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    Keys To Catching Clarks Hill Bass
    Keys To Catching Clarks Hill Bass
    Keys To Catching Clarks Hill Bass
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    Keys To Catching Clarks Hill Bass

    By Ronnie Garrison

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    Each book will take a Georgia lake and give ten spots to fish each month of the year. The text will have GPS coordinates and a description of the spot and how to fish it, with a lake map showing the ten spots.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 1, 2013
    ISBN9781940263007
    Keys To Catching Clarks Hill Bass

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      Keys To Catching Clarks Hill Bass - Ronnie Garrison

      Keys to Catching Clarks Hill Bass

      Ten spots for each month of the year, with GPS Coordinates, descriptions, lures to use and how to fish each one

      By: Ronnie Garrison

      ISBN: 978-1-940263-00-7

      Gene Gensen with Clarks Hill Bass

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

      2013 © Ronnie Garrison – All Rights Reserved

      Maps - 2013 © Georgia Outdoor News – All Rights Reserved

      Introduction

      The books in the series Keys to Catching Georgia Bass are each about one lake in Georgia. Each one contains twelve chapters, one for each month of the year. For each month there will be a map of the lake with ten bass fishing spots on it, GPS coordinates for each and a description of how to fish it and what to use.

      There is also an introductory section with a little information about the fisherman that gave the ten spots and how to fish them. The fishermen include area guides, professional bass fishermen from the area and local fishermen that fish the lake often. Their lure and fishing methods tips will help you catch bass any month of the year.

      You can read the books on your computer, eBook reader and smart phone. You can also print out the whole book or a chapter to take with you on a fishing trip.

      Tony Green with Clarks Hill Keeper

      Note: The Federal Government officially changed the name from Clarks Hill Lake to Thurmond Lake but almost all fishermen still call it by its old name.

      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:

      Ronnie Garrison caught this nice bass on a beautiful June day.

      How to Use This Book

      The articles for this series of books, Keys to Catching Georgia Bass, were written over a span of 15 years. Conditions change but bass tend to follow patterns year after year.

      For example, Clarks Hill has gone through a series of years with low water then full again. After a couple of years of low water, grass and bushes grow that will be flooded in shallow water when the lake fills. But after a few years, that cover rots away. Bass will still be in the same areas, you just have to fish the cover in them that is available when you fish.

      Some years the water is clear and some years stained to muddy during the same months. The patterns and places in these articles will still work, 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 be sure another one will be in the same place or very nearby.

      Some spots are on more than one map for more than one month. You can bet that is a good spot, if more than one good fisherman chose it! Some spots are good year round, over many months.

      Some of the expert fishermen providing information for the articles in this book are not named for a variety of reasons. And some of the named fishermen may have changed sponsors or moved, but the information presented was accurate when the article was written.

      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 39 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.

      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.

      But bass are still my favorite!

      More Fishing Resources

      Keys to Fishing Georgia Lakes Series: http://keys-to-catching-georgia-bass-ebook-series – watch for new books on additional 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 suggests 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://fishing-about.com/keys-to-catching-georgia-bass-ebook-series/ for more information and how to download it.

      Chris Rodwell with July Clarks Hill Bass

      Chapter 1 – January

      Getting in a ditch in the winter doesn't sound like too much fun, but if you are fishing Clarks Hill it is where you want to be. Bass stack up in ditches this time of year and you can have some amazing catches for such cold water. This pattern has been producing outstanding January catches of bass at Clarks Hill for years.

      Bobby Smith moved to the Augusta area in 1988 and is lead pastor of Journey Community Church in Evans. After several years in business he went back to college to go into the ministry. He has always liked fishing and about two years ago got serious about bass fishing and tournament fishing.

      As a member of the Augusta Bassmasters, Bobby met and got to be friends with many local bass fishermen, including the owners of Buckeye Lures. They helped him out learning about competitive fishing and the secrets of Clarks Hill. He also learned how to use Buckeye baits which were designed near Clarks Hill and are some of the best baits to use on the lake.

      In January a few years ago Bobby got his best tournament limit of bass, catching just over 18 pounds on a jig and pig. His biggest Clarks Hill bass is a nine-pound four-ounce hawg. He tries to fish the lake at least two days a week and fishes most Wednesday night tournaments there, and has won several of them.

      Bobby took me to some of his best spots for January and the bass were schooling on top in the mornings in several of them. This time of year he expects the bass to be in ditches following baitfish. One of his keys to finding a good spot in January is to find baitfish on the surface or by spotting them on his depthfinder.

      Ditches can be small creeks, run-off ditches and gullies that form small coves and pockets with a defined channel in them. The defined channel is key to catching bass now and ditches with a channel are far better than a cove without one. Hydrilla is found in most shallow water at Clarks Hill now and it offers good cover for the bass, too.

      A variety of baits will catch bass now and Bobby always has several rigged. A Fluke is always a good bet in the mornings and Bobby will throw it all day if the fish stay active. A Buckeye Mop jig is a key tool when the bass stop feeding near the surface and

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