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Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 81 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Ernie Broughton, who runs the Blackshear Buddies tournaments, is looking forward to better fishing as the water cools. Schooling should improve as the water temperature drops, and Ernie said he has seen some schooling already. “When they come up, one of my favorites is a…
Blackshear: Level: 0.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 90 degrees. Clarity: Clear.Bass: Slow. Brian Davis said a night tournament August 24 was won with a five-fish limit that weighed just under 8 pounds. “I think what happens this time of year is that the fish pull off the banks out to the stumps along the…
Level: Full pool. Temp: Upper 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The water is hot, and the fish are lethargic. Scott Holland says your best bet is to head up the river and look for current and shade. “If you get up around Campers Haven, there are a lot of backwater sloughs that are like fishing…
Blackshear: Level: At full pool. Temp: Upper 70s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Clint Brownlee said your best bet is to start on grassbeds on the main lake early in the morning. Fishing back in the coves and pockets hasn’t been as good as out on the main lake, he said. This time of year, Clint would…
For many successful anglers, the difference in their ability to catch fish depends on the little things. For crappie fisherman Jerry Pheil, of Cordele, the little things that help fill his livewell with crappie are minnows. Jerry has lived on the lake since 1970. He has been fishing Blackshear for whatever swims in the lake…
Blackshear: Level: .2 feet below full pool. Temp: mid 60s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: “They have been biting good,” said Clint Brownlee. “If we could just get some stable weather, they’d really bite good.” Clint said to throw a spinnerbait around grassbeds and cypress trees early in the day, then if you want to slow down,…
Blackshear: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 60s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Excellent. The bass are dead on the bed and on nearly every shallow tree, said Scott Holland. “You can’t go wrong fishing the trees,” he said. “They are wearing them out fishing shallow trees — trees with less than a foot of…
Scott side-armed his fishing rod, firing a shad-colored Fat Free Shad crankbait back under the low, concrete Gum Creek bridge on Lake Blackshear. His retrieve was slow, moving the bait only fast enough to feel the big lip on the crankbait ticking the rip-rap rocks in four or five feet of water. “There’s a…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. Cold weather in February kept most of the fish in deeper water, but as the prespawn progresses the bass will be moving up onto the first, deeper cypress trees and under docks in the creeks and along the main lake. Scott Holland says a…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The Saturday, January 27 Blackshear Buddies tournament was won by Bob Hudson and Wayne Dunman who went up the river and returned with four bass that weighed 16 pounds. Second place dropped to six pounds; third place weighed in three pounds. “The lake is…
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