Lake Oconee Fishing Reports
Target - March and April are the best months to target white bass, as they make spawning runs up the Oconee and Apalachee rivers. Equipped with 3-weight fly rods, we wrestled and untangled our way through a low rhododendron canopy, casting creatively to best present our dry fly offering in pools, runs, and pockets. The topwater and swimbait bite in October can be outstanding. Use the Carolina rigs also. Copyright 2013 Southern Fishing Schools Inc. calls us to set up a school Maps and Depth Finders or SONAR and Rods Reels and Lures for Bass. The Flint, Chattahoochee, and Spring Creek arms of the lake are about 84 degrees with a slight stain. Top water baits are still working during early morning and late afternoon. The best results over the past week have been on a Carolina rig with a 5 to 6 in worm in green or pumpkin, fished around sea walls in the middle of the big coves from 44 bridge south. Due to the moon conditions night brightness levels are at 94%. If you need a fishing licence you can purchase one directly from Lake Oconee Fishing License 24/7. Little River, the Etowah River and Allatoona Creek will be great until we start to see the water recede due to the winter drawdown. The water is still high on the east side, but you should be able to cast or troll up a few bites from bowfin or pickerel (jackfish) with in-line spinners. Also try night crawlers or cut bait fished on the bottom. If you're after white bass in particular, March and April are the best months because the white bass are spawning.
Lake Oconee Crappie Fishing Report
Technique - Popular year-round baits include spinnerbaits, crankbaits, jerkbaits, jig-head worms, jigs and other plastic baits. Prices and optons are listed including non resident fishing licenses. Fatty Alerts are automated email notifications whereby you are sent an email ONLY when your favorite streams have a great forecast. The moon in the night skies over Lake Oconee is in a Waning Gibbous phase. He has also had success with spooks. Doug Nelms - Lake Oconee. When dock shooting the biggest fish are usually the first to bite. Conditions should improve going into next week, and the bite should pick up. The topwater bite is hopefully finally here. There are no fishing reports for Spring + Largemouth Bass. To catch fish all year the latest technology takes all the guess work out of where they live.
Lake Oconee Fishing Report
Bass: Bass are moving into shallower water at this time and are starting to hit spinnerbaits and some topwater lures, especially early and late in the day. Stripers are back and Hungry - This is the start of our wide open, big mad striper bite on Lake Oconee. What is the best fly line? Look for them on points, flats, and humps. Crickets and worms are excellent live bait for bream. Swim baits and crank baits are showing good returns, too.
Lake Oconee Fishing Spots
You are able to visually see how much elevation is dropped along a stream. Lake Hartwell Bass (Report courtesy of guide Matt Justice via GON's Fishing Report) — Baitfish are on the move to the backs of the creeks looking for oxygen, and the fish are following. Also, there are reports of increased white bass bites around ledges, with the best bite being just before sunset. Drops live minnow down and start catching. Keep a Zara Spook ready in a shad pattern or chrome and try a few casts on shallow rocks during twilight. It's a good idea to fish a smaller bait like a 1/8 or ¼ ounce size and a larger, noisier bait like a ½ ounce size. The water color is getting better, and if we don't get any more big rains, it's going to be great. He flung white Satilla Spins tipped with crickets to catch 76 panfish (mostly bluegills) on Wednesday and 41 panfish and a flathead catfish on Thursday. Rentals: Pontoon boats.
Fishing line should be easily visible to help see the bites as the spoon is falling vertically. Technique - Live bait, jigging spoons, and artificial baits that imitate shad are recommended. One of the best lakes in the area for redear sunfish. It seems to be lasting only about 3 hours, but within that time period it is wide open. For probing deep drop offs, ledges, points, and deep grass a deep diving crankbait is just the ticket. So far this fall the Berkley Canewalker in chrome has been the best bait. The Duration Hydrograph is a graphical presentation of recent daily streamflow, plotted over the long-term statistics of streamflow for each day of the year.