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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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It was just after 8:00 a.m. and I had just made my fourth cast of the morning. My medium-sized crankbait landed right where I wanted it to, just beyond an underwater spring that had been attracting fish as of late. I gave my reel seven or eight good cranks trying to get my bait down…
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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 |