September fishing has been extremely productive, especially for the Stripers! Bass fishing is also good and while the Crappie may be running a bit on the small side, the numbers are good.
The Striper bite continues to be excellent and finding fish has been fairly easy, just idle or troll along the river channel, the lower end creek channels and pockets and gulley’s running into the aforementioned creek and river channel. If you cover enough of these areas, you should see some really good groups of fish. One trick that may expedite the finding fishing process-key on the middle sections of the lower end channels, and particularity any bends in the channels. This has been a very good pattern, very consistent, and may save you some searching.
The techniques are the same, trolling Chipmunks on Lead core or pulling umbrellas are both racking up good numbers, but these techniques are for the most part yielding smaller fish. Live Herring on the downline and power reeling both being extremely productive for both numbers and size. The downline bite has been strong, but be aware of one thing - for some reason, the fish will take the bait and move up, quickly, as opposed to swimming down. If you see one of your downlines go completely slack, grab the handle and crank, fast, so that you can catch up to the fish and get the line tight. The same is true with the power reeling, you’ll hook a fish and it may run straight up. When that happens crank hard to keep the line tight or there is reasonable chance he shakes the bait free and you are left with a big one that got away story. The big Magnum spoons, Chipmunk Jigs and Herring are all good choice for the power reeling. Fishing is good all day, but afternoon/evenings seem to be the best.
Bass fishing is also good, with not much change to report here. The fish are using a big depth range, with some fish showing up shallow and others being caught as deep as 45 feet. I think the best areas are humps and long tapering points from 25 feet to as deep as 45 feet. The deeper end of that depth range will generally produce the bigger fish, but fewer numbers. Robos on the drop shot are good for numbers and consistency, Moring Dawn, green Shiner, and Warmouth have been good color choices for the worms this week. The Chattahoochee Green Pumpkin Jig is also a good producer, and Fish Heads and Flutter spoons are good to have on hand to cast at fish you see suspending over these areas. Many of the fish are not relating to brush making them easy to on the sonar, so graph an area thoroughly to locate the biggest concentrations of fish.
Crappie fishing is good, with lots of numbers but the larger fish seem to be a little tough to come by. Brush piles have been the best structures, and piles that top out around 10 to 12 feet have been holding good numbers of fish. Any brush may hold fish, but many of the fish seem to be in the middle parts to backs of the creeks, especially flats that are adjacent to a channel. Going up lake will be your best bet, say from Little Hall and up ion the Chestatee side, and into Little River/Wahoo creek, or up the ‘Hooch from Little River up. Popeye jigs and soft plastics will are both producing well. I think fishing is best in the early am, so get your Crappie dinner and then go catch the Afternoon striper bite!
Good Fishing!
Capt. Mack
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