Fishing Reports

Blackshear: Level: 3.2 feet below full pool. Temp: Lower 60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The Crisp County Power Co. began refilling the lake on December 18 after a drawdown to allow for dock repair. The timeframe to bring the lake up depends on rainfall, but the backing water which will help scatter the baitfish is…

Blackshear: Level: 3.4 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Clint Brownlee and Jerry Gray won the Blackshear Buddies tournament November 18 with three fish that weighed 14-lbs., 14-oz. The winning catch was anchored with an 8-pounder. The report was that two of the fish hit small crankbaits fished around…

Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 70s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Clint Brownlee and Jerry Gray won the Blackshear Buddies tournament on Saturday, October 21 with a sack that weighed 16.3 pounds. Second place weighed in 16.1 pounds, so the bite has improved. Clint said they fished up the river and culled from a dozen keepers.…

Blackshear: Level: 0.1 of a foot below full pool. Temp: Mid 80 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: “Still pretty slow in the main lake,” said Clint Brownlee. Clint and fishing partner Jerry Gray have been fishing way up the lake in the river and doing well on shoal bass and largemouths in cooler, flowing water. They…

Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Poor, according to Ernie Broughton, who runs the Blackshear Buddies tournament. “Eight pounds won the last tournament, and 2.14 pounds was the lunker,” he said. “The winning string was shoal bass caught way up the river.” According to Ernie, there are usually shallow fish around…

Level: 0.3 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 90s degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tough. Clint Brownlee and Jerry Gray won the most recent Blackshear Buddies tournament (July 15) by running up the river. “I have a friend who has a tunnel-hull boat, and we were able to go way up the river,” said Clint. “The…

Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 82 degrees. Clarity: The sloughs are clear, the main lake was stained by heavy rain June 25. Bass: Slow. The most recent Blackshear Buddies tournament was won with more than 16 pounds anchored by a 7 1/2-pounder. Most of the anglers, however, were weighing in one or two bass. “The…

Level: Full pool. Temp: 66 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. Ernie Broughton had 41 boats for his Saturday, May 20 tournament and about half zeroed. It took 13 pounds to win, and big fish was 5.3 pounds. “It was terrible,” said Ernie, who was among he zeros. “We tried everything — spinnerbaits, Rat-L-Traps, buzzbaits, worms,…

Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 75 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: On, then off. The Blackshear Buddies tournament April 8 was won with a 21-lb. sack caught by Homer Roach and Norman Bass. The fish were reportedly caught on buzzbaits worked over grassbeds. The night’s catch included a 11-lb., 7.84-oz. largemouth caught by Scott Holland that…

Blackshear: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 58 degrees. Clarity: Clear Bass: Fair. The fish are beginning to move up out of the channels onto the spawning flats. Look for bass to hold around the base of big cypress trees and around deeper docks. Soft plastics, like a Senko or fluke, or a Texas-rigged…