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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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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…
For many successful anglers, the difference in their ability to catch fish depends on the little things. For crappie fisherman Jerry Pheil, of Cordele, the little things that help fill his livewell with crappie are minnows. Jerry has lived on the lake since 1970. He has been fishing Blackshear for whatever swims in the lake…
Scott side-armed his fishing rod, firing a shad-colored Fat Free Shad crankbait back under the low, concrete Gum Creek bridge on Lake Blackshear. His retrieve was slow, moving the bait only fast enough to feel the big lip on the crankbait ticking the rip-rap rocks in four or five feet of water. “There’s a…
Since 1990, GON has been compiling lake and river records for 36 Georgia lakes and rivers. Over that period the largemouth-bass record at Lake Blackshear remained unfilled. Not anymore. We finally received documentation on a largemouth entry — and it’s a good one. On Tuesday evening, June 5, Clint Brownlee of Tifton was fishing with…
April may be the best month of the year to pull in a limit of Lake Blackshear bass, says fishing expert Sam Moody of Leesburg. Warming temperatures pull the bass out of the deeper ledges and channels, then moves them into the more shallow coves around the cypress trees, and Sam targets them with soft…
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 |