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 striper fishing today with customer Jeff Furlong. We had a good day boating 12 sripers in the 8-15 pound range. All our stripers hit umbrella rigs trolled at 15-18 ft. depths. We had good action from around 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. with a lull in the middle of the day. Later that afternoon […]
Striper action on Lanier is starting to improve. Its been a tough month for the stripers as the lake is still in the turnover stage. As the water temps drop into the mid 50’s the stripers should get more predictable and move into the main creeks on the upper end of Lanier. This week I […]
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Fishing for stripers is at its peak. We are catching big stripers and big numbers. We boated one fish last week that weighed right at 30 pounds and had several days that we boated over 30 fish. Live Bluebacks fished at 60-80 ft. depths are producing the best for the stripes. Today was a little tough […]
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Tags: active schools, afternoon, afternoon trips, Bluebacks, engineers office, fish, generation times, peak, water, water release
Striper fishing was exc ellent yesterday. We boated around 13 stripers up to 12-13 pounds on live bluebacks on downrods and flatlines. The spotted bass and channlel catfish are mixed in with the stripers feeding also. This year I have seen lots of channel cats in the 3-5 pound range, must be good numbers of em […]
Striper action is heating up on Lanier. Most of the action this past month has been late evening and night with long A bombers and Mcstick jerk baits. Although last week day time action picked up. For the stripers try flatlining live bluebacks back in the creeks. All the fish will be shallow this time of […]
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Crappie fishing is still excellent. Fished a half day charter last Saturday and boated around 65 fish with some really nice ones. The crappie are starting to move back into the creeks around blowdowns where they will so0n spawn when the water temps and moon phase lines up. Had a good trip to Hartwell last […]
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Went on half day charter with John and Lisa McCalpin last Friday. We had a good day fishing for crappie having around 60 keepers at the end of the day. We caught all our fish on 1/32 oz. tube jigs at 3-8 ft. depths. We caught a few pushing the 1 pound range but most […]
Went to lake Hartwell Jan. 20 with customer Earl Moore. We always try to plan a trip to Hartwell on MLK week. We usually hammer the crappie there starting mid to late January and that day we did load em up. We lauched the boat around 10:00 am that morning and were loading back up […]
Went out yesterday to check the crappie action. We hit the water around noon and fished a couple of hours. We boated around 25 crappie up to about a pound. Caught several nice bass also mixed in with the crappie. All our fish hit tube jigs at 15-20 ft. depths. This month crappie action will […]
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