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Bass Fishing
Our Sinclair match-up will face two red-hot tournament guys against each other. Jim Beavers of Manchester enters The Eliminator Series following a top-20 finish at the Stren Series event at West Point in February. He’s confident at Sinclair. “I fished there for 25 years,” said Jim. “In early March, if those fish will move up,…
Have you heard that new song? It starts out kind of slow… the beat like water gently lapping the front of a jon boat, the melody set to the gentle hum of a trolling motor. But the chorus? Definitely more upbeat with the swish of rods cutting through the air on hook-sets, the grunts of…
Lake Burton, with its deep, gin-clear water, has earned the reputation of being a tough bass-fishing lake most of the year. There are two months that are an exception, however, and those months are April and May, according to Wayne Holcomb of Lakemont. “April and May are the two best months on Burton,” he said.…
Jackie Alderman and I had been fishing on Lake Seminole for all of about two minutes when the first fish hit. We had pulled up to a sandbar in five or six feet of water within sight of the Jim Woodruff Dam and had begun to throw a Carolina-rigged Junebug lizard. On his second cast,…
My first trip to Lake Jackson was in April of 2000. I was filming tournament pro Eric Perkins and GON editor Daryl Kirby for GON-TV. Right off the bat Eric caught a 4-lb. largemouth on a Bang-O-Lure. The bite never stopped. All day bass hit Flukes, spinnerbaits, worms, jigs, whatever hit the water. It was…
As the summer heat begins to drive water temperatures well into the 80s, there will be a bass pattern developing on Clarks Hill that not too many bass anglers ever take advantage of. We’ll be talking with David Smith of Lincolnton, one of the lake’s top club fishermen, about how and where he is catching…
What is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and is able to leap several feet out of the water with a single bound? If you guessed Superman, thanks for playing. Enjoy your parting gifts. What I’m talking about is a Georgia fishing treasure: the smallmouth bass. A largemouth is a sneak…
The 2006 Top Six tournament drew almost 500 of Georgia top bass-club fishermen and women to Clarks Hill Lake April 24-25, and for most it was a surprisingly tough two days of fishing. The tournament featured the debut of the new Harry Hall Memorial Cup that goes to the state’s top bass club in the…
David Matthews couldn’t believe his bad luck. Just minutes into a 150-boater on Clarks Hill, this local boy’s strategy hit a brick wall. In practice he’d found several bass on the bed, including a 4 1/2-pounder by a stump that he hoped would still be locked down and ready to jump on a tube bait.…
Dennis Hudson says he used to carry tons of fishing tackle when he went fishing, and most of it he never used. These days, when he heads out on a fishing trip, he is likely to have four rods rigged with just the things that catch fish. On March 18, Dennis and I eased away…