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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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If you like fishing shallow for bass in June, Bartletts Ferry Lake is a good choice. It has grassbeds, docks, blowdowns, brushpiles, rocks, and seawalls that all attract bass this month. And the bass are hungry and feeding heavily in all those areas, so they are generally easy to catch. Bartletts Ferry is a relatively…
More fish have qualified recently for GON‘s Lake & River Records list. GON compiles record fish weights for 36 Georgia lakes and rivers. The complete list was most recently published in the March 2005 issue. The lists continue to change, with new entries ranging from a striped bass at Bartletts Ferry to a new walleye…
My itch to begin fishing usually begins with the first warm day in February. The temperature rises close to 60 or so, and I can’t help but think that the fish are as eager to get started feeding as I am to get out there and take advantage of them. Combine this urge with the…
Bartletts Ferry is one of the best lakes around for fishing deep structure in September. The lake is full of shallow points that border deep water, a prime place to find fall bass. If you like probing points for bass, Bartletts is the place. Also known as Lake Harding, Bartletts Ferry is an old lake on the Chattahoochee River along the Georgia/Alabama line with…
The third fish was our best bass of the day. Jim Stutts, a 15-year veteran on Bartletts Ferry, and I were dragging jig ’n pigs off rocks on a main-lake point on the south side of the mouth of Halawakee Creek. A white house with black trim sat on the point, behind a 2-level dock.…
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 |