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Bartletts Ferry
Bartletts Ferry, also known as Lake Harding, is a 5,850-acre reservoir on the Chattahoochee River north of Columbus and south of Lake West Point. The lake was built in 1926 and now owned by Georgia Power. Bartletts offers good fishing for spotted bass.
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Bartletts Ferry Fishing Articles
Bartletts Ferry is often overlooked by fishermen heading to bigger lakes, but it is full of hungry spotted bass and largemouth. In October, expect to find these bass feeding in grassbeds, on seawalls and on bluff banks. You can catch them on topwater, jigs, crankbaits and other baits you like to throw. Located on the…
Mickey Peacock has been chasing crappie across Georgia for more than 50 years, and he finally got his giant slab—a black crappie that on certified scales weighed 3.09 pounds. The 71-year-old angler from Lizella caught the huge crappie on April 17 while fishing Bartletts Ferry. Bartletts Ferry, also known as Lake Harding, is a 5,850-acre…
You can catch spots and largemouth all month at Bartletts Ferry—also known as Lake Harding—on a few simple-to-fish patterns. Anglers can run deep rocky banks and steep bluffs that drop fast into deep water to catch bass on a variety of baits from the dam to Blanton Creek up the river. Bartletts Ferry is an…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 7.6 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 70s. Clarity: Mostly clear, with more color up the lake. Bass: Tournament director and competitor Dennis Hudson reports, “Now that the temperatures are falling, the bass are starting to get more active, and the fishing is improving. Most fish are being caught close to the…
Bass fishing is fantastic on all our lakes in April, but you should consider a trip to Bartletts Ferry, also known as Lake Harding. The bass on this small lake are up shallow in pockets and creeks, with some fish spawning and others ready to go on the bed or feeding after spawning. You can…
Bartletts Ferry Records
| Striped Bass | 36-lbs., 5-ozs. | Matt Faircloth | 04/21/05 |
| Hybrid Bass | 9-lbs., 12.8-ozs. | Chris Brackett | 04/26/05 |
| Black Crappie | 3-lbs., 1.44-ozs. | Mickey Peacock | 04/17/20 |
| Yellow Perch | 10.88-ozs. | Joey Pippin | 05/07/07 |
| Shoal Bass | 8-lbs., 5-ozs. | Matt McWhorter | 12/23/21 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 1.28-ozs. | Courtney Cannon | 08/05/24 |