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Lake Jackson
Lake Jackson is one of the oldest reservoirs in the United States. Jackson has transitioned from a trophy largemouth bass lake to lots more spotted bass making up the bass catch. Crappie fishing is good on Jackson, and the lake is home to some huge catfish. The Lloyd Shoals Dam was built in 1910 by Central Georgia Power Company, and electricity was originally generated for the city of Macon. At 4,750 acres, Lake Jackson is small compared to other Georgia reservoirs.
Lake Jackson Resources
Jackson: Level: 0.9 feet above 528. Temp: 62-66 degrees. Clarity: Heavy stain from mouth of Tussahaw Creek to the dam. Bass: Ronnie Garrison with the Flint River Bass Club reports, “I won with five weighing 9.74 pounds and had big fish with a 2.78-lb. largemouth. We started at 7 a.m., and by 8:30 I had three largemouth and a spot. I caught them all on a 3/8-oz. gold-bladed chartreuse/blue/white skirted spinnerbait. The big one hit by a dock float on a throw-away cast as I went around it and was just keeping my bait wet, but the others hit on seawalls. At 9, I caught a skinny, 13-inch spot on the spinnerbait and then culled it with a bigger spot that hit a shaky-head worm around 10. “I think males were fanning or guarding beds. Twice I felt a thump on the spinnerbait and missed but cast right back and caught…
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My first trip to Lake Jackson was in April of 2000. I was filming tournament pro Eric Perkins and GON editor Daryl Kirby for GON-TV. Right off the bat Eric caught a 4-lb. largemouth on a Bang-O-Lure. The bite never stopped. All day bass hit Flukes, spinnerbaits, worms, jigs, whatever hit the water. It was…
Two men are dead after two different nighttime, head-on boat collisions at Lake Jackson. The first accident occurred Friday night, April 14, at 10:20 p.m., and it involved two bass boats, one of which was competing in a Friday night pot tournament. According to Law Enforcement Col. Terry West, who cited an interview with the…
April is the time of year to be on Georgia’s lakes in search of slab-sized crappie. The fish can be caught using a variety of methods including trolling with minnows, pitching jigs to brush or even fishing bridge pilings. However, if you crappie fish any Georgia reservoir, especially those with lots of docks, shooting jigs…
I just couldn’t believe it. It was early April, the water temperature was in the high 60s and Rick Howard of Warner Robins wanted to troll in 30 feet of water to try and show me a Jackson crappie. I thought, shouldn’t we be in the backs of the pockets looking for a shallow bite?…
Lake Jackson is an excellent choice for a December trip if you want to catch a mixture of largemouths and spotted bass. The populations of both seem to be on an upswing this year, and they are easy to pattern this month. A typical December trip will produce several largemouth up to 5 pounds and…
Lake Jackson Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 14-lbs., 7-ozs. | John Burnett | 03/09/86 |
| Spotted Bass | 6-lbs., 0.03-ozs. | Bill Haines | 06/08/18 |
| Black Crappie | 3-lbs., 8.5-ozs. | Barry Massey | 04/16/91 |
| White Crappie | 1-lb., 2-ozs. | Dylan Peppers | 05/31/05 |
| Yellow Perch | 1-lb., 6-ozs. | Rusty Tate | 02/06/19 |
| Hybrid Bass | 15-lbs., 2-ozs. | Jack Anderson | 04/16/92 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 3-ozs. | Jeff Weege | 04/22/92 |
| Common Carp | 35-lbs., 12-ozs.* | Donald Clark | 1972 |
| Chain Pickerel | 2-lbs., 9.28-ozs. | Hunter Parker | 04/20/21 |
| Flathead Catfish | 64-lbs., 6.08-ozs. | Daniel Perrier | 05/29/23 |
| Channel Catfish | 16-lbs., 10.56-ozs. | Grant Burroughs | 02/13/17 |
| Blue Catfish | 46-lbs., 7-ozs. | Luke Chandler | 11/15/18 |
| Striped Bass | 27-lbs. | Scott Hayes | June 1985 |
| Warmouth | 0.88-lbs. | Hunter Parker | 03/21/21 |