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Bass Fishing
Fishy-looking cypress trees, docks, brush and grass, plus December bass that love to hold and feed in that shallow cover. What more could a bass angler ask for in December? Lake Blackshear has it all, and those shallow December bass will hit a variety of baits. Lake Blackshear is an 8,500-acre Crisp County Power Commision…
From a very early age, Kenny Johnson dreamed of winning bass fishing championships. His grandfather worked as a guide on West Point Lake in the late 1970s and competed in some of the first tournaments held there. Kenny’s father followed in the same footsteps, fishing tournaments in the lakes of west Georgia and east Alabama.…
If you like fishing shallow rocks, wood and grass, Weiss is the place to be in November. Big Coosa spots and quality largemouth are around seawalls, logs and brush, feeding up for winter, and they are easier to target and catch on a wide variety of baits. The Coosa River flows out of Georgia at…
November is a great time to go bass fishing. Fish are feeding up for winter, they are on predictable patterns and boat traffic is way down. That last one may be the most important factor at Lanier. Magnum spots are feeding heavily, and you can fish all day without getting washed off the lake by…
Stumps, lily pads, grass and plenty of big largemouth bass—Seminole had it all. Seminole has so many quality 3- and 4-lb. largemouth, if you stick with the places bass live and work for them, you can catch a good limit in October. Seminole is a 37,500-acre U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake with its dam…
When George Perry caught his immortal world record 22-lb., 4-oz. largemouth in a backwater slough near Montgomery Lake in Telfair County on June 2, 1932, he unwittingly caused Nickie Rich and a handful of other singular Georgia bass anglers a great disservice. By setting such an imposing and seemingly unbeatable record, many of the exceptional…
Sinclair offers you many bass-fishing choices in September. If you like probing deep, main-channel point ledges for bass in current, Sinclair is a good choice this month. Meanwhile, you can also catch bass shallow around docks and find some feeding on bream in pockets around grass and wood. Sinclair is an old Georgia Power lake…
September is often our meanest month for fishing a big reservoir. Although the days are getting shorter and fall is coming, the lakes just don’t seem to want to start changing, so fishing remain tough. But you can have fun and find some fast schooling activity while catching spotted bass on Lake Allatoona this month.…
If you like catching shallow summertime bass, Lake Oconee is the place to fish in August. The lake is lined with docks in most areas, and there are many grassbeds and seawalls that hold shallow bass all summer. Lake Oconee is an almost 19,000-acre Georgia Power Co. lake northeast of Eatonton on the Oconee River.…
What is your favorite way to catch summer bass? Do you like dredging ledges with crankbaits, or is popping pads with frogs more your style? How about bumping mid-depth brushpiles with big worms? No hindsight ip unit displayed. You have all three options at Lake Eufaula in July. Eufaula has been known as a great…