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Bass Fishing
My love affair with lead-headed, rubber or hair-skirted lures known as jigs started in 1987 when my girlfriend at the time gave me a jig-head mold for Christmas. Teresa is now my wife, and hundreds of thousands of jigs later there are times when she wishes she had not given me that original mold due…
Ken Greene of Lumpkin knows a lot about cooking chicken, being the owner of three Zaxby’s restaurants, but he also knows just as much about bass fishing. Since GON is a hunting and fishing publication, we’re going to stick to the bass-fishing topics today. Living just minutes away from Florence Marina on the north end…
“Look at that,” said Joffer, motioning toward the screen of his graph. “That’s what I like to see — it looks like spaghetti.” His Lowrance color graph showed a jumble of string-like arches just off the bottom in 38 feet of water. “There,” he said, “That’s my spoon,” he said, indicating a descending blip on…
It was a brutally cold day last February. Bass-tournament angler Mike York wanted to go fishing real bad, but he decided to wait until about 10:30 a.m. to leave his Jackson house and head to the ramp. “I went straight to the powerlines,” said Mike. The powerline area is a local favorite for many at…
Yes, Lake Lanier is down to the lowest level in its 50-year history, more than 20 feet below full pool. But there is still water more than 100 feet deep in lots of places. The bad news for fisher- men is there are few ramps open, and it is very hard to find a place…
By this time of year, the lakes are getting cold, and bass are not feeding as well as they did earlier in the fall. Colder water means they are less active and more likely to be holding in deep- er water. However, a few warm winter days can turn the bass on, and you can…
The Altamaha River is at record lows, with rarely seen sandbars and rockpiles popping up along its length. There are two primary ways to navigate the river during such low water. The first is to poke around cautiously in small, preferably aluminum, boats and motors, and fish where you can. That is how I typically…
Lake Allatoona, north of Atlanta, has long been known as a tough lake to fish. The deep, clear water is relatively free of natural structure, and you had better know what you are doing and where the planted brush is or you are going to have a long day with limited activity. But for those…
The Skeeter Eliminator Series bass-tournament trail has a brand-new champ. Butch Pitts of Watkinsville bested Mark Holloway of Madison in a head-to-head championship event on Friday, Nov. 9 at Lake Oconee. Butch had a pair of bass that weighed 4.86 pounds, beating out Mark’s one keeper that weighed 1.72 pounds. “I would have never thought…
Glenn Goodson casts a long shadow. He is a tower of a man who teaches at Callaway Middle School. In addition to his duties as a math teacher, he is a coach for the school’s baseball and football teams. On the water, he is quite a professor as well. His extensive knowledge of bass and…