josh o donnell
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No kidding. It’s the main reaason why I am trying to relocate.
I have read a lot about what the city coulda shoulda done. I am not really sure how else they could have handled it. I thought they did a pretty good job of getting everything cleaned up over a weekend.
I work in the GP building. We had windows blown out and lost some furniture. Nothing too major and it was business as normal on Monday. It did take me 2 hrs to go 500 yards on Cortland Monday am.
Thanks for the link. That’s a pretty cool site. I have been thinking of buying one those for a while.
I’ll probably start this up in mid March. Pontoons would be fine for the Hooch. You can park at Mount Paran and float to Paces. You can lock the toon up and walk back to your car if you don’t want to haul it back up.
I’ll float from Cochran shoals down to 41 and wade it during last couple of hours during the week. I’ll fish nymphs/ streamers that resemble a hellgramite. Basically a Black WB or a Rubber Legged Dragon.
Topwater is fun, especially during low water. I do like to drop a Black WB with no weight. Standard poppers and Stealth Bombers work well.
I tied up some bream patterns Puglisi style that I want to try out this year.
I almos postive that the shoal bass and redeye’s are two differant species. Redeye’s can survive in much cooler streams than shoalies. Shoalies also get much larger. A recent winning tourney angler on Blackshear stole the contest with a shoalie that was 6.4.
I think shoalies look a lot more like a smallie than a redeye with the bold stripes down their sides.
http://georgiawildlife.dnr.state.ga.us/content/displaycontent.asp?txtDocument=115&txtPage=5
The state has records for two differant species.
Now that the warmer temps are coming in, the shoalie bite on the Hooch DH should be coming on soon.
These are two hours east on I-20. I am going to make sure to load up a rod and a box next time I am over this way for work.
Concerns surround hybrid smallmouth
By Rob Pavey | Outdoors Editor
Sunday, October 21, 2007It took a fancy lab and DNA tests to unravel the persistent rumor that smallmouth bass have somehow found their way into the Savannah River near Augusta.
After analyzing one of the peculiar bronzebacks landed by local anglers, it turns out the fish was not a smallmouth at all – nor was it a native redeye bass known to inhabit the rocky shoals.
“It was neither species, but rather a cross between the two,” said Georgia fisheries biologist Ed Bettross, who has been working with South Carolina Department of Natural Resources biologists in efforts to solve the mystery.
A fish landed near the Waterworks Pumping Station in late summer was sent by S.C. biologists to the University of South Carolina genetics laboratory, where tests confirmed the fish was a hybrid.
“That’s been part of the concern, actually the biggest part of the concern, that if smallmouths got into the shoals, they would hybridize with the redeye and change the genetics of the redeye bass,” Bettross said. “Then we’d no longer have the pure redeye bass.”
One of the curious findings of the DNA tests showed the Augusta-area fish was likely a first generation hybrid – meaning its parents were purebred smallmouth and redeye bass, Bettross said.
“So the question becomes whether the smallmouths somehow worked their way down the basin and somehow hybridized the redeyes, or maybe it’s possible they were brought down here as hybrids,” Bettross said.
South Carolina DNR biologist Jean Leitner said several other fish are scheduled for tests to expand the findings from the first one.
Smallmouths don’t occur naturally anywhere near Augusta, she said.
“We haven’t had any indication of them being anywhere in this drainage here except at Keowee and Jocassee and both of those lakes are far upstate,” she said. “We’ve only tested this one fish, but if smallmouths are there in the shoals, it is trouble because you lose the redeye as a species there.”
I am 29 and reside in Atlanta working for Georgia Pacific. I grew up fishing and got my first flyrod when I was eight from my grandfather. It’s purpose was to keep me from bothering him while worked on our farm. Kind of fell out of it through high school and college and picked up after starting my first job. Do some trout fishing in the mountains, but bass fish farm ponds and local flows for the most part. Shoal bass are growing to be my prefered fish. Don’t really do any destination fishing. This year, hoping to land some carp and figure out the striper fishing at my parents house on Lake Greenwood and Saluda River.
Thanks for sharing. I am going to check this area out in the yak. I saw some on between Whitewater and Paces a couple of weeks ago.
Cool, thanks for the ideas. I will try that foil on the shaving cream. I want to tie up some bigger ones for linesides so that will help to get a shad look.
Thanks Zach,
What are you using to color them? I was going to use sharpies but didn’t know if there was something better.
I would be interested if you’re still planning this.
How about doing this down at Paces? Could try to catch some shoalies afterwards.
