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Bass Fishing
Lake Jackson is an excellent choice for a December trip if you want to catch a mixture of largemouths and spotted bass. The populations of both seem to be on an upswing this year, and they are easy to pattern this month. A typical December trip will produce several largemouth up to 5 pounds and…
The big spotted bass at Lake Lanier will be feeding a lot this month, getting ready for winter. They will be on predictable patterns that you can take advantage of and catch them. November is one of the best months to be on the lake, and several patterns will work. The arrival of blueback herring…
The look exchanged by my fishing partner and I was one of surprise, almost shock… a “can you believe that” kind of look. It was late afternoon on a beautiful mid-October day on Lake Russell. What could we possibly have seen that was so surprising? It was another boat, the first and only boat we…
Mike Tuten of Augusta, tired of his runner-up finishes in many local bass tournaments, has finally fulfilled a burning desire to make the prestigious Mr. Clark Hill Bass Fishing Championship his first major victory. On October 1 on Clarks Hill Lake, the Richmond County Fire Department lieutenant weighed in five largemouth bass totaling 14.9 pounds…
When GON picks a lake to write a bass fishing feature on, several criteria come into play when selecting an angler — or anglers — to spotlight. Knowledge of the lake and success on it come into play. Notoriety is another aspect that comes to mind. Sometimes the author, in this case yours truly, gets…
If you like fishing for bass around shallow cover, Lake Weiss is like heaven on earth. It is full of grass, logs, stumps and rip-rap. This month bass will be using the shallow cover to feed up and get ready for the winter, and you can catch them on anything you want to throw there.…
From a planning point of view everything had been going just fine. The assignment seemed to be straightforward enough. Head down to Lake Juliette just north of Macon and do an article on fall bass fishing. I had always wanted to fish Juliette. This 3,600-acre reservoir has a good reputation for largemouth, with quite a…
August 27, 2005: Berry’s, Sinclair Joe Pennone, of Warner Robins, and Chad Cleghorn, from Marshallville, had a five-fish limit going 15.93 pounds and won the August, 2005 Berry’s bass tourney at Sinclair. “They won it flipping docks with jigs in eight to 10 feet of water,” said Bobby Berry, tournament director. “Green pumpkin with a green…
Good reservoir bass fishermen get used to boat traffic. They know that the bass live with churned-up water every day, and they still have to eat. For such a small lake, Tobesofkee gets a lot of boat traffic, and it still produces some amazing catches of bass. You can catch bass on Tobesofkee most days…
The sun was still below the eastern treeline as we chunked topwater lures in Newton County’s Lake Varner. We were hoping one of the lake’s notorious big largemouths, or an aggressive hybrid, would strike. The reservoir was slicked out — bad conditions for topwater strikes — but it sure made for a peaceful beginning to…