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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 – November 2024

By GON Staff | October 30, 2024

Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.6 feet below 521. Temp: Mid 60s. Clarity: Light stain to clear. Bass: Tournament angler Tyler Morgan, with Summerland Outdoors, and his partner won the Backwaters Championship on Bartletts Ferry the end of October with 13.07 pounds and had big fish with a 4.03-lb. largemouth. In November at Bartletts Ferry, the bass are keying heavily on shad, and fall is in full effect. Target the main feeder creeks early with a buzzbait with a toad or swimbait paired with it. Follow up with a bladed jig in a natural shad color. A squarebill, such as a Berkley Frittside in shad color, can be extremely productive on rocky areas. The shad are in the creeks. You just have to find out how far back. Typically, when you see balls of bait all over the surface, you are in the right area. Powerfish until the sun gets high, and…

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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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