My son and I tried to find some of Blackshear's shellcrackers Friday. From what we heard we were fishing the right places but were a week or two late.

I haven't fished Blackshear but about a dozen times and I haven't learned enough about it to have any confidence in my ability to catch fish there. She is a beautiful lake with every kind of cover I like to fish but she sure hasn't given up any of her secrets to me or made me very welcome.

The Oconee River is getting right at Dublin so I'm going to replace the trolling equipment in my old boat with river fishing gear and look for some bream and channel cats.