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Lake Oliver
Lake Oliver is a small 2,150-acre Georgia Power Co. reservoir on the Chattachoochee River within the city limits of Columbus. Public access to the lake is limited to one marina owned by the City of Columbus and one boat ramp near Goat Rock Dam on the Alabama side. Homes and docks line the shoreline on both the Georgia and Alabama sides. Green Island Hills, an upscale development, is located on the lake at the mouth of Standing Boy Creek.
Lake Oliver Resources
Oliver: Level: 1 foot below 337. Temp: Upper 60s to low 70s. Clarity: Very clear. Bass: Tournament angler Tyler Morgan said to refer to the March Map-of-the-Month article and go halfway back in the mentioned sloughs. “Cast to all stumps with a wacky-rigged Senko for bass bedding by them. Look all the way in the back for wakes and bulging water showing movement of bedding bass in extremely shallow water. Make very long casts with your wacky rig to them,” Tyler said.
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March is a great month to catch big largemouth and spotted bass up shallow in a prespawn mode. And one of the best bass bites occurs at a lake on the Chattahoochee River you might not even know about. Lake Oliver is a small Georgia Power lake north of Columbus. You can see the Oliver…
The warming trend that hit Georgia last week had fishermen across the state itching to be on the water, whether pulling jigs for slab crappie or bass anglers hoping to roll a big one that moved up shallow. It sure paid off for GON content contributor Tyler Morgan, of Phenix City, who had a big…
Brad Carroll, of Columbus, caught a 7-lb., 7-oz. monster shoal bass on March 6 that set a record on Lake Oliver, which is a small Georgia Power Co. impoundment on the Chattahoochee River near Columbus.