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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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The Georgia Bass Chapter Federation (GBCF) Youth Division held their 2015 Junior State Championship Tournament at Lake Blackshear on March 14, 2015.Under the TBF/FLW program, the best young anglers from junior bass clubs in Georgia competed for bragging rights and the opportunity to represent Georgia at the Nationals. Three youth clubs sent their top anglers (ages…
Bass fishermen wait all year for March. Prespawn bass feed heavily, and on some lakes you can sight fish for spawning bass. There will even be some bass feeding heavily in a postspawn mode, as well. On Lake Blackshear, you can find spawning fish this month, and it is one of our most beautiful, fishy…
When you think of great crappie fishing in Georgia, a few lakes come to mind right off the bat—West Point, Oconee, Clarks Hill. Those are historically great fisheries that continue to produce full strings year after year. Georgia is lucky to have so many excellent and diverse fisheries scattered all across the state. There is…
The Georgia Bass Chapter Federation (GBCF) youth division held their 2012 Top-6 championship tournament on Lake Blackshear on March 31. Held under the FLW program, the best young tournament anglers from bass clubs in Georgia fished for bragging rights and state-championship honors. Six youth clubs sent teams to the tournament, and their top anglers competed…
Longtime Blackshear crappie angler Rusty Parker said the lake is fishing as well as he’s ever experienced. And this month, he expects crappie to pull up early for the prespawn and spawn. There are a lot of different methods that will catch them this time of year, and Rusty wasn’t heistant about serving up several…
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 |