Lake Oconee Fishing Report March 31, 2021
It has started! Mrs Daphne was the first to experience the power of these awesome line sides. You should too! By Lake Oconee Fishing Guide Doug Nelms
Lake Oconee Fishing Report March 24th 2021
Here we go! The long awaited Oconee Striper spawn is happening now!! Miss Margaret caught her personal “bestest” yesterday. She named him Ralph. Summer is here let’s get your group out there for a fun day fishing and catching. By Lake Oconee Fishing Guide Doug Nelms
Lake Oconee Fishing Report March 22nd 2021
It’s going off on Lake Oconee. The bass, the Stripers the Crappie, everything is hungry, mad or thinking about romance. Yesterday my client Randy Lewis and his party put 42 Stripers in the boat. Huge day, huge fun. By Lake Oconee Fishing Guide Doug Nelms
Lake Oconee Fishing Report March 17th 2021
March is when the big bass go to spawn on Lake Oconee. The water has hit that magical number of 63 degrees and romance is on their minds. Some of the biggest largemouth I have seen have come out of Oconee’s turbid water in the past 2 years, and this year is promising to be…
Lake Oconee Fishing Report March 15 2021
This has been the crappie season that I haven’t seen in many years. We have had a slew of big fish over 2 pounds and with the full moon coming up at the end of the month, the big bite should continue. This is it for a little while, but the Oconee Stripers are ramping…
Lake Oconee Fishing Report March 5 2021
If you wanna know how good the crappie are on Lake Oconee we are catching a limit of big fish on just about every trip. In our annual Derby, 9 crappie over 2 pounds have come to the scales over the past 13 days and the spawn has t even started. The next 2 weeks…
Lake Oconee fishing report March 2nd 2021
Guests staying at the Ritz Carlton had a pretty good day got a bunch of fish didn’t take very long. By Lake Oconee Fishing Guide Doug Nelms
Lake Oconee fishing report March 1st 2021
It’s limits every trip right now and they are big ones! The calm before the spawn has started and we are seeing Lake Oconee 2 pound crappie come to the scales just about every day. Right now I am pushing for the big fish, but pulling (trolling) is working too. So hope to get you…
Lake Oconee fishing report February 10th 2021
The big crappie have showed up and we have some two pounders starting to come to the scales. This is the time of years when all of our crappie become super-sized as they are looking for a place to begin their spawn. We are pushing our long rods over creek channels and flats and tipped…
Lake Oconee Fishing Report February 1 2021
The Striper fishing is just plain good right now. This cold cloudy weather that we have has fired them up and we are filling up our fish boxes on most every trip. The sizes are ranging from 3-8 pounds with the exception of some much larger. It should only get better from here. Our crappie…