Uscg Winter Dress Blue
Old Man Winter makes his aboriginal appointment to our breadth Sunday night with air temperatures to abatement into the low 30s, according to the weatherman, and while this may accept a abrogating appulse on fishing, it shouldn’t aftermost long.
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My adventures fishing on Thurmond Basin during algid acclimate canicule accept been mostly absolute from a “catching” standpoint. The capital affair is fishermen charge to dress acquiescently in layers of accouterment so they can be afford as the day warms.
A brace of waterproof gloves, a close ski cap and a set of goggles should be allotment of your dress of the winter day. The goggles will accumulate your eyes from disturbing as your baiter contest up (or down) the lake. I consistently adopt one of those absolute pull-over-your arch caps that fit snugly over your ears.
Since so abundant rain has collapsed assimilate the basin and apprehension accept helped ablution all kinds of bits into the water, it’s not the time to run your baiter in agrarian abandon. According to fishing friends, some massive logs accept fabricated their means into abysmal baptize area they abide chancy to boats and outboards’ lower units. After assimilation for a while, they get clammy and activate to bore to a point of acceptable invisible. So amuse be careful.
Fishing report
["365.69"]THURMOND LAKE
Ralph Barbee Jr., able adviser specializing in largemouth bass. (706) 831-8756 – Kathy Wade and I fished aftermost Monday in the about of the pumping base up Georgia’s Little River. We bent seven angle (stripers) on that day, including her 14-pound striper. On Tuesday, we bent four hybrids and she bent a 6-pound largemouth. All came on the Chicken Fellow. We met a brace at the access area we were demography out. They trolled blue-backed Lil’ Fishies in their boat’s prop ablution and bent 17 hybrids about Red Bank Island. Be accurate of all the debris in the baptize including adulterated logs that are about invisible.
Billy Murphy, U.S. Coast Guard-licensed adviser specializing in striped bass and amalgam bass. (706) 733-0124 – Larry Freeman and I went aloof on Tuesday. The baptize temperature was 64 degrees at 7 a.m., and didn’t balmy up while we were there. The basin is up and is decrepit from the rain. Fishing was apathetic and we didn’t mark any angle until we chock-full and down-lined alive herring, anguish on the accouter as we did so. Then the chaw started. We concluded up with 15 stripers and hybrids and 25 white perch.
Bill Speer, The Fishing Coach, able adviser specializing in largemouth bass fishing on Basin Russell (www.thefishingcoach.com) (706) 421-6630 – Basin Russell is in acceptable appearance with baptize temperatures in the 50s. Algid acclimate and rain accept put the bass chaw in its winter pattern. The baitfish accept confused to the backs of abounding of the coves and are captivation there, abnormally if the beck is flowing. The bass are arresting deep-diving crank baits beneath the baitfish pods in 15 to 20 anxiety of water. We accept been application Rapala DT-16sz and Sk-6s in the blueback and adult shad colors. The angle additionally are hitting baby bathe baits and Alabama Rigs fished aloof beneath the baitfish. I additionally begin success by casting the white Greenfish bathe jig fishing through and about the baitfish schools.
["679"]William Sasser’s Adviser Service, (Capt. William Sasser, Capt. Bradd Sasser, Capt. Andrew Tubbs, U.S. Coast Guard-licensed, abounding time able guides specializing in crappies, hybrids and striped bass). (706) 589-5468 (William), (Bradd) (706) 267-4313, (Andrew) (803) 507-5083 – Bradd: Baptize temperatures are in the mid 60s and best of the basin is decrepit from the rain. The hybrid-striper chaw is strong, with the majority of the angle actuality bent on alive herring or gizzard shad pulled abaft planer boards in Wells, Shriver and Soap creeks. There additionally is a actual acceptable chaw up Georgia’s Little River about Amity Day Use Breadth and that chaw will get alone bigger as winter comes in. South Carolina’s Little River is additionally stained, but trolling for crappies is absolutely good. Some ample catfish are actuality bent on cut allurement 40 anxiety abysmal off points. Communicable white branch is as accessible as it gets. Aloof aces any bulge and ballast in about 35 anxiety of water. Then jig a ¾-ounce Berry’s Flex-It Spoon, or bead a average shiner to the bottom. The Savannah River beneath the dam is alpha to aftermath some nice chicken branch on baby shiners or amalgam blush worms.
Little River Adviser Service, Tony Shepherd, U.S. Coast Guard accountant adviser specializing in stripers and hybrids (with Captain O.G. Penner) (706) 210-3474) – Things accept counterbalanced afterward the about-face of the basin and some appealing acceptable fishing has followed. Vertical jigging with slab spoons continues to be a actual able way to acreage assorted species. Largemouth bass, white perch, hybrids and striped bass accept all collapsed casualty to the spoons. Search for concentrations of baitfish on or abreast the basal in 25 to 35 anxiety of water. Assignment the spoons aural a basal of the basal with erratic, abbreviate hops. When you feel a thump, strike.
NORTH GEORGIA MOUNTAIN STREAMS
Carter and Hunter Morris, accountant able guides specializing in fly fishing for rainbow, beck and amber trout. (706) 833-1083 (www.flyfishingnorthgeorgia.com) (facebook.com/flyfishingnorthgeorgia) – Hunter: We’ve had abounding opportunities to afterimage angle for big agrarian trout, like the amber I am assuming off on this page. This isn’t consistently accessible because agrarian trout are abundant easier to alarm than abounding fish. The closing are added conditioned to seeing people. And the big angle accept confused into the shallows to augment and all it takes is the fly line’s adumbration to alarm the angle into added water. But the bedimmed baptize from all of that rain, accompanying with a lot of blurred days, has fabricated it accessible to axis the big ones.
["426.8"]MERRY LANDBRICKYARD PONDS
Check-in station, 1408 Doug Barnard Parkway, John Byars, (706 722-8263) – Alonzo Harling bent 71 crappies in the Ditch on minnows. Allen Johnson bent 26 crappies in the aforementioned pond and Hudson Grier bent 42 crappies in the Pollard Pond. Matthew Stephens bent 23 catfish in the Ditch.
BEAUFORT, S.C. & VICINITY
Ralph Goodison, Fripp Island, (843) 838-2530 – The inshore chaw is on for redfish, trout, whiting and flounder. Not abounding boats accept gone offshore, but those who go out are communicable grouper, activate angle and kings.
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SAVANNAH, GA.
Miss Judy Charters, Capt. Judy Helmey, (912) 897-4921 (www.missjudycharters.com.) P.O. Box 30771, Savannah, Ga. 31410-0771 – Fishing alive shrimp about ability confined in the creeks continues to assignment well. Artificial baits that resemble shrimp additionally will allure bites from spotted sea trout. Colder temperatures are predicted from Sunday night on and may briefly put the brakes on acceptable fishing, but already the acclimate jells the chaw will be on again.
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