Went crappie fishing yesterday with customer Mark Hey. Fishing was excellent. We boated well over 100 fish with a few in the pount range. Most were just good hand size crappies, excellent eating . The water temperature was 50 degrees yesterday which is around 10 degrees warmer than it was last year at this same time. […]
Went to Hartwell with buddy Eddie Hicks for a crappie trip. Fishin was a little tougher than last week. The sun didnt poke out all day and the air temperature hovered around 38 degrees. This usually makes for tough conditions during the winter months when you dont get the sunlight warming the water a few degrees. We […]
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Went out on a charter today for crappie. This was my first day on the lake since the snow blast. Water temps today ranged anywhere from 38.9 to 42 degrees which is extremely cold for Georgia resevoirs. We managed to catch around 37 good size crappie. All our fish hit tube jigs at depths ranging […]
Good fishing is just around the corner. About a 2-4 degree rise in water temperature should kick off the fish into a feeding frenzy. Usually in years past when we had severe cold winters the fish go crazy when the weather finally does break. I had a die hard customer that wanted to try for […]
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Tags: cold winters, corner, crappies, degree rise, feeding frenzy, fish, hartwell, Report, stripers, water
Went back up to Hartwell today on a crappie trip. Conditions were a little different as the cold rain this past Thursday cooled water surface temps to anywhere from 44-47 degrees. We managed to land around 60 crappie on tube jigs fished at 5-30 depths. Our largest fish was near a pound and a half. […]
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Tags: cold rain, Conditions, cooled water, hartwell, largest fish, Report, surface, trip conditions, tube jigs, water