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Bass Fishing
HD Marine tournament anglers beware… there’s a young ball of fire headed your way for the 2007 tournament season. His name is Ben Cleary. He’s 16 years old, and during his summer vacation he has been warming up his bass-fishing skills on Lake Jackson, where he lives. Besides living on a lake where he can…
The lightning on the horizon leaving the area brought a big sigh of relief. Each bolt illuminated the dark, ominous clouds that were moving rapidly toward the east. Although the severe weather that pelted the area had just passed, rain was still in the forecast. These were the conditions that greeted Randy Dover, Scott Edwards…
Bass fisherman Dennis Smith has decided that there is something to all the hype around bass fishing with a frog. “I swore I wouldn’t use it,” he said. “But people were bringing in big bags of fish caught on the frog. “My friend John Brady and I were fishing together and he was catching fish…
Temperatures soared well into the 90s during the last HD Marine tournament of the 2006 season, but it didn’t hurt the bite for first-place finishers Brad Warfield and Jeff Morgan. The team found fish shallow for the two-day event, which was held June 10-11. On day one the team fished for some topwater fish they’d…
As a kid growing up in western Maryland, one of my favorite summer events was floating the Potomac River in a canoe with my dad, camping on islands in the river, and catching smallmouth bass, red- breast sunfish, and rock bass. When I moved to south Georgia over a decade ago, I figured my days…
Berry’s tournament trail came to a close this weekend after a two-day event. Qualifying anglers fished Saturday on Oconee and Sunday at Sinclair. This year’s Classic winners were Jack Brown and Terry Adams. “The fish at Oconee have moved out deep,” said Terry Adams. “We caught them in the main lake, but the fish weren’t…
Many bass fishermen think June means slower bass fishing as the fast action of spring becomes just a memory. But bass are moving onto predictable patterns and holes this month, and the action can even be better than it was looking for scattered bass in the spring. Lake Sinclair is one of our best lakes…
Ziiiipppp. I heard the drag on Randy Childers’ reel make that distinctive sound that tells anglers they have just hung into something solid. When I turned and looked, Randy’s rod was doubled over, and his line was still. “Stump?” I asked. “Good fish,” Randy replied, not really talking to me as much as affirming the…
Matt Ferman and Ryan Padgett had four fish at 1:45 p.m. in the May 27 Fishers of Men tournament at Bartletts Ferry. “In 15 minutes we caught three, one of them 5 1/2 pounds,” said Matt. The team started the day up the Chattahoochee River. They keyed on shady banks with spinnerbaits and topwater plugs.…
Charlie Baldwin and Benny Lanning took first place in the May 20 R&R tournament at Sinclair. “We were keying on shallow grass, and both of us were throwing a spinnerbait,” said Charlie. “There were still a few shad in the grass, but that bite is about gone.” Charlie was throwing a white 3/8-oz. Ol’ Nellie…