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Fishing
There is just something special about fishing for walleye on a moon-lit night at Blue Ridge Lake. Ever since I was a child I remember casting a doll fly across the rip-rap rocks at the dam. The moon would rise to my back, and the water would glisten with every ripple of wind. I would cast…
Blue Ridge: Level: 16 feet below full pool. Temp: 48 to 50 degrees. Clarity: The river and the backs of the creeks are dingy. Bass: Good for smallmouths, according to Blue Ridge fishing guide Nathan Lewis. “And the muddy water has made the largemouths more vulnerable around wood structure on the banks,” he said. “A…
Blue Ridge: Level: 24.3 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 40s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Hit or miss, said Blue Ridge guide Nathan Lewis. “One day you will do good, and then the next day nothing.” The same winter tactics are still holding up — Shad Raps on rocky main-lake banks early in the day then…
Blue Ridge: Level: 25.4 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 40s in the river and 50 in the main lake. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The topwater bite fell off with colder temperatures in mid December. If the fish aren’t on top, Blue Ridge guide Nathan Lewis recommends fishing down until you find them. His two main…
Blue Ridge: Level: 25.6 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair for smallmouths, said guide Nathan Lewis. He has been catching smallmouths early and late by throwing a Zoom Super Fluke or a small crankbait like a No. 5 Shad Rap or Bill Norman’s Deep Little N on rocky banks. Later…
Blue Ridge: Level: 25.7 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 70 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Mountain-lakes fishing guide Nathan Stuart said that Blue Ridge has been tough recently as the lake turns over. “With a few days of cold weather to let the lake go ahead and turn over, then the fishing should bust loose.”…
Blue Ridge: Level: 22.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 77 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Guide Nathan Lewis called in a fishing report from the lake Monday morning, Sept. 24. He was fishing with J.R. Donalson. Blue Ridge was busier than usual for a Monday, possibly because Carters is shut down due to low water.…
Blue Ridge: Level: 9.2 feet below full pool. Temp: Low to mid 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Mark Keaton says he hears that others are doing well catching smallmouths on rocky main-lake points with tube jigs and drop-shot rigs — but he’s not. “I haven’t been able to get on the smallmouths,” he said. He…
Level: 13.1 feet below full pool. Temp: High 70 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Blue Ridge guide Nathan Lewis said he has been doing well on smallmouths and spots using three different patterns: tube jigs, topwater and flukes. He has been catching bass on main-lake points and rocky banks with stumps by shaking a tube…
Blue Ridge: Level: 10 feet below full pool. Temp: 72-73 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: “The bass fishing is terrible,” said Mark Keaton. “It is very, very tough. I was on the lake Wednesday (June 20) and fished for five hours and got one bite on a Texas-rigged junebug worm. There was a pot tournament going…
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