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    Keys To Catching Lake Lanier Bass: From the Series Keys To Catching Georgia Bass
    Keys To Catching Lake Lanier Bass: From the Series Keys To Catching Georgia Bass
    Keys To Catching Lake Lanier Bass: From the Series Keys To Catching Georgia Bass
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    Keys To Catching Lake Lanier Bass: From the Series Keys To Catching Georgia Bass

    By Ronnie Garrison

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    Ten spots for each month of the year, with GPS Coordinates, description, lures to use and how to fish each one.on Lake Lanier.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 1, 2014
    ISBN9781940263014
    Keys To Catching Lake Lanier Bass: From the Series Keys To Catching Georgia Bass

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      Keys To Catching Lake Lanier Bass - Ronnie Garrison

      ISBN: 978-1-940263-01-4

      Ryan Coleman with Lake Lanier spotted bass

      See Ryan’s methods and places to fish in Chapters 1 and 2.

      From Georgia Outdoor News Map of the Month series of articles and the series Keys to Catching Georgia Bass

      2014 © Ronnie Garrison – All Rights Reserved

      Maps - 2014 © Georgia Outdoor News – All Rights Reserved

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      How to Use This Book

      About Ronnie Garrison

      More Fishing Resources

      Chapter 1 – January

      Chapter 2 – February

      Chapter 3 – March

      Chapter 4 – April

      Chapter 5 – May

      Chapter 6 – June

      Chapter 7 – July

      Chapter 8 – August

      Chapter 9 – September

      Chapter 10 – October

      Chapter 11 – November

      Chapter 12 – December

      About the cover:

      Laura Gober landed this five pound spotted bass in a Lanier tournament while fishing with husband Trent Gober. See her tips and places to fish in Chapter 5.

      How to Use This Book

      The articles for this series of books, Keys to Catching Georgia Bass, were written over a span of 18 years. Conditions change but bass tend to follow patterns year after year.

      For example, Lake Lanier has gone through a series of years with low water then full again. Landmarks you can see when the water is very low cannot be spotted when the lake is full. But humps, points and rock piles are still there, in the same place, just underwater.

      Some years the water is clear and some years stained to muddy during the same months in some creeks, but the main lake is almost always clear. The patterns and places in these articles will still work in the creeks, but you may need to adjust the color of the bait to the conditions.

      New baits and tackle companies come along every year but you can always find old favorite baits or similar baits from a new company that were produced by a defunct company, or use the new ones that are similar in action.

      The GPS Coordinates given for each spot will get you very close to what you want to fish. An old brush pile on the coordinates may be gone, but you can bet another one will be in the same place or very nearby.

      Some spots are on more than one map for more than one month. That guarantees it is a good spot, if more than one good fisherman chose it! Some spots are good year round, over many month.

      Some of the expert fishermen providing information for the articles in this book are not named for a variety of reasons.

      About Ronnie Garrison

      Ronnie Garrison is an award-winning magazine and newspaper writer and the author of The Everything Fishing Book. He tries to fish almost every day and has been a bass club tournament fisherman for 40 years.

      Experience:

      Since 1986 Ronnie Garrison has written a weekly outdoor column for the Griffin Daily News. His first feature magazine article appeared in 1987 and he has over 500 articles published in Georgia Outdoor News, Alabama Outdoor News, Georgia Sportsman, Kitchen Drawer, Bassin Times, Bass Champions and Sporting Clays magazines and wrote The Everything Fishing Book published by Adams Media and the eBook Keys To Catching Clarks Hill Bass.

      Those articles have won more than 30 Excellence in Craft awards from the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association. He is a member and past president of that organization and a member of Southeast Outdoor Press Association and Profession Outdoor Media Association.

      From Ronnie Garrison:

      I never met a fish I didn’t want to catch. Some of my first memories are of following my grandmother to local creeks and ponds and fishing with a cane pole and live bait for anything that would bite. That was over 55 years ago, so I have been fishing for a while....

