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Bass Fishing
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…
No, you didn’t accidentally pick up a copy of Lake Michigan Angler. Yes, there’s an article in GON about hair jigs. Before you tear out these pages for the whelping box, trust this angler-of-the-south when I tell you there’s something about this old-fashioned lure that flat out catches fish. Around these parts, few anglers are…
Lake Blackshear has a split personality — too far north to be a true south Georgia lake with all shallow water and swampy conditions, but far enough south that cypress trees line the banks and lily pads and hyacinths fill the shallows. Even in the hottest weather you can catch bass in all kinds of…
Mid-summer bass fishing in reservoirs usually means looking for the deepest structure you can find and throwing the deepest-running lure in the tacklebox to get down to the bass. However, if you know how to fish aquatic vegetation, you can stay away from the deep-water fishing and still put bass in the boat all day.…
Justin Dooley, of Rayle, could see the giant, 14-lb. largemouth suspended on the top of a log under the bridge at Lake Winfield Scott. This 18-acre lake is in Union County and is federally managed. While fishing from the bank, Justin was trying to get the big female to bite a six-inch, Texas-rigged Zoom worm…
When the Okefenokee Bass Anglers in Waycross was a fledgling club in the late 1990s, there were only two anglers who were proficient with a spinning outfit. Some of the guys did not even own a spinning reel. During the summer months, when the majority of the bass were in the main run of the…