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My husband and I are from Florida and will be here in Columbus Georgia for the next 5 months while he oversees construction on a new restaurant. We are heading home next weekend to pick up our boat to have up here with us and would like to do a little crappie fishing.
Just wondering what lakes around Columbus area would be worth a try.
Thanks!
Ginny
Lake Eufaula . Folks have good luck around florence marina
Awesome and thank you for the quick reply. We are out checking out different launch spots today for the future.
Ginny
Lake Harding North of Columbus is good also from what I have heard.
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lake Harding has some good crappie in it i did fish it some years back a couple of time . falconsmitty fished it regular and did some guide service but his health and his wife has some health problems . dom`t know if he is able to fish anymore .
Lake Eufaula south of Columbus and Lake Harding to the North...both are excellent crappie lakes. I fish both regularly, so PM when ya'll get ready to go and I will give ya'll some areas that produce fish.
We checked it out today. Looks like a good place to launch from, etc. Thank you again!
Ginny
Just saw the other posts about Lake Harding also. Thanks Thunder, Papasage and Dutch for the info. Dutch I will definitely PM you. Going next weekend to get the boat and hope to fish the following weekend.
Ginny
Lived in Columbus for 3 years stationed there in the Air Force. Harding was my favorite lake. Caught biggest crappy I've every caught and have it mounted. 3 pound monster😉
Hey. I'm an hr or so away on Martin. Bite will be good next month or so. If you want to come over for weekend. Have a bunk room for rent. 100 bux a nite for Cdc members. I cook breakfast. On water with community boat ramp.
Yowza!! That's awesome. A 3 pounder!
Yesterday after heading south to check Florence Marina we headed back north and checked out Lake Harding Marina (no public ramp access), the GA Power ramp (nice launch there) on Mountain Road just a couple miles north and Blanton Creek Park a few miles north of that. Looking forward to getting out in a couple weekends from now and trying to catch a fish or two.
Ginny
Sounds great! We arent sure what the plans are yet but will figure it out soon. Sending a PM tomorrow after I make some calls.
Ginny
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If you fish Harding another decent ramp is the Long Bridge Boat Ramp on the Alabama side.Quote:
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Riverbend state park in cusseta just south of fort benning lake Walter f george. Fish it regularly for crappie
Picked up the boat in Florida and dropped it at Florence Marina last weekend. Talked to some people that had fished while we were there and most that we spoke to were taking in the shell crackers and bream and not trying for Crappie. Rented a cabin for this weekend from Ftiday to Sunday (yay!) and cant wait to get out on the water and have some fun. Thanks to everyone for the advise and input.
Ginny
Ginny
have fun . just hope the weather cooperates .
The weather guessers can't scare me away this weekend. We are staying in a cabin so we decided if we get rained in we will chill, eat, nap, and work on our fishing gear... lol. Life is good.Quote:
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Ginny
there is raine suites .
Lets know how you done on the shell crackers and bream, please.
It didn't rain us out and we had a great time. Caught lots of bream, no crappie and no shellcrackers. But we didn't really have a good way to get around slowly and quietly with the big 24 ft pontoon so once we found a bed of bream we fished there. At home we fresh water fish with a smaller boat that has a trolling motor and crappie rigging.Quote:
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Really beautiful place and lots of people fishing up and down the river.
Attached some pictures of the river and wildlife. The Osprey has 2 chicks on the nest and they have zorro masks you can see if you zoom in. We had such a great weekend there at Florence Marina State Park. Our friends are coming up next weekend (not the holiday weekend) and we are going back for a long weekend with them.
Thanks to all who gave us advice on where to go.
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Florence Marina A good place to go Hope you and your friends have fun thanks for the pictures
looks like the weather is going to put a damper on fishing for a few days .
It's not raining today but the river looks like Mocha Cappuccino. Is that bad for the boat motor?Quote:
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Lots of debris in the water especially near the causeway/bridge down towards Eufala where it seems to have all gotten backed up.
Picture is some of the debris and I didn't think to take a picture of the thick debris fields. Second picture shows the color of the water. Wasn't like this last weekend.
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Sorry once again for the late reply to your PM. Working is killing my fishing time, as in none since mid-april.:banghead
Muddy water like that are not a issue, but do keep a sharp eye out for bigger logs and debris as all this rain will be flushing the creeks out into the river.