LAKE HARTWELL IS FULL 80S

Bass fishing is fair. The early morning bite is fair until 10 a.m. The rock ledge's where the channel comes in really tight is a favorite during the summer months. These areas hold a little bit cooler water and plenty of places for bass to hide along with good amounts of oxygen. A 1/8 ounce or 1/4 finesse style jig with a twin trailer or a six inch finesse worm will work. Also use a very short Carolina rig with no more than ten pound test line and a very light weight. The bigger the rock and steeper the bank, the better the fishing will be. Vertical jigging bridge pylons is another good hot weather technique to use but downsizing is the key. It is hot and the bass are going to be sluggish so fish really slowly.

Here is a GPS sample of the Bass fishing locations we have for sale. 34 29 102 83 03 105 Old pond dam and a Carolina rig and crank bait will work.

This Hartwell line side report is from Lake Hartwell guide Captain Cefus McRae, 404 402 8329 cefus@nutsandboltsfishing.com

The summer heat is here! With daytime temps in the upper 90’s, the water surface temperature has also risen dramatically. The stripers and hybrids have settled into their typical summer pattern, meaning they’ve moved to the south end of the lake and for the most part…they have gone deep. Although you might find them feeding throughout the water column during the heat of the day, the best time to catch lineside now is going to be early morning or just as the sun touches the treetops in the evening. By the way, if you choose to fish into the evening, be sure to drop a HydroGlow underwater light over the side to attract baitfish…and it won’t be long until the stripers show up. Start your search in the morning from the Seneca River Tugaloo River fork and work your way south on the river, all the way to the dam. Creek mouths and mid lake humps that rise to 25 feet, which also have a main creek arm nearby would be good places to drop a live herring on a #1 or #2 Gamakatsu octopus hook with a 3 to 4 foot fluorocarbon leader. We typically spool reels with 17 to 20 pound Stren mono and use 10 to 12 pound fluorocarbon leader. That way if a fish gets hung up in the standing timber, the leader will break below the egg sinker and the fish can swim away. Also be sure to have a MirroLure Top Dog rigged for top water just in case a school of hybrids comes up to munch on a wad of baitfish. If you want to fish mid day, pull out your lead core rods. Run 8 colors of lead core with 30 feet of 15 pound mono as a leader. Tie on a 2 ounce WhoopAss Buck tail jig that is tipped with an expired herring, and pull the rig along the edges of the river channel and deep creek channels. If you get hung up in the trees occasionally, then you know you are fishing in the right spots. Capt. Mack’s Pro Briella rigs are also catching fish in the river channels. Be sure you have an Umbrella Retriever, because you will definitely catch a tree, and you don’t want to leave your umbrella rig to the murky depths. SideScan technology by Lowrance/Simrad is a huge help when trolling, to let you see the schools that may be just beyond your trolling spread. Make a wide turn to move laterally toward the schools and you should have rods bending in a few minutes. Set the drags on your reels a little past the point where no line leaves the reel at your trolling speed. With too much drag, you may get a bite but the speed/power of the boat pulls the hook from the fish’s mouth. And a screaming drag also sounds cool! The Power Reeling bite is starting to fire up as well. You’ll be fishing in 60 to 90 feet of water that’s close to standing timber. Again, a 2 ounce WhoopAss buck tail with a Project X pearl saucertail will trigger the reaction strike. Free spool the jig to the bottom and then wind up at a reasonably fast retrieve rate. The key to catching here is you need to see fish on your sonar. This is a great way to put some extra fish in the box once the trolling or live bait bite has slowed down. Stay safe on the water. Use your SiriusXM Marine weather app to keep you informed on the afternoon pop up storms so you don’t get caught in them. And be sure to stay hydrated. Tight lines, Captain Cefus McRae and Buck, The Wonder Dog

Ken Sturdivant is on the Lowrance Pro Staff and teaches electronics among other fishing skills. All the details for our On the Water SONAR School are on our web SCHOOLS page. We have the LOWRANCE LIVE and the NEW 3D Lowrance Technology on our boat. See Bass over a ladder in 10 feet of water 158 feet from my boat. www.lowrance.com kensturdivant@att.net

Ken Sturdivant is on the Lowrance Pro Staff and teaches electronics among other fishing skills. All the details for our On the Water SONAR School are on our web SCHOOLS page. We have the LOWRANCE LIVE and the NEW 3D Lowrance Technology on our boat. See Bass over a ladder in 10 feet of water 158 feet from my boat. www.lowrance.com kensturdivant@att.net

Call Brian Leiva at www.bbgmarine.com 888 570 0916 for all your Lowrance and other technology.

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We have these books for sale BASS FISHING LAKE CLARKS HILL BASS FISHING WEST POINT LAKE BASS FISHING LAKE RUSSELL and BASS FISHING LAKE HARTWELL. These books have lots of Bass fishing locations and covers every week of the year. Each book $39.00. If would like a sample of any book send us an e mail to kensturdivant@att.net.

We have these Waypoints for sale. You get the coordinates and load them into your GPS unit. Lakes are Lake Allatoona Lake Lanier Lake Jackson Lake Oconee Lake Weiss Lake Clarks Hill Lake Hartwell and Lake Russell. All waypoints are $99.00. Ask for a sample kensturdivant@att.net. WAYPOINTS ARE NOT REFUNDABLE.

Ask for a free sonar set up sheet by sending me an email to kensturdivant@att.net. Please tell me what model machine have.

We have three Tackle Box Lists for free BASS FISHING TACKLE CRAPPIE FISHING TACKLE and STRIPER TACKLE. All three are available on one request. Send us an e mail requesting this list to kensturdivant@att.net

If would like to have the 2020 Bass Master Daily Planner dates and times to fish send an e mail with this request to kensturdivant@att.net Tell us want the 2020 Bass Master Daily Planner dates and times to fish with r e mail. We will send the 2020 Full Moon dates also.

Send an e mail to kensturdivant@att.net and ask for the FREE! CHIRP article Bass Crappie or Striper tackle box list LOWRANCE LIVE SIGHT set up sheet or how to find STRIPER year round.

FREE! Copy of How to find Stripers year round by Ken Sturdivant Southern Fishing Schools Inc. ask for this article at kensturdivant@att.net