“The Southern Fishing Report” By Ken Sturdivant

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March 5, 2009

LAKE LANIER IS DOWN 12 FEET, AND CREEKS ARE STAINED AND THE MAIN LAKE IS CLEAR AND 49 DEGREES.

Spotted bass fishing is good and the crank bait bite is good. Small crank baits like Shad Raps and Bandits all in the shad or blue back patterns are the best baits. Use 8 to 10 pound Sufix Elite line to get these baits deeper with the spinning rod and reel. Docks are fair but the points and humps at 25 feet are the magic areas and depths. These are not many fish up on the banks but that will change next week with the full moon and the warm weather. Spots are on points, around docks and natural creek ledges. Start the day with slow moving lures like jigs and weighted trick worms in dark colors. Skip or cast these bait into docks close to deep water and work baits right into the cover. Up lake in the rivers and up lake creeks, jig and pig in reds and black combos along with the Uncle Josh matching trailers worked on points and around docks will draw strikes for bass. It’s been better to fish these lures in the same location for a few casts and this can make the better fish strike the lures. Be sure to fish a jig now all the way into summer. Use 1/8 Bitsey Bug with a twin tail trailer as an all day bait. Zoom’s small pumpkinseed mini lizard on a Texas rig has been good for these bass in the same locations. The suspending Rouges in clown and shad patterns will start to work later in the day this week.

Striper fishing is good and lots of the fish have moved very shallow. Use free lined blue backs, lead head flukes and bucktail jigs. Be sure to cast shallow in less than 5 feet of water in the rear to the middle of most creeks. Stripers will move up shallow every day now as the water warms. You may start to see more boiling fish. Cast and pull flat lines and cast flukes or bucktails all day. Look in the mouth of main lake creeks to the back of any major creek lake wide. Today we saw several times some very big stripers roaming around in the major creek mouths out over 60+ feet of water. You can see these fish on the Lowrance.

Crappie are on almost any dock in any creek, you just need to shoot the dock and you will find them. The up lake fish are shallower and any tube or grub can work but use 1/32 ounce jig heads and 4 pound test line. REMINDER: Get you fishing license on line before heading to the lake.