New member: Hey everyone my name is Greg most of my friends know me as Gator. Born and raised in south Florida. Now retired in the n.e. Ga. Mountains. I'm not use to a lake with out...

Gator66 Loc: Hiawassee,Ga.

Hey everyone my name is Greg most of my friends know me as Gator. Born and raised in south Florida. Now retired in the n.e. Ga. Mountains.
I'm not use to a lake with out any form of natural cover suck as lilly pads and so forth. I have thrown everything I own and with out much success.
And Special perch A.K.A. Crappie
H
What do they bite up here!!

Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake

Gator66 wrote:

Hey everyone my name is Greg most of my friends know me as Gator. Born and raised in south Florida. Now retired in the n.e. Ga. Mountains.
I'm not use to a lake with out any form of natural cover suck as lilly pads and so forth. I have thrown everything I own and with out much success.
And Special perch A.K.A. Crappie
H
What do they bite up here!!

Gator, I'm not familiar with north GA. but very experienced with lakes with no weed. Crappie in these type lakes will gravitate toward any structure you can find. Blow down trees that reach out into deeper water, brush piles and docks are a very good place to start. I'd set up a slip float rig, you tube, and fish a live minnow in and around all these type structures. Remember Crappie feed up, meaning you can fish to deep for them but early to shallow. Crappie will almost always look up and move up to feed. When I didn't have a depth finder I'd keep moving the slip float up and down on every piece of structure I saw until I located the right depth. Once you find that depth stick to it and move around the lake repeating what you've found. Crappie are also low light feeders, they will find some sort of shade and early be out in a sunny area. That shade may be a dock or a limb but there will be shade close to Crappie. Hope this helps some, good luck with the Specks.

Hartwa Loc: Reedsport Oregon

Welcome Greg.

Gator66 Loc: Hiawassee,Ga.

Thanks for the info I'm going to try a few spots today. Hopefully some pics to follow.

Scudrnr Loc: Hancock, Wisconsin

Gator66 wrote:

Hey everyone my name is Greg most of my friends know me as Gator. Born and raised in south Florida. Now retired in the n.e. Ga. Mountains.
I'm not use to a lake with out any form of natural cover suck as lilly pads and so forth. I have thrown everything I own and with out much success.
And Special perch A.K.A. Crappie
H
What do they bite up here!!

Welcome to the forum Gator

Viking70 Loc: South Georgia

Hey Gator, welcome to the forum. I don't have anything to offer; I think Ivey covered it very well. I live right down the road near Helen. Give me a holler sometime. We had crappie last night but I caught them in a farm pond (limited out in under 2 hours) in Moultrie, GA.

Gator66 Loc: Hiawassee,Ga.

Hi Viking 70, nice to meet you.
I haven't caught a of them since
I left Florida. I would say the biggest reason is there are not
many easy ecsesable bank fishing
areas.

Ivey Loc: South Central Tennessee, Tim's Ford Lake

Gator66 wrote:

Hi Viking 70, nice to meet you.
I haven't caught a of them since
I left Florida. I would say the biggest reason is there are not
many easy ecsesable bank fishing
areas.

If your lake has any bridges, search them out. The shade from the bridge and rip rap rocks can be a great place to start looking.

Viking70 Loc: South Georgia

Yeah, most of the lakes up here are basically private property. There's some but not much.

Ozzie Loc: Central Florida

Gater and Viking.....just bought a cabin in Blue Ridge.....will be up there a week or so mid April looking for some trout.....then all summer and fishing for whatever I can get.......no boat so gotta do some looking around......hope to see you guys around and exchange some info.....

Viking70 Loc: South Georgia

Super! We had a home in Blue Ridge (actually Morganton) and loved it. Give me a shout out when you land. Putting you on the buddy list.

Gator66 Loc: Hiawassee,Ga.

Nice to meet you Ozzie. Never fished in Blue Ridge personally but have heard there are alot of great areas for all types.

Ozzie Loc: Central Florida

Only fished the Toccoa on a drift boat once.....now as a part time resident I mean to get serious.....will be driving up 15th April.....maybe we can get together at a place close to all? I am 6 miles N of Blue Ridge off of Rt 5 near Epworth.....about 28 miles to Blair's Ville....
Ron

Gator66 Loc: Hiawassee,Ga.

Definitely have to keep in touch.

Viking70 Loc: South Georgia

I'm just outside of Helen, in Sautee Nacoochee, GA. It would be nice to meet up.