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Bass Fishing
October 10, the coldest morning Georgia had seen this fall of 2000, and here I was going bass fishing. Terrific. In the dawn light, as I headed west through Floyd County toward Lake Weiss, I could see frost on the grass in the pastures. A great morning to be sitting in a deer stand, I…
You just know August bass fishing after a long, hot, dry summer is going to be tough. You probably don’t think of Sinclair as a good place to go, unless you are planning a night trip to fish lighted docks. But Sinclair may surprise you. Mike Blackshear and Rick Compton brought six bass weighing 16.7…
To the smallmouth, the small red jig darting just off the bottom of a rocky Lake Blue Ridge point must have looked like a crayfish or a yellow perch trying to escape. With a flick of its tail it surged forward and hit the jig. On the other end of the fishing line, sitting in…
Springtime is just a beautiful time ti be in the Peach State. The dogwoods are blooming, the turkeys are gobbling an< on Clarks Hill the blueback-herring spawn is just days away. What this translate; into for the bass angler is that big, aggressive largemouth bass will be following these delectable little baitfish to the spawning…
With a twitch of the rod tip, the long, skinny plug darts and wiggles seductively on the surface. The next twitch, a bit sharper, makes the tiny prop at the back of the plug gurgle and the propeller sends water flying back over the front of the lure. For the angler on the other end…
His job may have taken him to Tennessee, but Tim Adrien, formerly of Macon, still makes it back to Lake Juliette several times a year in search of trophy stripers. On March 23, 2000, all the miles driven and long hours of fishing paid off for Tim in the form of a 40-lb., 8-oz., striper…
The long-standing record for the heaviest largemouth bass ever caught from Lake Eufaula is a 16 1/2-lb. bass. John B. Giles reeled in the Eufaula bass on March 12, 1980. John’s bass is also one of the biggest ever recorded from Georgia, ranking in the Top-15 on GON’s official records of the heaviest largemouth caught…
Cameraman Eric Thornton had just focused the camera on me and Rick Wright as we stood in the front of Rick’s boat on Lake Chatuge to film an opening for the GON-TV segment on jigging spoons for bass. We both held fishing rods, and our spoons dangled 40 feet beneath the boat as I began:…
Buddy Callahan says that bass fishing for Carters Lake spotted bass is a “challenge.” A lot of other fishermen who have spent time trying to catch a bass on this lake use much stronger language to describe the fishing. Bass fishing on this deep, clear-water lake is often cussed — even by the locals. The…
GON editor Brad Gill joins Augusta’s Tim Rupert for a day of topwater fishing for Clarks Hill bass. The trip took place on June 9, 1999 as most of the largemouth bass were in a postspawn mode, but the blueback herring spawn was just getting started. Tim and Brad fished a Sammy and buzzbait for…