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Fishing
Since 1990, GON has been compiling lake and river records for 36 Georgia lakes and rivers. Over that period the largemouth-bass record at Lake Blackshear remained unfilled. Not anymore. We finally received documentation on a largemouth entry — and it’s a good one. On Tuesday evening, June 5, Clint Brownlee of Tifton was fishing with…
April may be the best month of the year to pull in a limit of Lake Blackshear bass, says fishing expert Sam Moody of Leesburg. Warming temperatures pull the bass out of the deeper ledges and channels, then moves them into the more shallow coves around the cypress trees, and Sam targets them with soft…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 54 degrees. Clarity: The river is stained, the sloughs are clear. Crappie: Slow, but should be breaking loose any day. Rusty Parker said his crappie-fishing friends had only been catching a few, but the size was good, and the fish were full of eggs. Fish were hitting Tripple-Ripple jigs 16-feet…
The one-trick pony returns to Lake Blackshear during late February to the first of April. Now what exactly is a one-trick pony that relates to fishing? As you know, crappie can be caught year round, but during the early spring spawn, the green light comes on and crappie move into the shallows where we can…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50-55 degrees. Clarity: Good fishing color. Bass: Clint Brownlee, who with Gerry Gray won the Blackshear Buddies Classic in December, said the fishing has been slow. Try about halfway back in the creeks and sloughs, starting with a crankbait as a fish-finder lure. When Clint catches a fish on the…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: The main run of the lake is slightly stained, back in the sloughs the water is clear. Bass: Slow, according to Ernie Broughton who held his season-ending Classic on the lake December 17. “A lot of the guys packed up and left the lake by noon or…
Lake Blackshear has a split personality — too far north to be a true south Georgia lake with all shallow water and swampy conditions, but far enough south that cypress trees line the banks and lily pads and hyacinths fill the shallows. Even in the hottest weather you can catch bass in all kinds of…
When anglers in the state of Georgia think of spring crappie fishing, many thoughts probably enter their minds. Pear tree, plumb and dogwood blooms. Warming weather and the coming of spring. Certain lakes also come to mind. Eufaula, Oconee and West Point are probably at the top of every crappie angler’s list. These lakes are…
Lake Blackshear can be a very fickle reservoir. Just ask anyone who fishes it, and they are certain to agree. Many an angler has left this lake shaking his head. Part of the problem is what you see once you get there. Boat docks, cypress trees, stumps and grassbeds are virtually everywhere you look. It…
It was just after 8:00 a.m. and I had just made my fourth cast of the morning. My medium-sized crankbait landed right where I wanted it to, just beyond an underwater spring that had been attracting fish as of late. I gave my reel seven or eight good cranks trying to get my bait down…
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