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Hartwell: Level: 3.0 feet below full pool. Temp: 82 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The summertime topwater bite is in full swing at Hartwell. Almost any main-lake point, hump, reef marker or bridge piling is a place to get bit by either a largemouth, a striper or a hybrid. In the Hartwell Skeeter Eliminator Series tournament…
The great thing about Rounds 4-6 of the Skeeter Eliminator Series is that GON editors ride along for all the tournaments. We take detailed notes and publish each angler’s diary about how they spend their seven hours on the water. The following pages contain diaries from the Round 5 Hartwell and Jackson tournaments. The Skeeter…
With wind-blown chop rocking the surface of Lake Hartwell, close attention was necessary to keep up with the commotion made by a white stickbait being ripped as quickly and erratically as possible across the surface. For an instant it was lost from sight behind a whitecap, before emerging on the face of the wave with…
Hartwell: Level: 2.8 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 70s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The topwater bite on main-lake points, humps, reef markers and bridge pilings is under way. Largemouths, spots, hybrids and stripers are all hitting topwater very early and very late in the day. Sammys, pearl-colored Zoom Super Flukes, Zara Spooks, Chug Bugs —…
Hartwell: Level: 1.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 65 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: The fabled “Spooks & Flukes” bite is just getting under way at Hartwell, said Mark Waller. On April 14, Mark and his son Cain won a tournament with 22 pounds of bass. On April 21, it took 18 pounds to win. “The…
With 56,000 acres of surface water and a wealth of linesides and largemouths, Hartwell may be known as a striper and hybrid fishery, as well as a great place for topwater bass explosions in the spring. But one thing that is often overlooked on this large lake on the Georgia/South Carolina border is the crappie…
Hartwell: Level: 1.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 58-61 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. According to Hartwell guide Buster Green, the fish are staging ahead of the spawn, and you should be able to catch bass off nearly any main-lake or secondary point. “They will hit a crankbait, like a Shad Rap or a shallow-running…
Hartwell: Level: 3.9 feet below full pool. Temp: 50-52 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Wayne Holcomb was on the lake February 23 pre-fishing for a club tournament. He said the worm bite was off, the fish didn’t want a Shad Rap either, but he and his partner caught some fish on a Norman’s crankbait. Wind was…
Tournament bass anglers are a serious and dedicated bunch. You’ll find them lined up at first light at boat ramps on most of our Georgia reservoirs, ready to blast off for a day of competition. Winter is no exception. While most of us prefer to sit at home on blustery cold days and sharpen hooks,…
Hartwell: Level: 3.9 feet below full pool. Temp: 51 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Guides Wayne White and Buster Green won a mid-January tournament on the lake with a string that weighed more than 20 pounds and included a 5.13-lb. spot. “The bass are deep,” said Wayne. “We caught them on spoons and jig ’n…
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