LAKE SEMINOLE IS DOWN .6 FEET, CLEAR & 50’S BY MATT BATY


Bass fishing is good to excellent. Bass are in pre spawn mode and can be found in ditches, drains, grass lines and depressions that are near sandy spawning areas. The two best techniques that are happening right now are fishing a lipless crankbait and a bladed jig. The cold weather has knocked the hydrilla way back, so you’ll need to use your Lowrance electronics and Structure Scan to find and locate the grass flats that have the hydrilla growing about 3 to 4 feet from the top. With the Lowrance units, you can also easily see schools of bass that are on top of the grass. Once you find it, just comb the flat until you find little groups of fish. For the lipless crankbait, we have two different setups. We use a Jenko Fishing Rip Knocker 75 in flaming craw on 50 pound test Sunline braid and 16 pound test Sunline fluorocarbon. We use a Lews Custom Pro Speed Spool with an 8:3:1 gear ratio paired with a 7’ 3” medium/heavy fast action Buddha Stick. Depending on how thick the grass is, we switch between the braid and the fluorocarbon. For the bladed jig, we use a 3/8 and a 1/2 ounce Buddha Baits Swagger Jig in green pumpkin with a 4 inch Big Bite Baits Cane Thumper in green pumpkin. The bladed jig setup works best on a 7:5:1 Lews Magnesium reel, 16 pound test Sunline FC Sniper and a 7’ 6’ medium/heavy fast action Buddha Stick. As the warm weather approaches, look for the bass to move up on the sand, especially during sunny days.


Based on the Fish and Gamer Forecaster, the middle morning is good and there is a very good to excellent midafternoon feeding period this weekend.


We have all the details for our On the Water SONAR School on our web SCHOOLS page. We have the LOWRANCE CARBON and LOWRANCE GEN 3 Touch and the game changing technology in the NEW 3D Lowrance Technology on our boat. Bring any HDS machine only to Lake Lanier and learn it ALL in one day. Call Ken for details. See our Southern Fishing Schools page for the latest screen shots of the LOWRANCE 3D technology. See bass over a ladder in 10 feet of water 158 feet from my boat. www.lowrance.com


Ask for a free sonar set up sheet by sending me an email to ken@southernfishing.com. Please tell me what model machine you have.


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We have these books for sale BASS FISHING ON WEST POINT LAKE BASS FISHING LAKE RUSSELL BASS FISHING WEST POINT LAKE and BASS FISHING LAKE HARTWELL. These books have lots of bass fishing and covers every week of the year. Each book $39.00. If you would like a sample of any book send us an e mail to ken@southernfishing.com.


We offer these waypoints for sale. You get the coordinates and you load them into your GPS unit for Lake Allatoona for $99.00 Lake Lanier for $99.00 Lake Oconee for $99.00 Lake Weiss for $99.00 Lake Hartwell for $99.00 WAYPOINTS ARE NOT REFUNDABLE


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