      In 1974 I joined a bass club and am still in it, fishing tournaments every month in that club and the second club I joined in 1978. I love club bass tournaments and don’t miss any. But I also love catching any kind of fish, from bluegill in my pond to halibut in Alaska. I have had the chance to catch fish in many places in my life. One of my favorite memories is standing in a stream in Alaska catching salmon on a fly rod on my 60th birthday.

      More Fishing Resources

      Keys to Fishing Georgia Lakes Series: http://keys-to-catching-georgia-bass-ebook-series – watch for new books on different Georgia lakes

      Ronnie Garrison’s Web Site: http://fishing-about.com

      Basschaser App: Check out this app for your Iphone, Ipad, Droid and Windows based phones and devices. – Ever wonder what baits to choose, where and how to fish them based on the conditions that day? Basschaser will help you by giving you three options based on season, sky conditions, water temperature, water clarity and wind. Each option suggest a bait to use, color and size, and where and how to fish it. There is also a tip for the day based on those conditions and bait choices. Go to http://keys-to-catching-georgia-bass-ebook-series for more information and how to download it

      Jimmy Harmon with October Lake Lanier Bass. See how and where he catches bass in Chapter 10.

      January Bass at Lake Lanier

      with Ryan Coleman

      Hype on the news a few years ago about Lake Lanier drying up was greatly exaggerated. The lake was down about 20 feet and had shrunk from 38,000 acres to about 30,000 acres, but there was water over 100 feet deep in lots of places. The bad news for fishermen was there were few ramps open and it was hard to find a place to launch a boat. The good news is there is plenty of water to fish, the lake is not crowded and the spots are hungry.

      The Corps of Engineers is currently working with local guides and businesses to extend ramps so they are usable. Local people that want the lake open are coming up with funds to pay for concrete and the Corps is furnishing equipment and man-power. Access to the lake should be improving.

      The lack of rain through mid-December had made the water very clear at Lanier. It had also affected the normal patterns of the bass on the lake. Most winters the best way to catch spots is to fish very deep for them but they seemed to be much more shallow that winter.

      Ryan Coleman lives near Lanier and guides there as well as fishing tournaments on the lake. He is on the water there about 275 days a year so he keeps up with the bass, especially the big spots, on a daily basis. Specializing in spots has taught Ryan many tricks to catch big ones consistently.

      Ryan fishes both BASS and FLW tournaments on Lanier and won the BASS Southern Tour event there in the fall of 2006. He fishes the Boating Atlanta tournaments on the lake and has won five of them, including their Classic. On December 2 when this was written he won the Boating Atlanta tournament with five spots weighing 19.47 pounds.

      Ryan’s best tournament catch from Lanier was five spots weighing 23 pounds, 5 ounces. His best spot from Lanier was a 7 pound, 2 ounce monster caught the first week of February a few years ago and his best largemouth is a 10 pound, 4 ounce hog caught last January. It is no wonder Ryan says winter is his favorite time of year to fish Lanier.

      In mid-December Ryan took me out on Lanier to talk about the changes in the lake and to catch some fish. We put in at Shoal Creek and fished from there to Brown’s Bridge. Most of the times I looked at the depth finder while we were running it showed water 90 to 100 feet deep.

      We had what Ryan called a slow day, putting over 20 spots and one striper in the boat. The biggest spot was over four pounds and two more were better than three pounds each. Ryan’s best five would have weighed about 15 pounds.

      The normal pattern Ryan fishes in the winter is jigging spoons, drop shot rigs and skirted jigs in deep water. But this year Ryan says the pattern is different and he expects it to stay different as long as the water is low. The bass are not going into the creeks as far as usual and they are not as deep as usual, either.

      Bass at Lanier relate to the surface, not the bottom of the lake. When Ryan says bass are 20 feet deep he means they are 20 feet below the surface. They might be in tree tops at that depth with 50 feet of water under them. Trees and brush are the keys to catching Lanier spots.

      With the lake 20 feet low many trees come near the surface and Ryan says the whole lake fishes like one huge brush pile. He is catching fish over these trees in the creeks and on the main lake. A good depth finder is critical to finding the

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