Georgia Weekly Report - Big Fish Time

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Weekly Report - Big Fish Time

Hope you have a chance to wet a line during the Easter holiday weekend. The reports to follow should present you with a great "menu" of opportunities to choose from.

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Lanier trophy

How about one more photo (attached) of the Sisk striper?

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Striper Sleeper

Head north and try Lake Nottely up in the river channel, in Coosa Creek, and in the Ivylog Creek embayment -both on the flats and way up the creek channel. Dusk, dawn, and dark will be the best time to hang your fish of a lifetime. Lots of hybrids are great consolation prizes, too.

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* Lanier Bass are Shallow

Stripers are migrating to deep water, but the temperatures are right for spots and largemouths to seek romance in the shallows. This dating report was verified by DNR sampling this week:

"We have been working on our spring standardized sampling for black bass and crappie on Lake Lanier this week. The bass and crappie are up shallow and getting close to spawning. We have been finding good numbers of bass and crappie in the back of coves and pockets in shallow water with brush and willows. Largemouth were more prevalent in the upper half of the lake in the river arms. We had very good samples out of Thompson Cr. and Squirrel Cr. On the lower end of the lake we found good numbers of larger spots (2 lbs. +) up shallow around rocks, rip-rap, and downed trees. We even had a couple that had flowing eggs. Big Crappie were in the back of 6-Mile Creek.
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Christopher A. Looney
Natural Resources Technician
Department of Natural Resources
Wildlife Resources Division
Fisheries Management Section
2150 Dawsonville Highway
Gainesville, GA 30501
Phone: 770/535-5498

* Burton's Good
http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=616660

Big Carters Walleye

http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=616970
* Small Ponds are Hot

We hope the small lakes guide ) is helpful, too.
Small lake fishing opportunities in NE Georgia
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* Trout - Stocker Best Bets

Try Holly, Warwoman, Low Gap (Hooch trib), Moccasin (kids and seniors), Wildcat, Cooper, and Dicks creeks, the Tallulah River, Blue Ridge Tailwater, Vogel Lake, Nancytown Lake, and Dockery Lake.

Hint: spring floods create "wash-downs," so grab a friend (for safety) and try some remote sections of these streams for stocked trout that have taken recent rides down past the bridge crowds. Examples: Coopers in the Scenic Area, Wildcat between the first two bridge crossings.

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* Blue Ridge Tailwater tug-o-war!

Video:
http://www.unicoiliarsclub.com/2011/...what-fish.html

I think the brown exceeded 23 inches.

*Amicalola DH





Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Cataula, GA
Posts: 40 Ami 4/19/11
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* Help for New Fly Fishers / Chattooga Report

It's prime time for catching, but only if you match the hatch at this time of year. Maybe this Midcurrent video will help.
http://www.midcurrent.com/news/2011/...nd-identi.html

Also, do not forget the monthly hatch charts in the rabuntu.org newsletter called Tightlines. The April chart worked for me last Sunday evening, in a very HIGH Chattooga DH, with a handful of rainbows, two browns and one brookie landed. Thanks to hatch chart creator Doug Adams and his nearly 60 years of river "research" to perfect the chart.

Catching hint: "the skate."

Some fish will hit a dead-drifted dry fly. Others want it moving like the adult naturals that are flying upstream and dropping down to the water surface to deposit eggs. Try casting the fly quartering downstream, then skate it on the surface back upstream to you for 2-3 feet, and then let it drift (drag-free) back downstream 3-4 feet. Repeat.
It's very effective with caddis.
http://www.midcurrent.com/articles/f...isflies_3.aspx

Enjoy the spring mating dances of the trout stream bugs. If you want to
know who will be dancing that night, try shaking the streamside tree limbs earlier that afternoon. Sunday's dance started at 7PM and ended at 7:30. It is truly a magical time on north GA trout streams, so come late and stay late to enjoy some great outdoor theater - and bent rods.

(Lead-free) Dredger

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Upcoming Kids Fishing Events (KFEs)

April 30 - Nancytown Lake (Habersham)
May 7 - Black Rock Lake (Rabun)

The list:
http://www.gofishgeorgia.com/news/events

A Message from UCCTU
The current issue of the UCCTU newsletter: Newsline is now available on our web site <http://ucctu.org/index.php?mid=news&iid=newsline>
Next Meeting Tuesday April 26
Join us at UCCTU's new meeting location - Ippolito's Italian Restaurant
(2 miles east of GA 400 on Holcomb Bridge Road) Jim Wentworth from the Chattahoochee National Forest Blue Ridge Ranger District will explain how brook trout stream structures are laid out to improve habitat and increase fish populations.
(Editor's note: newbies needing adoption should notice the 4/29 chapter fishing trip plan in its newsletter:
http://ucctu.org/files/newsletters/may_2011.pdf)

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Conservation
These thriving fish populations and your bent rods are a result of excellent aquatic habitat and water quality. I hope each of you has a chance to check into Georgia conservation groups, join one or more, and do your part to conserve aquatic habitat in Georgia for you and your children. Give something back to the natural resources that are making lifetime memories for you this spring.

http://www.gofishgeorgia.com/getinvo...ation-partners
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