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Ocmulgee PFA: Level: About 5 feet below full. Temp.: 51-53 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: Good and getting better, said Mike Neal, who fished Ocmulgee PFA with his tournament partner on Feb. 24. “We found that the fish were holding on structure around points in around 4 to 8 feet of water,” Mike said. “Using…
On Christmas day evening, Tyler Dodson, 15, of Carrollton was fishing for catfish in a 23-acre lake behind his family’s house. For bait he had mixed chili with jalapenos, sloppy-joe mix, red kidney beans and Primo catfish bait. He poured the concoction into a piece of pantyhose laced with a 5/0 hook. The bait was…
“Look at that,” said Joffer, motioning toward the screen of his graph. “That’s what I like to see — it looks like spaghetti.” His Lowrance color graph showed a jumble of string-like arches just off the bottom in 38 feet of water. “There,” he said, “That’s my spoon,” he said, indicating a descending blip on…
Paradise PFA: Level: Near full pool in some of the smaller lakes. Lakes Patrick and Bobben are 2 feet below full pool. Temp: 56-58 degrees. Clarity: Lakes lightly stained; 36-inch visibility on Lake Patrick. Bass: Fair. Anglers reported some bass being caught in lakes Patrick, Bobben and Russell. Spinnerbaits and Rat-L-Traps fished in deeper water…
Marben PFA: Level: Some ponds, including Shepherd and Whitetail, are full. Bennett is the lowest, and its boat ramp remains closed. Other ponds are 1 to 2 feet low. Clarity: Clear. Temp: 52 degrees. Bass: Slow. Try deep water adjacent to submerged creek channels in Fox and Bennett lakes with plastic worms and jigs. Crappie:…