LAKE ALLATOONA IS FULL, 80 S & CLEAR

Bass fishing is fair. Fishing is good only if you are fishing late in the evening or early in the am. Day time the bite is tough and deep. There is a fair top water bait and it will take a well placed Sammy lure to get them to react. During mid day the drop shot bite is the best thing going. Fish the long points as well as deep brush in the 18 to 24 foot range. The brush bite seems to be better than the points. Keep the Zoom Super Fluke ready for and schooling fish and the work the rip rap areas with this bait also.

This striper and hybrid report fishing report has been brought to exclusively by Robert Eidson of First Bite Guide Service, 770 827 6282. www.firstbiteguideservice.com Lake Allatoona, Georgia email: [email protected]

Line side fishing great. The summer bite is in full swing and we are catching a ton of fish down lining and pulling umbrella rigs on the south end of the lake. The dissolved oxygen levels have plummeted up north, and the fish have all moved south to between Bartow Carver and the dam. Check Clear Creek, Stamp Creek, McKaskey Creek and Cooper Branch on up to the Bethany Bridge area and into the Allatoona Creek Arm. The thermocline is starting to set up at about 28 feet, and we are catching all of our fish either down lining or trolling umbrella rigs between 18 to 28 feet. Down lining a threadfin shad is absolutely the best bite on the lake with trolling running a close second. But remember we are in the dog " Days " of summer and shad will die quickly so take a lot of bait or keep a bucket of shiners as a backup. They're biting shiners about 25 percent as well as they're hitting the threadfins. Be sure to match the size of your hook to the size of your bait or the fish won't hit. For example a size 6 Gamakatsu octopus on a medium shiner is a good match. When using smaller hooks, be sure to use quality hooks so the fish don't straighten them out.

Georgia Outdoor News will host the BLAST! at the Infinite Energy Center, formerly known as the Gwinnett Center, just off I 85 north of Atlanta. The address is 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth, GA 30097. The Outdoor Blast will begin this year at 1 p.m. on Friday, July 29 and runs through the weekend until 5 p.m. Sunday, July 31.

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The NEW! Atlanta Outdoors Expo is March 11 and 12, 2017 at the Georgia World Congress Center. www.atlantaoutdoorsexpo.com. contact Tim Fearney Show Director at 678 822 9804
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We have the LOWRANCE Gen 3 Touch and 3D NEW Lowrance Technology on our boat. Bring any HDS machine only to Lake Lanier and learn it ALL in one day. Call Ken for details.

Ask for a free sonar set up sheet by sending me an email to [email protected]

Anglers 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 [email protected].

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

Saturday, August 27, 2016 2pm at Bass Pro Shops in Lawrenceville, learn SONAR! LOWRANCE PRO STAFF, KEN STURDIVANT

Our mailing address is Southern Fishing Schools Inc. 106 Hickory Ridge Cumming Georgia 30040. 770 889 2654