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Fishing Reports
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 55 degrees. Clarity: Varied between clear and muddy depending on rain. Various Species: Brad McDaniel at Flint River Outdoors reports, “All varieties—largemouth, striped and hybrid—are being found with the shad. Find the shad and you find them. So, obviously a bait that closely imitates the shad is the way to go.…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 69 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Various Species: Brad McDaniel at Flint River Outdoors reports, “Crappie are being caught many ways, but the best deal is about 20-foot-deep brushpiles with minnows. Catfish—channels and flatheads—are being caught in good numbers. For the smaller, eating-size channels, worms are your best bet. For big flatheads, goldfish…
There is not a more beautiful lake in Georgia than Blackshear, and right now it is full of quality largemouth feeding around grassbeds, lily pads and cypress trees. Catching shallow bass in July is fun, and Blackshear is a lake where anglers can do it. Lake Blackshear is an 8,500-acre Crisp County Power reservoir on…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Brad McDaniel at Flint River Outdoors reports, “Bass are postspawn and relating to cover, like grass and lily pads, and structure, like wood, docks, the railroad trestle, bridges and rip-rap. The ticket for bass on Blackshear is something brand new or something really old. Think outside the box, and try…
Blackshear: Level: 0.1 feet low. Temp: 75 degrees. Clarity: Muddy. Bass: Brad McDaniel with Flint River Outdoors reports, “Bass are mostly postspawn and are mostly being caught on dark plastics, ChatterBaits, swimbaits and spinnerbaits.” Bream: Brad McDaniel with Flint River Outdoors reports, “This bite was very late coming on this spring but is wide open now. They are being caught shallow around the…
The crappie weren’t exactly tearing it up at Lake Blackshear Saturday, April 13, 2019, but one bite saved the day for Casey Tanner, of Douglas. Casey caught a black crappie certified at 3-lbs., 9.28-ozs., which sets a new Blackshear lake record by less than an ounce. “I got there that morning and caught a few…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: 60 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain. Bass: Brad McDaniel with Flint River Outdoors reports, “Bass are bedding despite the cold weather. Go-to baits are something really new or something really old. Bass at Lake Blackshear get a lot of pressure, so try and think outside the box and show them something different.” Crappie: Brad McDaniel with Flint River…
We competed at Lake Blackshear on March 9. Blackshear was muddy, with water temperatures in high 50s and climbing into the low 60s as the day went on. During practice we fished north of the train bridge, and my partner fished south of the bridge. The main pattern we found included fishing docks with finesse…
An alligator that measured 13-feet, 4-inches long recently had to be put down, according to Brent Howze, a WRD biologist in southwest Georgia. The large gator that could easily have been 50 years old was found by a farmer in an irrigation ditch in the Parker Slough area in the upper western portions of Lake Blackshear…
Blackshear: Level: 0.2 feet low. Temp: 55-60 degrees. Clarity: Dependent on any recent rain but was good as of Feb. 20. Crappie: Brad McDaniel at Flint River Outdoors reports, “The crappie bite is just about to bust loose, but it will depend on the weather. Right now, they are being caught in about 15 feet of water with jigs and…
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