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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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Lake Blackshear Fishing Articles
Living on Lake Blackshear, Mike Bullington used to be involved in the bass-tournament scene, but an unusual pattern he discovered three years ago while fishing for deep bass has turned him into a catfish angler for a couple months each year. That pattern landed him the new lake-record appaloosa (flathead) catfish on Nov. 2, 2008,…
Shane Wilson of Cataula had never been drawn for a gator tag before. Neither had two of the other three hunters who launched two boats from the Camper’s Haven boat ramp on Lake Blackshear Sept. 12. It’s a good thing at least one of the four, Randy Pounds of Butler, had some experience gator hunting,…
More than most Georgia lakes, Lake Blackshear is what a bass fisherman would call a “target-rich” environment. Everywhere there are grassbeds, cypress trees, logs, stumps and docks that all look like they hold bass. Fishing cypress trees is the basic pattern at Blackshear in the spring, according to Clint Brownlee of Tifton, a tournament angler…
If you want to catch big crappie at Lake Blackshear, Jack Ivey of Leesburg says, “Go up the river.” The upper end of Blackshear, up to the Hwy 27 bridge, is one of Jack’s favorite places to fish for the solitude, the moving water and the big crappie. Jack, who has been fishing the lake…
If you could design a lake for bass fishing, you’d probably come up with something similar to Lake Blackshear. Shallow flats covered with wood, docks with posts and brushpiles under them, and creeks filled with lily pads and cypress trees are everywhere. All over the lake, bassy-looking cover makes you want to make casts to…
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 |