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Fishing Reports
If you are an angler, you have to love the fall. We get less competition from our hunting brothers while they put on their camos and pursue game, the recreational boaters are home waiting for a football game to start and the lakes are quiet and smooth. Add to that the fact that almost every…
Hartwell: Level: 7.0 feet below full pool. Temp: 70-73 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: There is an excellent topwater bite going on right now. Kerry Partain has been tearing them up by fishing rip-rap early with either a spinnerbait or Little Earl crankbait. Later in the day he is fishing for schooling fish on the humps…
Hartwell: Level: 5.9 feet below full pool. Temp: 78 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Terry Whitworth was on the lake September 22 throwing topwater plugs and in a couple of hours caught a 5-lb. largemouth and three other bass in the 2 1/2- to 3-lb. range. He was fishing down the lake with Spooks, Flukes…
Hartwell: Level: 5.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 85 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Hartwell guide Steve Crenshaw said he has seen some bass schooling on main lake points and humps, and the typical summertime pattern of Spooks and Flukes on points, humps and reef markers continues. If the fish aren’t hitting on top, try a…
Level: 3.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 87-88 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. During two trips in late July, Hartwell guide Mark Waller said his parties caught eight or nine fish on five-hour trips. The fish were on main-lake points, humps and reef markers and hit mostly topwater — Spooks, flukes, and similar baits. “We…
Hartwell: Level: 3.5 feet below full. Temp: 83 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. The Flukes & Spooks pattern on main-lake humps, points and reef markers still works, said Hartwell fishing guide Mark Waller. If the topwater isn’t working for you, the back-up to that pattern is a Carolina-rigged lizard worked on the same structure. Stripers/Hybrids:…
Ziiiipppp. I heard the drag on Randy Childers’ reel make that distinctive sound that tells anglers they have just hung into something solid. When I turned and looked, Randy’s rod was doubled over, and his line was still. “Stump?” I asked. “Good fish,” Randy replied, not really talking to me as much as affirming the…
Level: 1.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 72 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is clear. Bass: Good. The Spooks & Flukes pattern is well underway. Zara Spooks, Sammys, Creek Chubs, and unweighted Zoom Super Flukes on main-lake points, humps and reef markers is a top pattern in June and throughout the summer. When the fish…
Kim Carver and Matt Ferman said changing weather conditions and a spinnerbait were key ingredients in their win at Berry’s Lake Oconee tournament Saturday, May 13. “We struggled all morning,” said Kim. “We mostly caught our fish off a Zoom lizard. We’d catch one on a dock, then one on a seawall, we probably only…
Hartwell: Level: 1 foot below full pool. Temp: Low 70s, some warmer water back in stained creeks. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Hartwell’s famous Spooks & Flukes bite is under way. The run-and-gun pattern on main-lake points, humps and reef markers was made famous by Hartwell fishing guide Mark Waller — and he is still catching fish…
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