Fishing Reports

LAKE SEMINOLE IS FULL, STAINED & LOW 80’S BY MATT BATY

Bass fishing is good. Lake Seminole is 81 degrees and the water is fairly clear. There are two good patterns to use, you can either fish the topped out milfoil and coontail with a frog, or look for submerged ...

WEST POINT LAKE IS FULL, STAINED & LOW 80’S

Bass fishing is good. Most of the largemouth bass have already spawned and the fish are small males. The fish are now roaming the points and pockets looking for food. If you will continue to move around, these fish ...

LAKE ALLATOONA IS FULL, STAINED & LOW 80’S

Bass fishing is good and the morning top water window is getting smaller and smaller on the main lake within the last week or so as the fish move into their deeper summer haunts. Fish are hitting jerk baits such as ...

LAKE HARTWELL IS AT FULL POOL & LOW 80’S

Bass fishing is fair. The warmer surface temperatures are driving the large mouth bass down to deeper and cooler water. Keep a Zoom pearl Super fluke ready all day. The spotted bass are still roaming the banks early ...

LAKE LANIER IS .08 FEET UP FROM FULL POOL, THE MAIN LAKE IS CLEAR AND CREEKS ARE SLIGHTLY STAINED & 78 DEGREES

Bass fishing is good. The lake temperature is in the low to high 70's to low 80's. The water is lightly stained in the back of the creeks and clear ...

Elevation- 1,381.78 Water Temp- 77* @ TVA Ramp
Water Clarity- 3-6’

Bass- Slow but picking up

Largemouth are near wood structure brush piles, docks, and very close to the shoreline. Flipping a green pumpkin or water melon finesse worm (whacky ...

Corn and fireball salmon eggs are two good bait choices, but a small tuffy minnows is doing very well also. The anglers have reported catching both rainbows and browns best off of Big Springs Road from the new TWRA parking lot down to Webb Bridge using minnows. Weir dam downstream ...

Water ConditionsThe water elevation is fluctuating between 793.7 and 793.9-feet. Surface temperatures in the channel may vary through the day according to the discharges from Norris Dam and the discharge through Melton Hill Dam. Because of the low level in Norris Reservoir, ...

The elevation behind the dam on June 4, 2014 at 9 PM was 994.59 feet. Water temperatures averaged out to 82.7 degrees for the week on bay areas with the upper river section at 74.6 degrees.

SUMMARY:
Fishing has been good over the past week for most species. ...

Tail water elevation was 922.30 feet on June 4 at 9 PM. Average daily discharge was 158 cfs on average for the report period. Next day release schedules and data on Cherokee Dam are available here: http://www.tva.gov/lakes/crh_r.htm
Temperatures taken on the tailrace ...

Fishing has picked up nicely in both in the rivers and bay. The water temperature is holding around 70 degrees in the middle bay with slightly higher levels in the rivers. As more anglers are actively fishing, a wider variety of fish are being found.

STRIPED BASS ...

Stripers are doing good. We have been getting some nice ones between 30-40lbs. We have been getting them on swimbaits and live bait. Trolling with planer boards works the best. The last few days the water temp has been good and cold at 52 degrees.

Trout fishing ...

WATER CONDITIONS
The predicted water level is approximately 872.4 feet above sea level.
The average surface temperature is in the low to mid 70’s.

SUMMARY

Bass are moving up into shallower water and chasing baitfish. One technique ...

Water Conditions
The river flow has calmed back down.
The water temperature is about 68-70 degrees.
Flow is down to 87 cfs above Townsend and 150 cfs below Maryville.

Summary
No big changes, but the water flow and temperature are just right ...

Georgia Inshore Fishing Report

Inshore: The water in the sounds and rivers has been an issue over the past couple of months with freshwater run-off and muddy water making many areas simply un-fishable. Lately, however, the water has been cleaning up nicely thanks ...