LAKE OCONEE IS DOWN ONE FOOT, 80S

Lake Oconee is down one foot. The water temperature is 83 to 85 degrees and the lake is clear even up the rivers. With the shorter days the water temperature has stopped rising. The bass have started to move out of the deep water and a few are chasing bait into the coves and creeks all over the lake. A buzz bait at first light will still produce for the first hour of daylight. Soft plastics fished under docks and around wood structure in the mouth of the coves mid lake will produce during daylight hrs. Crank baits fished around bridge rip rap will also produce when Georgia Power is pulling water in the afternoons

Striper fishing is poor. Don't look for much improvement in the striper fishing until fall. I tell ever one the striper bite will start after the middle of October.

Crappie fishing is fair to good. This is the best fishing on Oconee during these dog days of summer. Some days you can catch big slabs and other days only the small fish will bite. Long lining (trolling) will produce some nice catches. You will need to run your jigs about 10 to 12 feet deep. Down lining crappie minnows into tree tops and on ledges on the main lake at 12 to 15 feet deep will also produce a lot of fish. Use your Lowrance to locate the fish in the tree tops and then drop your bait down to the fish.

Ken Sturdivant, Lowrance Pro Staff, will host a FREE BASICS OF SONAR class on October 20, 2018 at 2pm at Advantage Marine at 301 Atlanta Road, Cumming, Georgia 30040. All are welcome.

LOWRANCE TIPS: VIEW: NO SPLIT, ZOOM, BOOTTOM LOCK, and FLASHER PALLETTE: Palette 1 for 200 kHz, palette 3 for 83 KHz. TEMP GRAPH: Use as needed DEPTH LINE: Use as needed A SCOPE: Vertical flasher use as needed PREVIEW: CURSOR ON or OFF FISH ID: OFF

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 [email protected]. 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 [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