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Here Are Some Winter Fishing Tips and Tricks from the Georgia DNR to Make Casting Enjoyable & Fun from Dry Flies January 11-18, 2019 The Mid-South Tribune Page 3 Sports www.blackinformationhighway.com Here are some winter fishing tips and tricks from the Georgia DNR to make casting enjoyable & fun from dry flies. For stream fish try Shallow, muddy water can also The Georgia DNR using small midge and nymph be a reservoir hotspot as the and flies behind split shot weights. water warms and attracts baitfish. The FishingWire.com Drop them behind strike indica - In streams, look for the deepest tors so you can tell when you get and slowest pools that provide Whether you’re fishing for large - a strike. On lakes and rivers, use slow-moving trout and bass a mouth bass on Ocmulgee WMA lures that resemble crayfish or refuge from floods and predators. or brown trout in the Chatta - small baitfish such as minnows Fishing is a fun pastime that hoochee River, fishing in the and shad. Soft plastics like small many people enjoy, but it can cooler months is relatively the plastic worms, skirted jigs, and seem frustrating if you don’t same for any fish species. You’ll tube baits can be successful if catch anything. want to fish a smaller bait with a fished slowly and patiently. The slower action. Fish are cold- hardest part about fishing with ar - These tips will get you closer to blooded, so cooler water temper - tificial bait in the winter is slow - fish you’d like to have strike the atures make them lethargic. ing your action down to a crawl. other end of you line when the Cooler temperatures will also If you think you are fishing too weather gets cold and breezy. If slow their metabolism so they slow then you’re close to the you’re looking for new spots or don’t feed as often or on as large speed that will get a response somewhere close to home, the of prey. from your target. Live bait works GA DNR has public fishing areas well because it will move natu - Enjoy the tranquility of the Chattahoochee River while fishing. (Photo/Courtesy: The Fishing all across the state. Wire.com) Bait and Action rally with the water conditions. You can find your new fishing You’ll need to consider the type Minnows and shad will move where these fish are going to be water then falls to the bottom and structure of the lake bottom, such hole here: of bait you will be using. Many slowly and provide their own ac - when the water temperature the bottom layer rises to the top as a ledge or hump. Any change http://georgiawildlife.com/allp - food sources available in the tion same as a nightcrawler or red drops. You can use the perfect “turning over the lake”. After this in structure along with cover like fas. The Wildlife Resources Divi - spring and summer months aren’t wriggler. This way you don’t bait with marvelous presentation process, the deeper water will a dock or weed bed can make sion’s weekly fishing blog, in the winter. Frogs, grasshop - have to worry as much about bait but it wouldn’t matter if you now be warmer than the surface. great habitat for holding fish. https://georgiawildlife.word - pers, and leeches aren’t seen size and action. can’t put it in front of a fish. You Fish will hang out in this warmer This is where fish finder and hy - press.com/category/fishing/, is much during winter, so fishing might have heard of the term water in the deeper parts of the drographic maps come in real also a great site for timely tips with these lures will be unnatural Location, location, location! “turn over”. This is when the lake or pond where you are fish - handy. They make it generally and the latest fishing “hotspots,” to the fish. The same goes for No matter what you choose to warm water on the surface gets ing. Try casting over deep spots easy to find the structure/cover even in the cold weather! fishing stream fish with larger fish with, you have to know cold in the fall and winter. This where there are changes in the combination you are looking for. 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