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Clarks Hill: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 50s. Clarity: Clear with a slight stain in the creeks. Bass: Tournament angler Jon Hair reports, “Fish are in the ditches that have good grass. Watch for the schooling activity, and cast to them with a Super Fluke or a Fish Head Spin. The bigger…
Carters: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 50-53 degrees. Clarity: 6 feet. Bass: Guide Eric Crowley reports, “The spotted bass are held up on all kinds of deep cover from 15 to 40 feet. The areas around the boat ramps have been a great place to find fish. Doll Mtn, Woodring and the area…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 52-55 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Crappie: Rusty Parker reports, “It seems like the crappie are picking up a bit here on Lake Blackshear lately. Got a report from a friend who went this past Monday, and he and his partner caught their limit in no time at all. They were pushing…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.4 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, according to tournament angler Dennis Hudson. “There’s been some pretty good fish caught here lately. The fish are scattered, and people are catching them a lot of different ways,” Dennis said. “A lot have been caught around the docks. Some…
Allatoona: Level: 10.6 feet below full pool. Temperature: 52 degrees. Clarity: Stained from Little River to the dam. And visibility south of the dam is about 3 feet. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “January is normally a really cold and slow month, but we have had a mild winter so far with water temps…
An Georgia-based youth hunting and fishing ministry, 30-30 Ministries, is now collecting items that will be auctioned off by the Ward Auction Company (Georgia Auctioneer License # AU-C002893) in Cordele, Ga. on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. “We are thrilled to be working with the great sportsmen in south Georgia who approached us with the idea…
Corey stopped putting corn in the feeders two weeks before archery season opened. They still got several more trail-cam photos of Jupiter II because the deer were still hanging around the feeders at night. All were taken while the buck was still in velvet, and all came from the same camera that had taken the…
On an early September morning in 1962, Earl Williams and Billy Waits slipped Williams’ 12-foot aluminum boat into the Ocmulgee River at Macon and headed upriver to do some squirrel hunting. As the men neared Georgia Power’s Plant Arkwright, located along the western edge of the river, Earl turned the boat sharply to the right…
Editor’s Note: Georgia Power Company (GPC) contacted GON and wanted to address two issues they are regularly dealing with in regards to their properties and powerlines. Myth No. 1: Powerline rights-of-way are open to the public. Nothing could be further from the truth. In most cases, GPC has an easement with the landowner that only…
Since 2003, the Webster County Sheriff’s Office has hosted an annual youth deer hunt for a few boys from the Georgia Sheriffs’ Youth Home. The year’s event, which included hunting, fishing and skeet shooting, took place the second weekend of November. “Mr. and Mrs. Baker Alston, of Weston, have graciously let us use their beautiful…
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