Burton: Level: 0.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 63 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain; about 8 feet of visibility.
Bass: Good. Wes Carlton said the spots are on the main-lake points in about 30 feet of water. They’re coming up in the mornings and evenings to gorge on blueback herring. When they’re schooling on top, he’s had some luck catching them on Rapala and Lucky Craft jerkbaits. But when they go back down, he hasn’t been catching them on anything but live...
Fisherman Paul Turman lives in Hoschton. He is a transplant to Georgia from Ohio, where he grew up catching walleye and yellow perch from Lake Erie. When he moved to Georgia, he went to school on the perch (and walleye) in Georgia’s mountain...
Lake Burton, with its deep, gin-clear water, has earned the reputation of being a tough bass-fishing lake most of the year. There are two months that are an exception, however, and those months are April and May, according to Wayne Holcomb of...
