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Fishing
February is my favorite month for big bass. That is a bold statement, but it has proven true over and over during the last three decades. Bass have been growing eggs since fall, cold weather pulled them off into a winter pattern, but their instinct tells them that any day it will be time to…
The Altamaha River is at record lows, with rarely seen sandbars and rockpiles popping up along its length. There are two primary ways to navigate the river during such low water. The first is to poke around cautiously in small, preferably aluminum, boats and motors, and fish where you can. That is how I typically…
I have lived in Milledgeville all my life and since I was old enough to know what a fish was, I have had a love for the river. I spent many days fishing from the bank of the Oconee River as a youngster. While I was in high school, I saved my pennies and bought…
The state-record for flathead catfish has been broken. On Thursday, June 22 Carl Sawyer of Screven pulled a monster catfish out of the Altamaha that weighed 83 pounds — smashing the previous record of 67-lbs., 8-ozs. Carl and fishing buddy Ben Poppell of Jesup were camping on a sandbar and catfishing. Thursday evening they were…
This is not supposed to be happening. There is a steady wind blowing 15 to 20 miles per hour out of the northeast; the temperature at 8:30 a.m. is in the very low 60s, clouds low, dark and threatening; the Altamaha River reading at Jesup is a little over two feet lower than what we…
Two summers ago, Johnny Gordon of Ludowici and his partner, Tommy Bacon, made local papers and the pages of GON with a photo of a 70-lb. flathead catfish that they caught in the Altamaha River near Jesup on a limb line and a live bream. At the time it was one of the heaviest flatheads…
The “Home of the Monster Cats” has done it again… the Altamaha River in the Jesup area has yielded another monster catfish. Already home to the heaviest flathead catfish ever caught on rod and reel in Georgia, a 67 1/2-pounder wrestled to the side of a boat by Gene Middleton in 2000, the Altamaha last…
When the Okefenokee Bass Anglers in Waycross was a fledgling club in the late 1990s, there were only two anglers who were proficient with a spinning outfit. Some of the guys did not even own a spinning reel. During the summer months, when the majority of the bass were in the main run of the…
Speckled perch…crappie…white perch…specks. However you choose to refer to them, crappie are fun to catch and make delectable table fare. And while often overlooked, the tidal portion of the Altamaha River near Brunswick is a great place to pursue crappie. During the mid-1990s while fishing the Altamaha River out of Altamaha Regional Park, I frequently…
“Striper Highway” could be the name of either of the two, main highways in coastal Georgia, I-95 and U.S. Highway 17. What lies below the asphalt is what many coastal anglers seek — striped bass. At times there are more stripers stacked up behind the bridge pilings than motorists driving above. Some terrific striped-bass fishing…
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