Lake Lanier/Lake Hartwell w/o 11/3/2014

LANIER HARTWELL 033   LANIER HARTWELL 030LANIER HARTWELL 024  LANIER HARTWELL 028  LANIER HARTWELL 026LANIER HARTWELL 019    LANIER HARTWELL 022    LANIER HARTWELL 018LANIER HARTWELL 014LANIER HARTWELL 015LANIER HARTWELL 016     LANIER HARTWELL 013 LANIER HARTWELL 012LANIER HARTWELL 007   LANIER HARTWELL 009 LANIER HARTWELL 008   LANIER HARTWELL 005  LANIER HARTWELL 003         I just returned last night from fishing Lake Lanier and Lake Hartwell for 3 days  with long time friend Tim White.  Monday we had 29 degrees and thick fog when we got to the lake. The hand rails-walk ways and docks were ice covered and the fog didn’t lift for 2 1/2 hours. The other two days it began to warm up but we battled the cold front mile high blue bird sky’s except for a couple hours  Wednesday. Over the 3 days we caught and released 47 Spots and Largemouth. (all about like what you see above)  We didn’t have any “Big” fish with our largest Spot weighing 3lbs 6oz  and found out very quickly atleast for us that they WOULD NOT hit a swim bait-crank bait-spinner bait-jerk bait-grubs- soft plastic minnow type baits-spoons-blade bait- tail spinners or Umbrella Rigs. We had a brief top water bite Monday using Rapala Skitter Walks and a Rapala X Rap Prop www.rapala.com  but after that everything had to be slow and easy.  So we slowed down and used baits like  the 1/4oz Green Pumpkin Terminator Jig–  3/16th VMC Standup Jig  Heads rigged with a  3 1/2 inch Green Pumpkin Trigger X Hodad .  All in all I had another great time fishing with Tim and water that I don’t get to be on very often.  Hopefully I will do this again in the Spring-I’m still looking for that 6lb Lanier Spot.  Rick McFerrin www.tennesseebassguides.com