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Welcome to Fly Fishing West Georgia and Beyond. I hope there's plenty of info here to get you excited about some of the world's finest fly fishing. No, that's not hyperbole. West Georgia has some of best fishing anywhere - look around and see what I mean.
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Flog July 17 - On the Flint today with Carlton and Alex, we found the water up a foot or so and moderately stained. We headed up one of the feeder streams and found clear water - apparently the rains over the weekend had been way upstream on the river and were just hitting, but the feeders had already cleared. Some of the bigger bass had apparently moved up for the clear water as we found several, with Carlton getting the big fish.
July 8 - Coming back to town from a new direction last week, I passed a shallow flat off West Point Lake that I used to fish for carp. So today I had a free day and decided to see if the carp there still wanted to eat. `Turned out that a couple of the small ones did, but then I hooked up with this guy.
What a white bass was doing up in this water I have no idea, but he ate that RLD with no hesitations.
June 30 - We're in New Jersey on vacation. Yeah, I know......."why on earth go to NJ for vacation"??? Well, it's a family thing and we're at the eastern shore. And the inshore fishery is beautiful. First morning there I found the shad while hunting the stripes. They ate the 3/0 whistler.............
June 19 - The weather has heated, but the fishing is holding on. At Callaway, we're still doing good early and late in the day; midday gets pretty warm.
I love the Flint this time of year - wet-wading helps you stay cool all day. The water is low and clear and the fish are perhaps a bit smaller, but it's great fun fishing the smaller technical water. It can be different though - the tactics that worked when the water was high need to be adapted.
June 3 - `Had a Flint trip cancel today, but I was ready for the river - so I just went and fished by myself. Somebody missed a good one as it was great - shoalies, redbreasts, shellcrackers, plus a lonely bluegill. A few hit the stealth bomber, but most of `em came on a black RLD. The Rubber-Legged Dragon, aka the RLD, is a favorite of mine - it's caught a lot of different species including trout and carp. But until today, it had never caught one of these..............
May 31 - The FFF-SE fly fishing show has been happening at Callaway Gardens for the last 3 days, and boy did we have some fun. After the closing reception Saturday night, I asked our special guest, Steve Rajeff, if he was interested in a little fishing. In spite of a pre-6am scheduled departure tomorrow morning, his face lit up like a little kid, and in effect he echoed my favorite Flip Pallot line, "This is how I look when I'm ready.". We grabbed the driftboat and hit Robin Lake as the sun went down. Definitely a guide's dream - the best caster in the world in the front of the boat effortlessly firing bullets with my stealth bomber. Of course the phenomenal casting was no surprise
May 25 - The Flint just gets better and better as the water drops and clears. `Fished it today with Gary L from Kennesaw. First time for Gary, but he timed it right - got plenty of fish and the spider lily bloom too...
May 14 - Flint fishing is fine these days............
May 3 - Fished Callaway Gardens yesterday & today with the boys from NGTO - a lot of fun as always, though the fishing was a little tough. In spite of the fronts coming through, we found some topwater bream and some bass chasing damsel nymphs up in the weeds.
April 22 - `Got a busman's holiday today - decided, just for a change, just to go fishing. `Found a few of those striped fish........
April 21 - It's that time of year, and the fishing is turning on all over. The Flint is on between the rains, the Hooch stripes are moving upriver, and the big bream and bass are doing it on the Callaway Lakes. Rex and Joel spanked `em good today - below is Joel with a giant shellcracker.
April 19 - Kevin's wife had called me in December to get a Christmas gift for Kevin, a striper fishing gift certificate. She said he really wanted to catch something besides those small stocker trout on a fly rod. Today he got his wish on the Hooch above West Point. The first one busted him off on the hit as it almost yanked the rod from his hand. The second one popped him on a hard run across the current. The third one didn't....
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Above, canoeists and kayakers negotiate the shoals of the Flint River above Sprewell Bluff during Paddle Georgia 2008. I was on the river with a couple of anglers that day as the first paddler came through. He slowed and we talked a couple of minutes. He'd never been on the Flint before but said it was "the most beautiful river I've ever seen."
Many of you already know, but late last year I signed on as the new SE rep for Temple Fork Outfitters ( and a number of other fine tackle companies). I've been on the TFO guide program for several years and have become a huge fan of the company and its products - this was just too great an opportunity to pass up. But I'm still guiding on a regular basis, so give me a call and let's go fish.
The Bead-Sucking, Rubber-Legged Pheasant Tail Nymph....... it was hot one day recently at Callaway. Hmmm......what else could we put on here?
The Flint River Chapter of Trout Unlimited
`Got a very nice write-up of an 3/07 interview I did with John Gregg on the West Marine website. It's buried down in their huge site, but you can find it here.... The American Angler article (2006 Summer issue), "The Hidden Stripers of Summer" by friend and customer, Pete Elkins, features good info on hot-weather stripes and gives us good press too. You can read an excerpt here. The article has plenty of good info on catching summer stripes in Georgia.
"The Most Un-Appreciated Fly Cast"
43-pound Chattahoochee striper
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