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Fishing
West Point: Level: 5.2 feet below full pool. Temp: Mid 50s. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Guide Keith Hudson reports, “Schools of spotted bass mixed with hybrids, white bass and stripers and even the occasional largemouth can still be caught on jigging spoons and drop-shot rigs on deeper offshore structures. A day producing a mixed bag of…
West Point: Level: 6.8 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 40s and low 50s Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Guide Keith Hudson reports, “Baits such as suspending jerkbaits, unweighted flukes, Senkos and spinnerbaits are still catching a few shallow largemouth bass. Try to fish these baits in or near any remaining shallow cover or around schools…
West Point: Level: 8.3 feet below full pool. “Be careful when running the lake as the water is getting dangerously low in some areas,” said guide Keith Hudson. Temp: Mid 60s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Guide Keith Hudson reports, “The shallow bite remains pretty good now and should be about the same unless we get…
West Point: Level: 5.3 below full pool. Temp: Upper 60s to low 70s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, reports guide Keith Hudson. “The shallow bite remains good now, and it will improve even more, especially if we get some rain and continued cooler temps. Baits such as unweighted flukes, Senkos, buzzbaits and Rebel Pop-Rs are catching…
West Point: Level: 2 below full pool. Temp: Upper 70s to low 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good, reports guide Keith Hudson. “We seemed to have finally turned the corner toward fall, and the fishing has improved dramatically. The shallow bite is pretty good now and will improve even more, especially if we get some rain…
West Point: Level: 2.8 below full pool. Temp: 85-90 degrees. Clarity: Very clear. Bass: Fair, reports guide Keith Hudson. “More of the same as we move into September. Expect the shallow bite to slowly improve, especially if we get a lot of rain or cooler temps. Shallow-water baits such as unweighted Trick Worms, flukes, Senkos,…
West Point: Level: 3.5 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 80s. Clarity: Lightly stained; clear on the south end. Bass: Fair at best. Guide Keith Hudson reports, “A few of the largemouth have finally shown up on some of the deeper structure as the water temps heated up over the last few weeks. Zoom Ol’…
West Point: Level: 3.5 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 80s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Tournament pro Jordan McDonald reports, “Postspawn bass have now moved to deep water for the summer. These bass can still be caught early morning on a topwater bait in the shallows near deep channel swings, as well as in the…
There are some new fish in West Point Lake—41,264 to be exact. The DNR on May 12 stocked the lake with largemouth bass grown in a hatchery in Richmond Hill, near Savannah, according to Brent Hess, a fisheries biologist with DNR. “This is the first time we’ve ever done that, except for when it opened,”…
Many of our lakes and rivers are loaded with large, trophy-sized trash fish that no one really cares about fishing for because they are supposedly not that good to eat. Carp and gar are at the top of that list, and even if their taste and table quotient is questionable, they sure are sporting. Just…
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