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Bass Fishing
Keep it simple. That’s Joe Ludwig’s approach when it comes to a winning strategy for bass fishing on Clarks Hill this time of year. I fished the lake with Joe on January 10, 2006, and we fished all day with just two baits: a lead-head fluke and a jig ’n pig. According to Joe that’s…
It was a Friday in January that felt for all the world like a Friday in April. However, in just a few hours, a bad-looking storm that had barrelled through the Great Plains was supposed to rip across Georgia, bringing heavy rains, cold temperatures, gale-force winds and a chance of snow with it. This is…
Robert Nicolai set the hook on his third Lake Oconee keeper in only seven minutes of fishing. He turned around and shook his head. “Something told me this is where they’d be today,” he said. It was a little after 4:30 p.m., and we had been in the boat since daylight. The weather was perfect…
It is the dead of winter. Water temperatures are below 50 degrees, and the weather fronts are coming through back to back driving the barometer up and down on an almost daily basis. This is tough fishing at its best. Where would you go to find bass? In most Georgia reservoirs the faithful will go…
I remember the planning meeting when the GON editorial staff was sitting around a table deciding which lakes to hit in February. Brad Gill, the in-house Lake Varner expert said, “February is the time to go roll a big un.” I was pleased to draw such a plum assignment because I had never had the…
Will the Georgia Bass Chapter Federation (GBCF) continue to be part of the Bass Angler’s Sportsman Society (BASS) or will it become part of FLW Outdoors? A few years ago that thought would have never occurred to anyone in the State Federation, but recent actions by BASS have made some anglers upset enough that an…
The day on Lake Allatoona was perfectly suited for duck hunting. A storm had dumped two inches of rain across much of the state for the previous day and a half, and the low, slate-gray clouds overhead continued to open intermittently during the trip. The weatherman had predicted temperatures in the 40s, but I must…
January weather here in Georgia often makes bass fishermen dream of a trip to Florida. But you donat Lake Seminole. There the bass fishing is often way ahead of the rest of our state. Seminole is a shallow, flat lake with lots of grass and channels snaking through spawning flats. There are stumps and standing…
Nothing heats up a cold winter day like a bass on the end of the line. Two of the best ways to catch that instant heat are jigging spoons and crankbaits. These two classic cold-water hard lures can warm up a winter day in a hurry when the bass turn on. Working these two baits,…
“December is my favorite month to fish Sinclair,” Benny Lanning said as he threw a chrome-and-blue Rat-L-Trap toward a secondary point. “And when it’s drawn down, it is the hottest fishery you’ll ever find.” The good news for anglers ready to hit the middle Georgia reservoir this month is the lake will be drawn down…