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Lake Oconee
Lake Oconee is an excellent fishing lake located in central Georgia on the Oconee River near Greensboro, the real Buckhead and Eatonton. Oconee is known for very good bass fishing, great crappie fishing for huge slabs, and very good fishing for linesides and catfish. The lake was created in 1979 when Georgia Power completed the construction of the Wallace Dam on the Oconee River. Lake Oconee runs through Georgia's Morgan, Greene, and Putnam counties and is separated from its sister lake, Sinclair, by Wallace Dam. Lake Oconee is home to a number of golf communities, including Reynolds Plantation, Cuscawilla, and Harbor Club.
Lake Oconee Resources
Oconee: Level: 0.2 feet below 435. Temp: 86 degrees. Clarity: Stained to the Highway 44 bridge. Bass: With summer winding down, September will begin a transition month, but not until cooler weather settles in a little more consistently. Don’t let that week of nice weather in mid August fool you. We’re not quite done with the brutal muggy Georgia heat just yet. Early mornings and on cloudy days, throw Trick Worms or Senkos anywhere you find grass. Proximity to deep water will still be key, especially as daytime temperatures remain in the upper 80s and 90s. The cooler the weather, the less that adjacent deep water will be a factor. There will always be a dock bite on Oconee, but expect those fish to begin filtering back into the creeks and pockets as baitfish begin their migrations shallow. However, don’t expect to see that push shallow until the end of…
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James Buice Jr., of Decatur, and a friend from South Carolina hadn’t caught a fish yet on Oct. 27, 1990 at Lake Oconee, when James got the strike of a lifetime. The two had just come in from deer hunting and were fishing the rip-rap along the Highway 278 bridge up the Oconee River when…
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Lake Oconee Record Fish
Largemouth Bass | 12-lbs., 14-ozs. | Bill Brantley | 05/14/12 |
Hybrid Bass | 14-lbs., 4-ozs. | Jan Allen Ward | 04/03/91 |
Striped Bass | 29-lbs., 14.9-ozs. | Fred Worthy | 05/10/96 |
Black Crappie | 3-lbs., 12-ozs. | Edward Rhodes | 02/10/97 |
Channel Catfish | 34-lbs., 8-ozs. | Jonathan Clifton | 05/31/98 |
Blue Catfish | 70-lbs., 2-ozs. | Koob Moua | 03/22/23 |
Flathead Catfish | 62-lbs., 10.4-ozs. | Rob Allgood | 03/11/23 |
White Bass | 3-lbs., 6-ozs. | Tony Couch | 04/02/93 |
Longnose Gar | 20-lbs., 13-ozs. | Dustin Turk | 10/05/19 |
Chain Pickerel | 1-lb., 2-ozs. | Terry Brice | 03/05/17 |
Spotted Bass | 5-lbs., 3.2-ozs. | Austin Skinner | 03/19/22 |
Shellcracker | 1-lb., 14.56-ozs. | Randy Smith | 04/23/22 |
Yellow Perch | 11-ozs. | John Moore | 02/16/23 |