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Lake Oconee, Madison Georgia
Capt. Doug Nelms
February 19, 2007
Lake Oconee - Freshwater Fishing Report
February 19, 2007
Water Temp 45
The fishing has really picked up over the past few days and those trophy-sized crappie are beginning to make a show. Most of you know that my bread and butter is hybrid bass fishing, but oh how I love to catch them big crappie. I am not talking about the little pound to pound and a half “dinks” as we call them, but those huge 2 plus pound “broke neckers”.
February and March are the best times to catch these huge fish on Oconee and over the past few days they have started showing up around their familiar spots such as the Apalachee, Town Creek, and I even heard a report about Richland Creek. It should improve day after day until we get to the full moon of March, and then we will see the decline in the large ones and the smaller, average, crappie will become predominant. We are using the spider-rig technique and the colors that they seem to like are blue and black.
Funny thing about catching these fish is that a lot of anglers think because it is crappie fishing that you can go out and just knock out a limit in just a few hours. Normally these big fish take a lot of time and you really never know when they are going to eat. Unlike hybes that are your resident feeding machines, which should be very plentiful in just a few weeks.
According to my trusty fishing logs the hybes showed up at the dam last year in early March. Many people have asked me why they showed up so early, but I never thought to ask one when I caught him. Minnows will be the ticket in the early part of the hybrid migration to the dam; flat-lined, down-lined and fished on the bottom, you never know what they will want.
Great fishing is just days away! Make sure you got all your gear in order. This promises to be a great year!
Tight Lines
Doug Nelms
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