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Bass Fishing
Bass and grass. Just the thought of a largemouth slamming a spinnerbait or buzzbait in the grass gets the blood flowing, and Lake Weiss is one of the best lakes to find that kind of excitement right now. Bass stay shallow and feed in the grassbeds during June. Lake Weiss is a 30,200-acre Alabama Power…
Rob Wimberly and Sam Harris have been fishing together for most of their lives. First as kids in a jonboat near their Athens homes and more recently as a formidable team on the tournament trails around the state. These guys have an excellent tournament record with top-three finishes in four out of their last eight…
This season I entered some of the BASS Elite Series bass tournaments as a co-angler, the first tournament being the Citrus Slam on the Toho/Kissimmee Chain. I fished a BASS Open there last year on the pro side and was excited about going back. The Day Before: The pairings’ meeting is way out in the…
Mike Harris of Watkinsville dodged high wind on Hartwell May 12 to win his Round 4 Skeeter Eliminator Series match-up with Daryl Adams of Senoia. “You had to be on points that didn’t have real strong wind. The waves were so big on some that the fish couldn’t zero in very good,” said Mike. On…
After an impressive weigh-in attendance at Berry’s and a day where our Elite 8 anglers spent time looking over their shoulders at spectator boats, the highly anticipated, much-talked-about Aaron Batson/Mike Cleveland Skeeter Eliminator Series fishing match at Lake Jackson is in the books. Aaron won the event with a 10.09-lb. limit, a nice bag consisting…
May fishing is good anywhere you go in Georgia, but blueback herring have made Clarks Hill one of the best bets in the state to catch big largemouth this month. Fueled by spawning her- ring, postspawn bass are hitting on top, the most exciting way to catch bass. You can’t go wrong with a trip…
Don’t you just love May? So many things go on this time of year that it’s hard to figure out just what to do on a sunny day. How about getting up before daylight, pulling the boat to Lake Oconee and being on the water, lights on and ready to catch bass as the first…
Lake Sidney Lanier, north of Atlanta, is usually one of the busiest lakes in the state. The shoreline is densely populated, and there are pleasure boats and water craft churning the surface from mid-morning through most of the day during the summer months. At times the chop created by all the activity can make it…
More than most Georgia lakes, Lake Blackshear is what a bass fisherman would call a “target-rich” environment. Everywhere there are grassbeds, cypress trees, logs, stumps and docks that all look like they hold bass. Fishing cypress trees is the basic pattern at Blackshear in the spring, according to Clint Brownlee of Tifton, a tournament angler…
Pouring rain didn’t hinder the Georgia Bass Chapter Federation Youth Top-Six Championship held April 5 at Lake Sinclair. Fishing from the same boat, Brandon Curl of the Bryan County Jr. Bassmasters won the 15- to 18-year-old age group with 10.67 pounds, and Mark Denney Jr. of Central Georgia Bassmasters weighed in 10.6 pounds to…