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Sinclair: Level: 0.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 43 to 46 degrees. Clarity: Muddy. Bass: Good. Mike Cleveland said the fish are already starting to pull up a little on Sinclair. Fish small crankbaits in the ditches on the spawning flats and around rock seawalls and rip-rap. A No. 5 Shad Rap in blue/chartreuse or…
February is my favorite month for big bass. That is a bold statement, but it has proven true over and over during the last three decades. Bass have been growing eggs since fall, cold weather pulled them off into a winter pattern, but their instinct tells them that any day it will be time to…
Sinclair: Level: 0.9 feet above full pool. Temp: 43-50 degrees. Clarity: Stained to muddy. Bass: Poor. Berry’s hosted a 129-boat tournament on Jan. 23, and only eight five-fish limits were weighed in. “I got one bite,” said Aaron Batson. “Fishing has been just awful for most. Patterns have been very hard to establish, with bites…
Sinclair: Level: 0.7 feet above full pool. Temp: 51-53 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Fair to tough, said Aaron Batson. He reports, “We have been catching good numbers on 1/4-oz. Net Boy Baits ScrewBall jigheads with junebug or redbug Zoom Finesse worms in 12 to 14 feet of water. Concentrate on any brushpiles you can find.…
Sinclair: Level: 0.2 feet below full. Temp: 59 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Fishing is fair, according to Eric Perkins. “Look for the crankbait bite to continue on in December,” said Eric. “Small crankbaits like a No. 5 and a No. 7 firetiger Shad Rap are hard to beat. Also the the Rat-L-Trap bite and the…
Sinclair: Level: 0.4 feet below full. Temp: 64-67 degrees. Clarity: Heavy stain in Little River. Farther up the Oconee is a little cleaner. Bass: Aaron Batson recently went on a windy day and caught a pile of smaller fish. He was throwing Rat-L-Traps in the backs of pockets. “I don’t know how you can get…
Sinclair: Level: 0.4 feet below full. Temp: 64-67 degrees. Clarity: Heavy stain in Little River. Farther up the Oconee is a little cleaner. Bass: Aaron Batson recently went on a windy day and caught a pile of smaller fish. He was throwing Rat-L-Traps in the backs of pockets. “I don’t know how you can get…
Sinclair: Level: 0.3 feet below full. Temp: 80-84 degrees. Clarity: Heavy stain. Bass: “They’re in 2 feet of water,” said Mike Cleveland. “I can’t wait for the BFL this weekend. I’m really looking forward to that.” Mike said the fish are in the back one-thirds of the pockets. He’s flipping a black/blue, 1/4-oz. jig around…
SinclaMichael Reid loves the shallow bass bite on Sinclair this time of year.August bass fishing usually means dredging the depths for bass trying to escape the hot temperatures. Dragging a Carolina rig or fighting a big crankbait is often the way to catch them. Lake Sinclair offers a shallow alternative, with bass feeding around grassbeds,…
Sinclair: Level: 1.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 85-88 degrees. Clarity: Stained mid-lake up; clear down the lake. Bass: Mike Cleveland said there’s been a real good topwater bite some mornings. “If you get a little shower in the afternoons, there will be a mayfly hatch the next morning,” said Mike. Fish seawalls anywhere you…
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