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Lake Blackshear
Lake Blackshear is one of southwest Georgia's premier fishing destinations for bass, crappie, bream, linesides and catfish. The reservoir on the Flint River was created by a dam completed in 1930. The 8,500-acre lake is approximately 20 miles long and varies in width, but is rarely more than one mile wide. The lake borders Crisp, Dooly, Lee, Sumter and Worth counties in southwest Georgia.
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What was supposed to be a standard day with her father transformed into an unforgettable experience for 12-year-old PasileyAnn Barber after she set a benchmark record for channel catfish on Lake Blackshear. PaisleyAnn and her father, Don, have been fishing together since she was only 3 years old. They fish mostly around Lake Eufaula but…
When crappie are stacked up over brush on the river channel ledges at Lake Blackshear, October is a great time to catch them. Find the right place, and you can catch a limit of good eating-size crappie. Crappie love wood cover like brushpiles and standing timber. And if that wood is on a channel drop,…
Blackshear is full of tempting targets. Cypress trees run for miles, and there are grassbeds everywhere. But in January, anglers should bypass that good-looking cover and look instead for rocks near deep water to catch Lake Blackshear bass. You don’t have to run all over the lake to find rock if you know where to…
When Robin Van Dette made her first cast of the day on Lake Blackshear, she immediately knew something big had inhaled the red wiggler she was using for bait. Over the next few minutes and hours, her emotions would go from excitement, to disappointment, to incredible excitement. “My husband Mark and I have a place…
Lake Blackshear has to be one of Georgia’s “fishiest” looking lakes. Everywhere you look, you think… “There’s a bass by that cypress tree, I could catch one out of that grass, those docks look great, and I bet fish feed on that rip-rap.” You will often be right. Blackshear is located on the Flint River…
Blackshear Lake Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 11-lbs., 7.84-ozs. | Scott Holland | 04/01/06 |
| Striped Bass | 35-lbs., 1.6-ozs. | Steve Phillips | 02/03/18 |
| Black Crappie | 3-lbs., 9.28-ozs. | Casey Tanner | 04/13/19 |
| White Crappie | 2-lbs., 15-ozs. | Paula Short | 03/29/07 |
| Flathead Catfish | 39-lbs., 15.04-ozs. | Shannen Kitchens | 09/15/17 |
| Hybrid Bass | 10-lbs., 0.16-ozs. | Billy Myers | 12/23/19 |
| Yellow Perch | 1-lb., 5.6-ozs. | Stephen Lane | 12/11/2020 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 1.44-ozs. | Robin Van Dette | 04/24/22 |
| Shoal Bass | 4-lbs., 2.56-ozs. | Jerrod Brown | 03/05/22 |
| Channel Catfish | 7-lbs., 10-ozs. | PaisleyAnn Barber | 10/09/23 |