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Low fishing is graded good to excellent. Bass is captured over a variety of techniques and depth ranges.
We caught bass last week in water from less than five feet deep to up to 60 feet deep.
Anglers need to fish their strengths and then make changes as the bite takes.
Start your days shallow in the bowels of major ditches.
The best ditches are found anywhere from the main lake to the backs of streams and rivers.
The most productive ditches usually have moving water where these depressions enter the lake.
When water enters the lake, it often contains plankton and other microscopic foods that the fish eat.
These microorganisms provide food for bait fish.
Baitfish feed on bass and other predatory fish.
Bass will usually be very active at dawn and they are usually ready to chase away moving lures.
Our best producers have been the SPRO jerk and crank baits, Georgia Blade Underspins or Lanier Baits Damiki Rigs rigged with small swimbaits, like a Lanier Baits Little Dipper or Big Bite Baits Suicide Shads.
Experiment with different recovery speeds and try giving sharp jerks and pauses to get the bass to bite.
On a clear day, this morning activity will usually come and go within the first hour.
In cloudy weather, this period of activity can often continue until late in the morning.
Keep throwing moving lures until the fish tells you to change.
As the sun rises higher in the sky, we had to make some adjustments.
The bass often travels to the first significant drop at 20-40 feet and either suspended or near the bottom.
They will wait for any feeding opportunities that arise.
Pay close attention to where you mark baitfish and bass and fish at these depths for your best success.
In addition to a castable lure, like a SPRO McStick 110, always keep a bait like a Georgia Blade Shepoon or Lanier Baits Fruity Worm on a dropshot rig.
Immediately go for any fish that you see schooling on the surface or any fish that appear on your chart.
Anglers who are prepared can often catch several more fish per day that unprepared fishermen miss.
The Spotted and Largemouth population of Lake Lanier will experience several different periods of activity throughout the day.
These periods of activity can occur due to times of water production, solar and lunar phases, and weather fronts.
Anglers who are aware of these times can use this knowledge to change technique and catch more fish.
Night fishing with a SPRO DD Crankbait or Georgia Blade Premium Night Spinnerbait will work well to coax bites from larger than average night feeders.
Target the rocky shores of the main lake at the mouths of the streams.
Striper the fishing is very good.
The Lac Lanier striped bass population appears to be in good health.
We are starting to see a lot more fish over 20 pounds than in the past few years.
This is a good sign and hopefully great news for years to come.
Striped stripes feed on a variety of forage and their primary food source appears to be a combination of herring, gizzard, and thread-fin shad.
Where possible, fishermen should keep track of what stripers eat in areas where we fish.
The markers that are marked on the herring will tend to move more than the markers that are marked on the shad.
As with bass, stripers are also caught on a variety of artificial lures and live baits.
Trolling rigs have been a very productive method of not only finding, but also catching strippers.
Trolling allows anglers to cover the water and find out what the fish are doing and where they congregate.
Drag your rigs to 1 1/2 to 3 mph and let the fish tell you which speed is most productive for that particular day.
If you have already located any tracers a few days ago, be sure to check this area again.
The markers that hook onto the smaller fin shad may still be there because the fins do not move as much as the herring.
Whether you’re trolling to locate fish or just have a few good areas that have held fish in the past, make sure you have plenty of live bait.
Even though the plotters are set on smaller threaded shad, it seems they always preferred store-bought or sunken blueback herring.
Fish your live bait tenders on a combination of flatlines, weighted lines or lines executed on planning boards.
Pay attention to the setups that get the most bites and go to the most productive depths.
Pay attention to where you mark the fish and place your baits just slightly above the fish you are marking.
Stripers usually move to attack, but they rarely chase bait any deeper.
You can pull as little as one rig on a single rod, but anglers who are proficient at trolling often troll up to 4-6 rigs at a time.
To do this, fishermen will also need to use planning tables.
Planning panels allow anglers to fish a wider swath and cover more water.
We also did run-and-gun striper fishing with artificial lures.
Because the birds have arrived, anglers have one of nature’s best fish finders – seagulls.
Make sure you have two rods rigged for long casts.
Rig a cane with a spoon and another with a Bucktail SPRO.
We just made sure to feed the gulls and loons. When we meet them, we troll down to where the birds dive and do long throws into the melee.
After dark, the tracers are still tied to the dock fires in the streams.
You can throw SPRO McSticks or Bomber Long A on these lights.
Some fishermen take live herring on an unweighted line and train them in front of the lights.
shit the fishing is very good.
Fish bite at different depths, depending on which part of the lake you are targeting.
Uplake in the Rivers Anglers marked some good crappie limits by fishing the docks with brush in the stained water.
Crappie in this stained water will tend to be much shallower than those downstream of the lake in clearer water.
Fish small crappie jigs and minnows on weighted lines.
Target the docks in the stained water with a brush planted to a depth of 10 to 20 feet.
Crappie will be much deeper around docks which have clearer water at 25-50 feet deep.
You can email Eric Aldrich at [email protected] with comments or questions.
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