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Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 69-74 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, according to tournament angler Clint Brownlee. The postspawn pattern is picking up on the lake. Clint recommends a handful of lures that will catch bass in May. The fish will stage on grassbeds and trees as they gradually migrate back out to main-lake points…
More than most Georgia lakes, Lake Blackshear is what a bass fisherman would call a “target-rich” environment. Everywhere there are grassbeds, cypress trees, logs, stumps and docks that all look like they hold bass. Fishing cypress trees is the basic pattern at Blackshear in the spring, according to Clint Brownlee of Tifton, a tournament angler…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Ernie Broughton, who runs the Blackshear Buddies tournament trail on the lake, broke the lake record for a five-fish tournament catch in his tournament March 1. Ernie had five fish that weighed 23.14 pounds including an 8.2-lb. and a 7.14-lb. bass. He caught all the…
If you want to catch big crappie at Lake Blackshear, Jack Ivey of Leesburg says, “Go up the river.” The upper end of Blackshear, up to the Hwy 27 bridge, is one of Jack’s favorite places to fish for the solitude, the moving water and the big crappie. Jack, who has been fishing the lake…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fishing is starting to pick up at Blackshear, said Clint Brownlee. Clint and partner Gerry Gray won the last Earnie’s tournament on Feb. 16 with 16.12 pounds, and they also had big fish that weighed 7.12. “The fish are starting to move up,” said Clint.…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. “The fishing had been pretty good until the cold weather,” said Ernie Broughton, who runs the Blackshear Buddies tournaments. Ernie won a recent tournament with four bass that weighed 14-lbs., 5-ozs. The fish all came on a Carolina rig with a black worm with…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 58 to 60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Jimmy Sharp said bass were being caught on crankbaits, Texas-rigged worms and a new bait called a Flappy Daddy made by Gambler. The bait is a small crawfish with a long body and wide crawfish arms. Jimmy has been fishing the Flappy Daddy…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 60s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: “Up and and down and spotty,” said Ernie Broughton, who runs the Blackshear Buddies tournament trail. Ernie said the fish hadn’t schooled up yet and were being caught a variety of ways ranging from spinnerbaits, crankbaits and worms to Pop Rs. Grass seems to be…
If you could design a lake for bass fishing, you’d probably come up with something similar to Lake Blackshear. Shallow flats covered with wood, docks with posts and brushpiles under them, and creeks filled with lily pads and cypress trees are everywhere. All over the lake, bassy-looking cover makes you want to make casts to…
Blackshear: Level: .05 below full pool. Temp: 75 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Boat docks, cypress trees and grass lines are the primary targets on Blackshear. The topwater bite is improving, and a buzzbait is a good bet early around grass or pads. As the water temperature drops, spinnerbaits and flukes around cypress trees and dock…
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