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Lake Allatoona
Lake Allatoona is a 12,010-acre reservoir in the north Atlanta suburbs located primarily in Bartow and Cherokee counties. The major tributaries are the Etowah and Little rivers and Allatoona and Stamp creeks, although numerous other creeks flow into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers impoundment. Allatoona is known as a good lake for catching numbers of spotted bass, and it's also known for good striped bass and hybrid bass. Allatoona is a very busy lake for recreational boaters during the summer, when many bass anglers opt to fish at night.
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Allatoona: Level: 1.2 feet above 840. Temp: 66-72 degrees. Clarity: Clear to a light stain. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “Fishing for the month of May is great. This month bass are postspawn and keying on shad and the shad spawn. The shad spawn occurs at night and usually ends shortly after daybreak. Threadfin typically spawn on hard surfaces, like rock and rip-rap. Blueback herring will spawn on red clay banks. During these times, fishing a jerkbait and walking-style topwater bait is the way to go. Fish are super aggressive and feeding up. Once the shad spawn bite is…
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Not everyone can afford to buy and maintain a boat. Don’t let it get you down. There’s people out there by the truckloads who don’t own a boat, and they’re not letting it stop them from catching a cooler-full of fish. They just take a bucket, plop themselves down on it and do their fishing…
On February 15,. 2002, Clint Hight of Adairsville set a new lake record for stripers on Lake Allatoona- his 42-lb. lineside beat Gary Sosebee’s 1995 record by 2 1/2 pounds. Clint was bass fishing out of his Triton just below the mouth of Illinois Creek on the Etowah River arm when he got a strong…
When it’s the dead of winter, fishermen cry about the cold and the slow techniques it takes to catch a few bass. By August we’re cursing the Georgia sun, and we’re dreaming of mild days and aggressive, easy-to-catch bass. Well those days are here right now. The month of May has to be one of…
Have you seen The Perfect Storm? I did. Not the movie, the real thing. It hit the Allatoona Creek arm of Lake Allatoona on April 14. The irony of the weather that day was almost as surprising as the sustained winds and how low the temperatures got. It was about as bad a January day…
With seven years of the annual Moby-In-The-Morning Bass Tournament in the books, there are several things you can count on for this Lake Allatoona event: a huge field of anglers including the top locals, a weigh-in before the biggest crowd of spectators you’ll see at a tournament, and hefty sacks of bass for the top…
Allatoona Lake Records
| Largemouth Bass | 16-lbs., 9-ozs. | Greg Rymer | 08/31/82 |
| Spotted Bass | 7-lbs., 11-ozs. | George Clark | 11/18/74 |
| Hybrid Bass | 13-lbs., 9.5-ozs. | Danny Alsobrook | 02/07/90 |
| Striped Bass | 42-lbs. | Clint Hight | 02/15/02 |
| Black Crappie | 3-lbs., 7.36-ozs. | Corey Harmon | 03/05/22 |
| White Bass | 3-lbs., 2-ozs. | Darrell Baxter | 05/15/94 |
| Flathead Catfish | 35-lbs., 10.88-ozs. | Sandy Sanders | 06/20/08 |
| Blue Catfish | 52-lbs., 1-oz. | Aaron Churchwell | 10/27/20 |
| Tiger Trout | 2-lbs., 12.8-ozs. | Bob Geresti | 02/01/18 |
| Yellow Perch | 1-lb., 1.44-ozs. | David Brewer | 12/02/23 |
| White Crappie | 3-lbs., 4.24-ozs. | Cody Hopkins | 02/10/22 |
| Longnose Gar | 27-lbs., 4-ozs. | Caleb McClure | 06/24/23 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 5-ozs. | Dan Huizinga | 04/20/24 |
Etowah River Records
| Largemouth Bass | 7-lbs., 7.68-ozs. | Eric Black | 01/27/2016 |
| Flathead Catfish | 38-lbs., 0.8-ozs. | John Morgado | 05/17/2022 |
| Blue Catfish | 50-lbs. | Seth Shoults | 04/21/23 |
| Striped Bass | 38-lbs. | Keith Cole | 05/1994 |
| Yellow Perch | 1-lb., 10.2-ozs. | Eric Black | 01/14/2015 |
| Longnose Gar | 19-lbs., 4.64-ozs. | Kyle Williams | 08/08/2018 |
| Spotted Bass | 4-lbs., 0.5-ozs. | Jackson Sibley | 03/21/2022 |
| Rainbow Trout | 2-lbs. | Todd West | 10/01/2020 |
| Channel Catfish | 7-lbs. | Seth Shoults | 04/21/23 |