The 2024 Blue Ridge Trout and Outdoor Adventures Festival is April 27, 2024 from 10:00 am until 6:00 pm. Southern Fishing Schools will host fishing Seminars. For more information contact Bob Borgtwat, 706 838 5259 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We have open dates for our On the Water SONAR SCHOOL. Bring the boat. Call 770 889 2654. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

APRIL 21, 2024

LAKE ALLATOONA IS FULL, 60’S

Bass fishing is good. This is full moon week. These bass are up and chasing lures more and more as the water warms. The water is stained from Victoria up towards the Little River area due to the recent rains. Most of the areas south of that range from stained to fairly clear near the dam. There is a strong jerk bait and swim bait bite on the main lake for those fish that are in pre spring pattern. Concentrate on the main lake points in the clearer waters. Use a Staysee 90 and a large swim bait. Spro has a Little John Type R shallow running crankbait that works well over shallow water submerging vegetation. It has a computer chips style lip for a fast wobble and several great colors. For the stained water in the upper reaches of the lake use the Flat CB DR Lucky Craft crank bait in Tennessee Shad color. This color is a whitish color with a black back that will match the forage color in muddy water. Baitfish tend to turn a whitish color in the muddier waters so white baits are my color of choice. Start by paralleling the bluff walls and hit any kind of wood structure with the crank baits. The fish will be get shallow daily and be very active and start their pre spawn ritual by staging on main lake points. Any kind of shad bait will work well here. Jerk baits like a Pointer 78, Flashminnow 95MR are best. Use the big swim baits like the Hampton Shad in 6 and 8 inch sizes as well as the big Triple Trout’s in the 10 inch range are also great gizzard shad imitators.

The Spring West Marine fishing class are held at 5221 Lake Lanier islands Pky. Buford Georgia, 30518 470 202 1052 Ken Sturdivant, Southern Fishing Schools will host FREE! Fishing classes this spring. All Classes start at 6pm. April 23, 2024, SONAR, Ken Sturdivant, May 14, 2024 Kayaks, Dean Bowling, May 28, 2024 Bass Fishing, Tournament Angler Carl Hunter. (Topics, times and speakers are subject to change without notice.)

We offer these Bass Fishing Waypoints for sale on Lake Allatoona, Lake Clarks Hill, Lake Eufaula, Lake Hartwell, Lake Jackson, Lake Lanier, Lake Oconee, Lake Russell, Lake Seminole, Lake Sinclair, Lake Weiss and West Point Lake. WAYPOINTS ARE $99.00 CHECK OR MONEY ORDERS 0NLY. NO ON LINE PAY! Waypoints are NOT REFUNDABLE. Anglers need to know how to load these into the electronics. Receive the coordinates and then load them into the GPS unit. For a sample send me an e mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We have a FREE! Sonar Set Up Sheet (Please tell me what model machines are on the boat), a FREE! all about CHIRP article, a FREE! How to Find STRIPERS year round, a FREE! 2024 Best Days for Fishing from Bass Master Magazine, a FREE! Tackle Box List for Bass fishing Striper fishing and Crappie fishing, a FREE! Guide for Crappie Year. Just send an e mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Our On the Water SONAR School is designed to teach anglers how to read all the latest technology. We train on all brands. All these machines all offer Sonar CHIRP Side Scan and Down Scan Technology. Lawrence has the Patented FISH REVEAL technology. Bring the boat and any machine we teach all brands! We have Lowrance PRO12 with C Map and the Active Target 2 LIVE Sonar on the training boat. We started these schools to help anglers how to find and catch more fish. We go over how to rig the transducers and tune the depth finders. We use the Lawrence units but we teach all brands. There are schools of fish in all lakes that are never fished for. Most bass anglers cast to the banks. There are many schools of fish on off shore structure that the typical angler never knows are there. Learn about the latest mapping technologies. How to properly mount and maintain transducers. Spend the day using the latest electronics. On Lake Lanier we find the road beds, humps, standing timber, and brush piles where the fish live. See sunk boats! The school is eight hours exclusively on Lake Lanier. To catch fish all year the latest technology takes all the guess work out of where they live. All the details for our On the Water SONAR School is on our web site on the Schools page. Call after 5pm 770 889 2654

Contact WSB TV to have them put the daily Fish and Game Forecaster back on their news daily: tookThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 404 897 7000

On our home page is the Fish and Game Forecaster. This will disclose when the peaks of feeding periods will occur for Fish and Game to increase your odds for successful day outdoors. Buy the book 2024 book and the full year plus into January of 2025. This Game and Fish Forecaster is not available in stores.