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Covington’s Lake Varner has anglers talking about something other than the giant bass it produces. The word on lips these days is “hydrilla” and the effects it’s having on fishing, wildlife and the lake’s ability to efficiently produce drinking water. “Hydrilla has matted probably 70 percent of the lake’s surface. You can go about 50…
Paradise PFA: Levels: Most lakes are 3 to 6 inches below full pool. Temp: 86-88 degrees. Clarity: Lakes lightly stained; 24-inch visibility on Lake Patrick. Bass: Fair, according to area manager Charles West. “Fishing for bass has been very tough. Try topwater baits during early morning periods,” Charles said. “Switch to crankbaits by mid morning,…
Dodge County Public Fishing Area stole the headlines around the Southeast during the early 2000s by producing some huge bass from its relatively small 104 acres. The original year class of bass was reaching its maximum size during those few years. Since that time, intensive management of the lake through fertilizing and liming has continued…
One-thousand one-hundred thirteen bass 10 pounds or better and counting. No, that was not a typographical error… 1,113 bass 10 pounds or heavier. That is not the number of double-digit bass caught in all of Georgia over the last decade. It is the number caught by one individual, Pat Cullen, of Valdosta, over the last…
When Jackson County’s Bear Creek Reservoir was built in 2001 and stocked with F1 bass and plenty of forage, the intent was to open and manage the 505-acre lake as a trophy-bass fishery. Nearly a decade later in September 2009, the lake’s new boat ramp finally opened for business, and aggressive bass are open for…