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Lake Oconee, Madison Georgia
Capt. Doug Nelms
May 27, 2005
Lake Oconee - Freshwater Fishing Report
Water is 78 at Flagpole Point
I am leaving in just 2 weeks to go on my annual Boca Grande Tarpon Fishing vacation and the truth is I almost hate to go.
I cannot say enough about the hybrid fishing on Lake Oconee right now. What started off as a horrible year, with rain, wind and bad weather, has turned into the wildest hybrid fishing that I can remember.
I tell my customers that a good half day of fishing (4 hours) is boating 10 hybes with 20 coming on a full day. I may have to up the numbers. We have been catching 30 to sometimes 50 in a half day. I have never worked so hard in my life.
Also the hybes have put on quite a spectacle with their topwater action. On several places I fish I have seen gizzard shad “fly” out of the water like mullet, running from hungry hybes. Some of these shad weigh over a pound!
So if you want to fill your cooler full you need to net the biggest gizzards you can find and put them in front of the fish. Actually you may have to hid to bait the hook. No shad is too big; Im serious! I am fishing with bait that you cannot reach around with your hand and some of them are 12 to 14 inches long. I get a kick out of my customers when they look down in the live well and say, “Gees, those are the size of fish I normally catch!”
Once again, no shad is too big. Flat line them over the humps at Flagpole, the pipeline, and up Richland Creek.
They are also killing the top water plugs. This week, on a particular trip, I didn’t put a bait in the water and we boated 20 fish, just on plugs, the smallest weighing in at 5 pounds and several topping the boga at 8.
I have a few days left before I go to rest on vacation, but we are hitting it hard right now. I do have a few available spots left around the holiday weekend and just after, so let me know if you want to go.
Tight Lines
Doug Nelms
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