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Fishing
It really was like playing musical chairs as a kid. There were three of us that kept circling the floor of a white, 23-foot Carolina Skiff. Each of us was eyeing the other, wondering which lucky angler would be positioned just right when the music stopped, or as was the case, which one would be…
“October will be a dynamite month for hybrids,” said Tony, “and they are just about to turn on here in West Point.” As he said that, guide Tony Daigrepont was just finishing his boat preparation for a live-bait hybrid trip on West Point. It had been a slow, hot summer for hybrids, and Tony was…
Half of the old Christmas tree sat above the surface, exposed like we were to the cold air and biting wind. Resting in no more than two feet of heavily-stained, 49-degree water near the shoreline, it seemed an unlikely target for a jig ‘n pig that day. But what the heck… we had just…
Edward Cagle, of Tyrone, holds the record for the biggest West Point Lake black crappie ever verified, a 3-lb., 6-oz. slab caught in 1996. For feature articles on crappie at West Point, along with archived fishing reports, click here.
West Point Lake is agruably the best bass lake in Georgia. But it is about 36,000 acres of lake. That is an awful lot of water when you are trying to fish it one cast at a time. Many of us know how to fish and the magazine racks are full of articles telling you…
When Willie Arnold, of Newnan, went crappie fishing at West Point two weeks ago, he didn’t catch a mess of fish. To be exact, he only caught one fish and went home. But a white crappie like what Willie caught is worth leaving the lake to find somebody so you can show off the fish.…
Here’s the 14-lb., 2-oz. largemouth bass record from West Point. Richard E. Little, of Powder Springs, caught the fish on April 15, 1988. West Point Lake Record Fish
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