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Carters Lake Fishing Guide

Welch’s Guide Service Had a blast Guiding the Clark Family Tuesday morning on Lake Chickamauga, We started out fishing the edges of some flats and then started working our way around some ledges, catching Largemouth bass and some Spotted bass. We did catch a few on topwater when they started breaking but most of our …

Carters Lake Fishing Guide

We’ve been getting so much rain the past couple weeks, The lakes are full and there was plenty of boat traffic over July 4th. We’ve been hammered with trips, Lake Blue ridge fishing is starting to get back to normal, we’ve been catching Spotted bass and Largemouth bass on shaky head, dropshot and texas rig. I’ve …

Carters Lake Fishing Guide

Chickamauga Bass have moved out on the ledges and the numbers are there,  On a 8hr trip we’ve been catching 50 t0 60 bass per trip. average size has been 2lb to 4lb with a couple of kicker 5 to 6lb or bigger. The Largemouth bass are feeding and busting topwater at first light. But …

Lake Chickamauga Fishing Guide

It’s been a crazy two weeks, it started out I sold my Bullet boat, knowing I had plenty of guide trips on the calendar. I left out at 3:30am on Tuesday May 9th heading for a 6 hour drive to Wieda’s Marine in Kentucky to pick up my new 2017 Phoenix 921 PHX. I’m so …

Carters Lake Fishing Guide

What a crazy spring we’ve had in the North Georgia mountains, a lot of rain, high winds, not to mention all the temp changes. I don’t think I’ve been on the North Georgia Lakes this year 3 days straight that the weather has been the same. The last couple of weeks I’ve been on Lake …

Lake Chickamauga Fishing Guide

I would like to thank Home Depot’s’ corporate office for choosing our services for their team building on Lake Blue Ridge.  We took out 3 boatloads the other afternoon and everyone was catching fish, almost all our fish were Spotted bass, we also caught a couple Walleye.  We was using tubes and topwater baits to catch our …

Lake Chickamauga Fishing Guide

Fishing has been good on Lake Burton, The water temp is around 65 to 68 degrees and the Largemouth bass are starting to spawn. We have been catching most of them out in front of docks waiting to pull up and spawn. We’ve been targeting them with jigs, swimbaits and spinnerbaits.  The Spotted bass are spawning and …

Lake Chickamauga Fishing Guide

We’ve been having some awesome trips on Blue Ridge Lake, from beginners to avid anglers. The Spotted bass are spawning all over the lake, with some Smallmouth bass mixed in. Also on sunny days you will see the blueback herring running the banks trying to spawn. This has brought the Walleye up shallow, I’ve caught more …

Lake Chickamauga Fishing Guide

I’ve been on Lake Chickamauga the past week battling the wind, although the cold front from a couple weeks ago really didn’t change the bass too much. You can still find them around the areas they’ve been hanging around the last couple weeks they’ve just moved back out a little. When weather fronts come through …

Lake Chickamauga Fishing Guide

We made our annual trip to Dale Hollow lake last week, for some Smallmouth action. Dale Hollow holds the world record Smallmouth that weighed 11lb 15oz caught by David L Hayes in 1955. If you ever plan on going there to fish, give Horse Creek Marina a call, great place to stay. We got there …

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