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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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Postspawn Bartletts Ferry Bass

We started fishing at 7:10 a.m. By 7:15, Jim was reeling in our first bass of the day — a 1-lb. spotted bass that hit a spinnerbait churning past a dock. At 3:15 p.m. Jim boated our 30th bass of the day, another 1-lb. spot that gulped up a Carolina-rigged worm. Throw in three striped…

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