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Clarks Hill: Level: 8.1 feet below full. Temp: 60 degrees. Clarity: Very clear. Bass: Great. Craig Johnson has been fishing spinnerbaits and crankbaits along shallow grass lines. “The key is to fish the small clumps of grass. Some of them are only like 15 feet by 15 feet. Also it has to have a defined…
Clarks Hill: Level: 8.9 feet below full pool. Temp: low 70s. Clairty: Clear Bass: The bass fishing has fired up recently on Clarks Hill according to fishing guide William Sasser. “The bass are on the main-lake points and schooling,” he said. “Any topwater will catch fish — Gunfish, Spooks, Sammys, Creek Chubs.” You can find…
Clarks Hill: Level: 7.2 feet below full. Temp: 78 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Great. Craig Johnson has been catching 40 fish a day, but it’s taking those 40 to get 13 or 14 pounds with his best five. “There’s a few moving shallow right now, but the bigger fish are still out deep,” said Craig.…
Clarks Hill Lake is the largest reservoir in Georgia. At 71,000 acres, it’s a center of outdoor recreation and is one of the best-known lineside fisheries in the state. And well it should be; Ed Bettross is the Georgia Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) fisheries biologist assigned to Clarks Hill, and he has been working cooperatively…
Clarks Hill: Level: 6.1 feet below full. Temp: 86 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Craig Johnson said there’s some pretty good schooling going on right now, but the fish are small. Craig said the night bite has shut down; it only took nine pounds to win the other evening, and second place only had three…
Level: 4.0 feet low. Temp: 85-89 degrees. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Good. Craig Johnson says, “It’s taking 17 pounds to win a tournament, and at least 15 pounds to get a check. We’re catching 90 percent of our fish from 12 to 3 p.m. suspended in 20-35 feet of water. Throw topwater all day long. The clear…
Craig Johnson is one of the most confident anglers I’ve ever had the pleasure of being in the boat with. “I can put the camera down there and show you 50 fish. You can sit there for three hours and not have a bite and then all of a sudden they turn on and you…
Clarks Hill: Level: 3.3 feet below full. Temp: 83 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Craig Johnson said the best bite is after dark. Look for humps that have brush, rock or hydrilla on them, and throw Spot Removers and big jigs. Craig concentrates from Schriver Creek down to the dam and up to Rosseau Creek…
Targeting gar over carp proved to be the winning strategy at the Georgia Bowfishing Association’s first annual state championship. The 12-hour, nighttime bowfishing tournament was held from 7 p.m. Saturday evening May 20 through 7 a.m. Sunday May 21 at Lake R.B. Russell. Eighteen three-man teams from Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina participated…
Level: 2.0 feet below full. Temp: 69 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Great. Between the Top Six and BASS tournaments, the lower end of Clarks Hill has been hammered with pressure this spring. However, Larry Gilpin said the blowthrough bite is just now firing up, and it’s stronger and later than it was last year. “The…
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