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Ocmulgee River
The Ocmulgee River flows from the Lake Jackson dam, creating a tailwater fishery that includes shoal bass. The flow meanders through the city of Macon and ultimately joins the Oconee River 241 miles downstream from Jackson, where the two rivers form the Altamaha River near Lumber City. The lower stretch of the Ocmulgee is known for big catfish and good bass fishing.
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Josh McDonald, of Americus, caught a hybrid bass on April 4 that weighed 7-lbs., 11.84-ozs. that sets a benchmark for a brand-new river record on GON’s Georgia Lake and River Records list. He was spending the day with his older brother Jason and his twin brother Justin. “We are all baseball coaches, so we never…
Is fall the best time to hunt, or is it the best time to fish? Actually, October is a great time to be in the Georgia outdoors, whether you’re slinging arrows, letting lead fly, or a casting a fishing line. But why choose? I try to do it all! Lately, I’ve been wanting to get…
Flashback. The mid 90s in Jeff Davis County, Ocmulgee River. A gangly 10-year-old kid is sitting at the front of an old yellow fiberglass boat, busily setting bush hooks. In the back, Uncle Buddy is maneuvering the Johnson 25 among the mazes of fallen tree tops and logjams, holding the boat in the swift current…
On Saturday Oct. 7,, 2017, 39 kayak anglers descended on middle Georgia for the final competition of their respective tournament-trail seasons. For these anglers, it had been a long, tough campaign, their battles being waged on lakes and rivers across the state with one goal in mind—win the 2017 Georgia Kayak Bass Fishing State Championship.…
Fall fishing can be fun and productive, but this year the climate has been throwing us some curves with unusually dry and warm weather. Much of Georgia has been in a serious drought, and the middle Georgia area is 13 inches down from normal rainfall. We probably won’t make up that rainfall anytime soon. In fact,…
Ocmulgee River Fishing Reports
The bites have mostly been good this week. The Altamaha system bass bite has been great. Saltwater has provided a good bite when you could get out. Several days this week it was howling! At least two river records were set this week. Check out the write-ups in the Altamaha and Withlacoochee sections. Altamaha/Ocmulgee River:…
The fish are starting to move out of their summer patterns and move around more. It can be good and bad. It’s good because they feed better than in their mid-summer mode, but it’s sometimes hard to find them in the fall. Altamaha/Ocmulgee River:– My prediction in last week’s report about the Ocmulgee was correct.…
The bites have been good all over the place. With the forecasted rains this week, it’s going to be interesting figuring out what basins got the rain and are rising and which ones did not. Good luck! Morning trips are the ticket now with the heat and afternoon thunderstorms a possibility. Altamaha/Ocmulgee River: Jamie Hodge…
It’s going to be an awesome week as the various rivers drop into a range where the bite fires off. Choose the right spot and it will be lights out —miss it and you’ll make a bunch of fruitless casts. Good luck! Altamaha/Ocmulgee River: Brentz McGhin fished the lower river backwaters on Friday and caught…
It’s been a good week of fishing. This is one of my favorite times of the year—when the panfish start moving to the shallows to spawn, bass are feeding with reckless abandon until the summer heat sets in, saltwater fish are chewing, and the big silver kings are along our beaches. Good times on the…
Ocmulgee River Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 22-lbs., 4-ozs.** | George Perry | 06/02/32 |
| Shoal Bass | 7-lbs., 8.8-ozs. | Charles Mitchell | 05/17/06 |
| Spotted Bass | 5-lbs., 12-ozs. | C.J. Rice | 03/09/14 |
| Channel Catfish | 33-lbs., 8-ozs. | Travis Wilson | 05/12/08 |
| Flathead Catfish | 59-lbs., 2-ozs. | Hiram Baughcum | 07/02/02 |
| Green Sunfish | 1-lbs., 8-ozs. | Rodney Robertson | 07/19/08 |
| Shellcracker | 3-lbs., 4-ozs. | Terry Stone | 06/16/07 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb., 6-ozs. | Stanley Wiggins | 06/26/19 |
| Hybrid Bass | 7-lbs., 11.84-ozs. | Josh McDonald | 04/04/20 |
| Redbreast | 12.8-ozs. | A.J. Lewis | 06/06/20 |