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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.
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Oliver: Level: 0.8 feet below 337. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tournament angler Tyler Morgan reports, “Some big spotted bass will be schooling toward the Goat Rock Dam. Fish a big walking bait, like a Sexy Dawg, to active fish or work it along deeper banks. Also, look for any mayflies and fish a popper or walker, as well as a creature bait, to bushes with flies. Overhanging bushes are not common, so any you find with flies will hold bass. Sloughs off the river are so shallow that bass tend to stay out of them, so stay on the river. Current definitely helps, as will clouds and rain. With good electronics, you can find where stump flats drop from 5 to 10 feet of water. A jig, shaky head or Carolina rig fished across the drop will catch some good fish when current is moving over the drop.” The Lake…
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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.