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Lake Burton
Lake Burton is a 2,775-acre Georgia Power Co. reservoir located in the northeast corner of Georgia in Rabun County. Burton offers very good bass fishing, and it also has a unique fishery for reservoir trout. The lake is lined with exclusive homes. It is the first lake in a six-lake series of small reservoirs on the Tallulah River. The chain begins with Lake Burton as the northernmost lake followed by Seed, Rabun, Tallulah Falls, Tugalo and Yonah.
Lake Burton Resources
Burton: Level: 1.8 feet below 1866.66. Temp: 53 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The bass bite has been great the last few days. We have caught fish in almost every pocket/cove around the lake. A lot of the fish are spawning right now. We have had good success with a weighted Zoom Fluke (pearl or silver). Be sure to use lighter line or fluorocarbon when fishing shallow. Using 8-lb. test makes a difference. A Ned rig has also been working well with a green-pumpkin finesse worm. Fish any structure around these coves, and the fish will be there. This bite should continue for the next couple of weeks and continue to get better.” Lake Burton Page: Archived Articles, Fishing Reports & Lake Records Trout: Guide Wes Carlton reports, “We have been catching some nice brown trout the last couple of weeks. Trolling Rapala DT20s (big shad color)…
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In February 2005, Lake Burton produced a new Georgia state-record spotted bass, a fat 8-lb., 2-oz. fish. Burton is full of big spots, and a surprising number of largemouths, and the bass are on a pattern this month that can produce some outstanding catches. Burton is a small Georgia Power Co. reservoir just off Highway 76 between Clayton…
Fisherman Paul Turman lives in Hoschton. He is a transplant to Georgia from Ohio, where he grew up catching walleye and yellow perch from Lake Erie. When he moved to Georgia, he went to school on the perch (and walleye) in Georgia’s mountain lakes, and he has been catching them for 30 years. You may…
The heaviest spotted bass ever caught, weighed on certified scales and verified by state biologists is a Lake Burton fatty that pulled the scales to 8-lbs., 2-ozs. Wayne Holland, of Blairsville, caught the Burton spot on Feb. 23, 2005. The official Georgia state record, and Lake Burton record, measured 21 1/2 inches long, but it’s…
A 2.70-lb. black crappie set a new lake record for Lake Burton, but it only placed third in Week 1 of the 1994 GON Fishing Contest with a score of 83.1 percent. Tom Cook caught the slab on March 7. The GON Fishing Contest had weekly winners, with each species of fish having a benchmark…
A huge mountain largemouth bass caught in 1993 set the lake record for Lake Burton. Carl Lovell Jr., of Clarkesville, caught the bass on May 28, 1993 while fishing a plastic worm. Carl’s big largemouth weighed 14 pounds even.
Burton Lake Records
| Largemouth Bass | 14-lbs. | Carl Lovell Jr. | 05/28/93 |
| Spotted Bass | 8-lbs., 2-ozs. | Wayne Holland | 02/23/05 |
| Smallmouth Bass | 4-lbs. | Jeff Blair | 10/15/08 |
| Striped Bass | 47-lbs. | Robin Vaughn | 12/02/88 |
| Hybrid Bass | 12-lbs., 12-ozs. | Richard Sokolowski | 05/03/15 |
| White Bass | 3-lbs., 2-ozs. | Tod Hickman | 05/02/12 |
| Walleye | 11-lbs. | Steven Kenny | 04/13/63 |
| Yellow Perch | 2-lbs., 9-ozs.* | Emerson Mulhall | 02/18/24 |
| Black Crappie | 2-lbs., 11-ozs. | Tom Cook | 03/07/94 |
| Brown Trout | 12-lbs., 4-ozs. | Tom Fox | 05/30/22 |
| Rainbow Trout | 6-lbs. | Lila Kilby | 10/21/22 |
| Shellcracker | 3-lbs. | Greg Taylor | 05/21/75 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb., 15,5-ozs. | J. Gary Simmons | 07/03/76 |
| Channel Catfish | 18-lbs., 12-ozs. | Bland Burroughs | 10/14/94 |
| White Catfish | 4-lbs., 4-ozs. | Bill Papineau | 10/02/93 |
| Chain Pickerel | 2-lbs., 12-ozs. | Shelby Cathey | 7/17/24 |
