Jeff Durniak, GA WRD Northeast Region Fisheries Supervisor
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WHERE (Increasing order of difficulty)
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WHEN
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HOW
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Delayed Harvest (DH) Waters – Smith Creek, Amicalola Creek, Chattooga River, Hooch in Atlanta
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Nov, Dec
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Big and ugly flies (ex: woolly bugger, peach egg), and lures (Crème, Bobblehead worms); fish them along the bottom in deep pools! Add a dropper.
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DH Waters
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Apr, May
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Big and ugly deep; match hatch on top; #10 yellow stimulator at dark
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Public access waters adjacent to stream sections with supplemental feeding (ex: fee fishing): Soque, Hooch, Dicks, Hiwassee, Nottely, Toccoa, Noontootla.
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Reasons to leave (voluntary/involuntary)1) After floods
2) During droughts 3) Spawning |
Think big bait, lures, or flies for big trout. Be legal – baits, access (must have written permission for private lands)
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Lake Lanier Tailwater (Hwy 20- Holcomb Bridge)
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Nov, Feb-Apr
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Trophy hunt: think big baits fished deep (nightcrawlers, Yozuri pin minnow, big streamers. Contact local guide services
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Blue Ridge Tailwater
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Year-round
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See Lanier tailwater. This has a developing quality brown trout fishery.
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Dukes and Waters creeks www.gon.com/article.php?id=635&cid=124
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1) High and Muddy (they can’t be too muddy) 2) LowandClear |
1) Big and ugly- #10 pink San Juan, #6- #10 buggers, white zonkers; all with a ton of lead a foot above the fly 2) Long & light leaders with tiny flies: #16 soft hackles, #18 pheasant tails, #20 WD-40 |
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Chattooga River – BB falls to NC line
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Nov, Mar-May
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Big baits (crayfish), lures (Rapala) and flies (buggers, stoneflies, muddlers) fished in heavy cover in slow water at dawn and dusk
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Lower Jones, Noontootla
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See Dukes and Waters
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Big (14 inch plus) resident browns, migrants from downstream waters
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Lake Burton (June 2008 GON article)
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1) November 2) Aug, Sept
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1) Big flies fished in deep pools of tributaries 2) Troll lures or drift bluebacks 40 feet deep near dam |