Thread: Oconee

Let's hook up some time and fill um.the stump fields are not where it's at now.

Have you had any luck lately gtojoe?

Haven't been to oconee in a few weeks but I have been doing pretty good at Jackson.i would like to get out to oconee soon though.i have been reading a lot of the blogs and it seems sugar creek is not the place to go.most of what I have read is people catching way more out of lick creek and the Richland arm.if anyone has any input on where to go I would love to hear it

I have always heard Sugar creek is killer in the spring when they are spawning but I haven't fished there during the spring yet so I guess I will see this spring. I also heard from a few that the fish around Sugar and Lick generally are bigger than the ones up Richland but I don't see why that would matter. I had real good luck in the stumps at Sugar creek the whole month of October this past year but that day you and I met down there was the day that they shut off in the stumps. I believe the 2nd weekend in October my wife and I went and every stump I tightlined next to produced a fish or 2 and all were 10ft deep in 20-22ft of water. I tried fishing stumps around Richland in oct as well and all I managed to catch there and over by the dam in the stumps was cats and bass. I figure the timber isn't all that great nowdays as much of the limbs on the standing trees are all probably gone and rotted off by now so really not much cover for them. I have noticed I catch the most fish around the bigger stumps with lots of limbs still on them as well as where there is a clump of a bunch of smaller trees sticking out of the water.
Guess I will start going end of this month and Feb. I also have a vacation put in for the week of March 4th-10th so they better be hungry and fat then! Ready to break out the good ol bobbers and sit back and relax and reel in some fish in the shallow water.

I remember from your earlier reports about sugar creek I have been all over the place on oconee and right now it just seems to be real slow.but I hear mid feb it picks up big time and that's when the big ones are caught.i also heve heard the same about sugar creek being the spring spot along with the apalachee river arm above swords.

Soon its gonna be on at Oconee... still slow right now.

Welcome to the boards pop r!