolies in 50 feet of water over hydrilla beds. There was no difficulty when it…
The cooler mornings we had in mid August, with temperatures only in the upper 60s, gave bass fishermen hope that September fishing would be better than normal. Early in the month, bass fishing can be tough. But even under tough conditions, the spotted bass at Lake Jackson will bite, and you can catch some good…
A pair of anglers in a July 12 bass-club tournament at Banks Lake bought an 11 1/2-lb. bass and presented it for the tourney weigh-in. They might have even gotten away with it, but apparently the agreed-upon price for the fish changed when the pair didn’t win as much money as they thought they would.…