Advertisement
Bass Fishing
I love rivers. I always have. For some reason, I am strangely drawn to them. There is something peaceful yet exciting about a river’s ever-moving waters. From deep, slow-moving pools to shallow, fast-flowing riffles, each river has its own characteristics that make it unique and special. Unlike reservoirs, rivers are usually not very crowded. In…
David Millsaps moves to the finals of The Eliminator Series — and a guarantee of $1,000 and a shot at the $2,500 first-place prize — after beating Steven Phillips at Lake Lanier on a cloudy, cool day in mid September. The Eliminator Series is GON’s unique heads-up bass fishing tournament where anglers compete one-on-one in…
Summertime, weekend fishing tournaments have been banned from corps facilities on Lake Allatoona, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Meanwhile, a $50 special-use permit fee will be implemented at Allatoona next year, and any tournament held out of a corps facility is required to have 100 percent payback. The special regulations do not…
When we arrived at the east ramp parking lot at Lake Horton in Fayette County, I was surprised to see that the lake was about four feet below full pool. Having been there just three weeks earlier, it was apparent the rain deficit was taking its toll on the 780-acre water-supply reservoir. However, the low-water…
On a Friday evening in late August, pleasure boats were buzzing in all directions over the bumpy surface of Lake Lanier. Apparently lots of folks had left work early and were squeezing in as much outdoor time as possible before things began to settle down for the winter. Tully Youngblood and I were perched on…
Even Oconee’s best crankin’ fishermen were shaking their heads in August. It was just too darn hot for good concentrations of fish to hold in water shallow enough that they could be caught cranking. “When I’m cranking, I like the fish about 15 to 18 feet deep,” said Shawn Malcom. “I feel like the fish…
It’s one of the biggest bass-fishing tournaments in the nation — BFL’s All-American. Kip Carter from Oxford finished third at this year’s All-American, an accomplishment that’s a really big deal. This year’s All-American took place July 6-8 on the Connecticut River. Family and friends joined Kip each day at the weigh-ins. The Carter clan were…
All across north Georgia, there has been an explosion of big spotted bass in lakes where blueback herring have been introduced. The spots have taken to these open-water baitfish and have grown fat and heavy. Carters Lake was one of the first to see this change, and it is still one of our best lakes…
Craig Johnson is one of the most confident anglers I’ve ever had the pleasure of being in the boat with. “I can put the camera down there and show you 50 fish. You can sit there for three hours and not have a bite and then all of a sudden they turn on and you…
You read it right, “Go Deep for Weiss Summer Bass.” If you are familiar with this 30,000-acre impoundment of the Coosa River on the Georgia/Alabama border near Rome that might sound a little strange. Lake Weiss has a reputation, among those who know it, of being shallow; sometimes dangerously so. This lake has claimed many…