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Bass Fishing
After nearly six months of waiting, Japan’s Manabu Kurita is taking his place alongside Georgia angler George Perry in the record books. With a 22-lb., 4-oz. largemouth bass caught July 2, 2009, Manabu will now share the coveted all-tackle world record with Perry, whose famous fish was caught more than 77 years ago. In January,…
February can be a frustrating month for bass fishermen. A few warm days hint at spring and make the bass start feeding, and then a cold front shuts them down. But there is a way to temper this frustration — head south to Blackshear where warming temperatures will keep the bass feeding more consistently this month.…
February is my favorite month for big bass. That is a bold statement, but it has proven true over and over during the last three decades. Bass have been growing eggs since fall, cold weather pulled them off into a winter pattern, but their instinct tells them that any day it will be time to…
January isn’t normally a time you’d think of bass boats zooming back and forth across the lake trying to win the big tournament of the weekend. But, there are still a few anglers who put all other passions aside and are determined to catch fish 365 days of the year. Regardless of the frigid, wintry…
In January, most bass fishermen are at home where it is nice and warm, cleaning reels and sharpening hooks while dreaming of bass fishing. They’re missing out on good bass fishing at Lake Russell, particularly for numbers of spotted bass that stack up on the edges of the underwater timber. Russell was built in 1984,…
Over the years, Craig Miller, of Canton, has taken an annual trip to fish Dale Hollow Reservoir in Tennessee. Craig and his family meet there to go after the big smallmouth bass. Most years he’d head up in early spring, but about eight years ago, he made the trip in the dead of winter. On…
Tired of running all over big lakes and burning gas while trying to catch bass? For a change, try High Falls Lake, a small state-park lake between Griffin and Jackson, where the bass feed heavily in December, and you can land some quality fish. High Falls is a 650-acre lake located a few miles east…
At Oconee the shad are moving into the pockets, and the bass follow and feed aggressively. If you are a bass fisherman, you have to love November. The weather is usually decent for fishing, the bass are shallow and feeding, and there are few other fishermen and pleasure boaters on the water. All that leads…
Hundreds of miles from the nearest rapid waters of north Georgia lies a stretch of the Flint River reminiscent of anything but south Georgia. Tall river banks and steep clay and rock walls tower high above some of the fastest-moving water south of the gnat line. When one thinks of south Georgia fishing, what normally…
Bass fishermen love October. Cool days and the disappearance of skiers and pleasure boaters make fishing fun again. Plus, many sportsmen are now spending time in the woods. This time of year we can actually be the first to fish a hole after sunrise. And best of all, the bass are responding to the cooling…