LAKE OCONEE IS FULL, 50S




The lake is full stained over most of the main lake muddy from the 44 bridge north. The Richland creek arm of the lake is clear. The temperature is 50 to 53 degrees.


Bass fishing is fair. The lake is stained and the rivers clear in Richland Creek. With all the rain and cold the bite has slowed. Jigs fished under docks in the back of the major coves off of the main lake. Work your way out of the coves. Small crank baits fished on the outside of the docks in the same area will also produce. If the sun comes out move out to the deep humps and fish a Capt. Mack’s spoon on the schools you find on your Lowrance.

BY CAPTAIN MARK SMITH, REEL TIME SERVICE 404 803 0741 reeltime@bellsouth.net





Striper/hybrid report by Mark Smith of Reel Time Service. Phone 404 803 0741
reeltime@bellsouth.net


Striper and hybrid fishing is fair. The cold weather has scattered the fish. The best way to put fish in the boat is with the umbrella rig. We are using a 4 arm 9 jig rig. We are fishing it 100 feet behind the boat at 3 mph. While you are pulling the rig use your Lowrance to look for large schools of bait. When you find the bait, use a spoon to jig for the stripers in the schools of bait.


Meet Captain Mark Smith at the 2019 Progressive Atlanta Boat Show.


The 2019 Progressive Atlanta Boat Show is January 10 to 13, 2019 at the Georgia World Congress Center building A. We will have room 312 for FISHING SEMINARS and there will be one seminar every hour each day. http://www.atlantaboatshow.com/seminars


LOWRANCE TIPS: ADVANCED NOISE REJECT OFF, SURFACE CLARITY OFF, SCROLL SPEED NORMAL. Never alter the scrolling speed. PING SPEED at 18 ON CONSOLE, 16 at BOW


We have all the details for our On the Water SONAR School on our web SCHOOLS page. We have the LOWRANCE LIVE and 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.


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


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