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| Altamaha Flathead Ties State Record
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On Sunday, July 11, at about 9 a.m., Jim Dieveney, of Screven, caught an 83-lb. flathead catfish out of the Altamaha River near Baxley that officially ties the 4-year-old state record.
Fishing from a dock on the bend in the river near Carter’s Bight Landing in Appling County, Jim hooked into the fish shortly after dropping a live, 6-inch bream to the bottom of a 20- to 25-foot deep hole. He was using heavy baitcasting tackle with 50-lb. test mono.
“I...
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Been having midsummer dreams of hard-fighting bass and wishing you could catch some? The heat is bad in August, but spotted bass on Lanier get on patterns that are predictable, and you can catch big...
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“He’s right in the middle,” said Keith “Bird Dog” Walker, of Douglas, as his Bang-O-Lure landed softly between the crumbled pillars of an old bridge at the water’s...
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One-thousand one-hundred thirteen bass 10 pounds or better and counting. No, that was not a typographical error… 1,113 bass 10 pounds or heavier. That is not the number of double-digit bass...
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| A Tripletail Treat
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw a tripletail up close; the fish flopping on the deck of the shrimp trawler I had boarded looked like a huge brown bream.
“What in the world is that?” is the reaction of many who see a tripletail for the first time.
This was well before the days of mandatory TEDS (Turtle Excluder Devices) on shrimp trawlers on the Atlantic Coast, so it was not uncommon for the shrimpers to catch large 25-lb. and better “sunfish” as they referred to them. Bear in mind, I had lived and fished on the Georgia coast my entire life and f0elt that I knew a lot about it, but I was about to learn more and become fascinated by what many of the locals who targeted this species often called the “eddy fish.”
Tripletail are off the beaches right now. They’re fun to fish for, fight like crazy, and they taste fantastic. These fish are unique in that they lie on their sides on the surface...
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| Catching Chattahoochee’s Wild Brown Trout Just Above Atlanta
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For the serious trout angler, nothing much compares to hooking and landing a wild trout. Most purists would rather land a small wild fish over a large stocked fish especially if they had to work harder for it. A case in point is anglers hiking deep into the hills to fish the headwaters of a stream...
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| Chattahoochee River Cats Caught Deep In The Holes
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When Shane Smith moved to Fort Benning, he brought with him a love of fishing — catfishing to be precise. An Ohio native, Shane and his brother established a catfish tournament trail a few years back called Hilljack Catfishing that was designed for avid catfishermen to compete and promote conservation.
Shane is Capt. Shane...
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