LAKE GEORGE IS DOWN .28 FEET, MID 80’S

Bass fishing is good. The shallower water bite is good. Use a black and blue swim jig and in the gator grass or a Big Bite Baits Top Toad in green pumpkin pearl or a Natural Red null frog. Fish these isolated grass patches and gator grass right off the main lake around the mouth of null Creek and the duck blind. When the sun gets up, you can either stay shallow or head to the ledges. Flip mats with a Big Bite Baits fighting frog in green pumpkin or black blue with a 1 ounce True Tungsten weight or stick with the bull frog all day long in the pads. The crank bait bite has been great when you find them grouped up on the ledges but look for these schools to be headed shallow soon following the bait. Crank the ledges with a #7 Fat Free Shad in Citrus or Foxy Shad on 10 pound test GAMMA Fluorocarbon. The best crank bait bite on the ledges has been from River Bend to the causeway. There is also a good Carolina rig bite on the steeper ledges up north and in the man made brush piles on the south end of the lake. Look for ledges with a hard bottom in 15 foot of water on top, with your boat sitting in 30 to 40 feet. Slowly drag your rig all the way down the ledge because some of the better fish have been hanging at the bottom of the ledge. The best brush piles down south have been in the 12 to 15 foot range close to ditches leading into the larger creeks and on the flats close to the creek mouths. The best colors up north have been June bug and plum apple with green pumpkin being the dominate color on the south end. Learn how to use the Lowrance Structure Scan and Down Scan technology with Southern Fishing on the Water fishing schools. ken@southernfishing.com