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Blue Ridge: Level: 1.1 feet below full pool. Temp: High 70s and warming. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Tough. Nathan Stuart said Blue Ridge has been tough. If you can’t catch them schooling in the mornings and evenings, catching a good string of fish can be tough, he said. Early and late, look for fish breaking on…
Good, consistent smallmouth bass action is one of Lake Blue Ridge’s claims to fame, and, despite the introduction of spotted bass to the lake in the early 1990s, the smallies have held on well. Luckily for bass fishermen, this month should provide some of the hottest topwater action of the year during the dawn…
Blue Ridge: Level: 0.2 feet above full pool. Temp: 68 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. The morning topwater bite is good for smallmouths and spots right now, said guide Nathan Lewis. “This is the best lake I’ve ever fished for breaking fish,” he said. “If they’re breaking, they’ll hit whatever you throw at them.” Look…
Blue Ridge: Level: 2.8 feet below full pool. Temp: High 60s. Clarity: Clear. Largemouth: Fair. It’s late, but there are still fish on the bed, said Nathan Stuart. You can catch them in the backs of the pockets sight fishing with something like a green-pumpkin jig. There are also some postspawn fish hanging out shallow…
Blue Ridge: Level: 8.3 feet below full pool. Temp: Low to mid 50s. Clarity: Clear on main lake; slight stain up the creeks and up the river. Bass: Good. Nathan Lewis said the spotted bass are biting pretty well in the 15-foot range on main-lake rocky points. A calm day and a drop shot are…
Blue Ridge: Level: 14.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 46-49 degrees. Clarity: Clear on main lake; slight stain up the creeks and up the river. Bass: It’s good and getting better, said guide Nathan Lewis. The smallmouths and spots are in between stages right right now, and you can catch them on the banks as…
Blue Ridge: Level: 18.33 feet below full pool. Temp: Frozen and 35 degrees up the river. 45 degrees on the main lake. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Heath Pack reports he’s catching very good numbers of spots and smallies with a few largemouths mixed in fishing 20- to 30-foot drops off the ends of the lake’s…
Blue Ridge: Level: 13.9 feet below full pool. Temp: High 40s. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Fair. John Hembry reported that people are pulling in good mixed bags of smallmouths and spots up in the river above point seven. He said the fish are pulling up shallow in the dingy water, which warms quicker than the clearer…
Blue Ridge: Level: 17.5 feet below full pool. Temp: High 40s to low 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Nathan Lewis said the smallmouths are on main-lake points in 15 to 18 feet of water, and they are biting a 1/4-oz. tube jig in either brown or green pumpkin. “Anything that imitates a crawdad,” he said.…
Blue Ridge: Level: 16.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 68-70 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The spots are biting at Blue Ridge, said Heath Pack. “We are catching a few smallmouths, too,” he said. “We are catching some nice 2 1/2- to 3-lb. spots deep on a drop-shot rig in water 20 to 30 feet deep.…
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