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Lake Allatoona Spotted Bass report 02/01/26

Can you say cold! Water temps ranging from 45°-47° all across the lake. Air temps Vary daily but most days we’re seeing 25°-40° with 5-15mph winds.
The lake is muddy from little river all the way to clear creek. With slight staining from clear creek to the dam and clear from the dam towards the iron hill area.

Spotted bass were a little easier to locate prior to all the rain that rose the lake level and muddied the water. They can still be found hovering around the creek channel and steeper channel swings that parallel the bank. As well as sandy/gravel points. One point I found this week had fish holding in it with only 15ft of water across the point. Shaking a minnow with FFS as well as a flutter spoon or A rig will catch these fish located in these areas. There has also been a decent jig bite around these sandy/gravel points
Largemouth have been hit or miss for me the back half of his month, you can burn a rock crawler in an red color down the bank and around rocks in the afternoon but the bites have been sporadic at-least for me the past 2 weeks. If you do get one to commit hang on because the bigs have been showing themselves lately. Multiple 15-16lb bags have been weighed in recently.
In the coming weeks I’ll be looking for more and more bait to show up in these common areas around channel swings as well as more spotted bass. Right now there are a lot of schools of hybrids/stripes/and crappie right now.
Be careful out there and wear your pfd, as these low water temps paired with multiple layers of clothing can be deadly if you fall in this time of yeard

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Gotta love some rain to get the fish active! Newest fishtip for Allatoona dropping tomorrow on patterns for winter success!
Also found a ffs head for deeper fish

Winter patterns are starting to crank up! New FishTip dropping THIS weekend highlighting areas with guaranteed fish and bait

Lake Allatoona 10/23/25 Spotted bass report

The lake is in the first phases of the turnover currently, areas around little river up to Victoria are currently turning. Galts to the dam shouldn’t be too soon after. The turnover can present some amazing fishing times but also present some leaving the lake scratching your head times. Majority of the spots have left their summertime hangouts and are transitioning to the first 1/3-2/3 of the creeks as well as shallow flats.
Covering water is in my opinion one of the keys to success this time of year. The fish are moving quickly and spots are changing almost daily.
The good news is you can almost pick your favorite presentation this time of year and be successful with it.
I like to start off throwing either a buzz bait or popr on steeper bluff walls and rock early in the day to try and find eager fish cruising, once the sun comes up take a spro rock crawler, minime or spoon and throw it wherever you can find lay downs right now, especially with the lake coming down rather quickly it can be tough to find laydowns that have decent water on them. However, finding ones still holding in some water will almost always hold fish. Take your time scouting and develop a milk run type pattern targeting banks with deeper blowdowns on them.
For the finesse and scope guys. Keep the drop shot and shakey head on deck and look for that bite to get even better. Fish are holding on brush piles in the 10ft range and can be casted to on FFS. Watch he fish follow it down and work it slowly through the brush pile, you can also get right on top and drop on them as well. Look for this bite to get better as it cools like I said before.
The largemouth are also out and you have a high chance of stumbling upon a decent one this time of year while covering water. I had a decent one eat a shaky head on top of a blowdown as I was reeling it in yesterday.

As the lake turns over as a whole keep moving and don’t spend too much time in areas with a lot of bubbles/scum on the surface. The fishing should only get better once the turnover starts subsiding.
Feel free to pm me and questions and good luck !

Summertime patterns are almost in full swing! Schooling action has been insane lately, newest report just dropped on

Great guide trip today! 30+ fish caught! lake is on fire right now. Gonna get the guide trips started up more consistently here soon. Shoot me a pm for more information!

Spring has sprung! Best time of year to get out there with honestly any lure and catch fish! Only a matter of weeks before the schooling actions takes off, which is arguably the best time of year to be out there! Check the fishtip in bio to get in on the action with spots/lures that guarantee fish catches!

Lake Allatoona 4/11 Report

With the recent rains this week Allatoona is back up to full pool at 840ft! But with the recent cold front that came through this past week water temps have either fallen some or remained steady for the most part. I was noticing almost 70 degree water temps 2 weeks ago and this week water temps ranged from 64-67 degrees.Unsure whether the cor is going to pull more water or let the lake hover close to full pool with labor day around the corner.

Spotted Bass. Prior to the cold front I was seeing a lot of spots shallow on pea gravel and shallower protected bluff walls in the backs of creeks or close to secondary points. With the recent rains and the lake rising 5-6ft the spots have been shallower in the mornings and deeper as the day goes on. The topwater bite has officially started and spots can be caught on flukes and poprs on those banks. As the day goes on, if the sun is high spots can be found chasing bait balls around the couple major creeks that flow into the lake. FFS with a minnow has been productive at catching these fish. A shakey head and jerkbait has also produced in these areas on the spots in the afternoons.
Largemouth. - Still very shallow, the majority of them are on bed right now. All the beds I saw this week were vacant. Presumably from the many tournaments that have happened in the past 2 weeks. Some can still be found on beds in hidden and protected areas if you look hard enough. MY primary tactics for targeting the largemouth has been fishing in the very back of the coves or in the teacup pockets that border any of the bigger coves, a fluke has been productive this week in catching the largemouth, and an added bonus if the pocket has pollen for the fish to get under. A shakey head with any green pumpkin style worm under docks in pockets has also been productive for largemouth.
In the coming weeks look for the shallow bite and topwater to get even better as majority of the spots begin to bed - a quick fact is the spots even if they have made a bed will pull off them if the water temps drop and return once the water warms again whereas the largemouth will commit to a bed once the make one.
feel free to message me with any questions or clarifications
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