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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 Report – May 2025

By GON Staff | April 30, 2025

Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1 foot below 521. Temp: Upper 70s to low 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tournament angler Tyler Morgan reports, “You can still catch some good males guarding fry. Look for balls of fry back in bedding pockets and cast a wacky-rigged green-pumpkin Senko and let it fall through them. Another great May tactic is to look for bream beds and fish a buzzbait or popping frog over them under low-light conditions. When the sun is bright, work your weightless Senko through them. Also start hitting docks back in the bream bedding areas. Skip your Senko to the darkest areas you can hit. Current plays a big role in May, too. You can catch quality largemouth and spots on rocky bluff banks in the Idlehour area. Work a brown Ace Tackle jig down the rocks fishing with the current, and keep it in contact with the rocks down to 20…

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Bartletts Ferry Fishing Articles

Bass Found Deep On Bartletts Ferry For Fishers Of Men Tourney

It was awesome to get our Fishers of Men Georgia South Division season started on Jan. 29. After rescheduling from the prior weekend as a result of COVID and a potential winter storm, it was good to get the season going. We had a great Friday night with Brent Janney being the speaker. I had…

Bartletts Ferry Bass Mapped For October

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…

Slab Tops 3 Pounds To Set Bartletts Ferry Crappie Record

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…

Rock Banks, Bluffs For Bartletts Ferry Bass

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 Fishing Report – November 2019

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…

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