Georgia Bass Slam 2025

[BigBass123]

Trying for the Georgia Bass Slam again this year.

Anyone that followed along last year, I started in August and got to 4/5 before bow season began which ended my fishing for the year. Starting a good bit earlier this year so should have more time to get it done.

Been working up in Chattanooga, and decided to do some fishing on my way home yesterday. Fishing a creek that’s part of the TN drainage and not too far from places I’ve caught smallmouth on the TN side, I was really hoping for one of them.

Just fished a watermelon worm, ended up catching this largemouth maybe 10 minutes in after landing a cast right in a cut out of the bank across from me. Couldn’t have made the 12” cut by any less.

Had a 4” eel looking sucker of some sort on him with a gnarly looking mouth that let go once I got the fish out of the water. Should have taken a picture of it since I’m curious what it was.

Fished that area a lot bit longer, deeper, slow moving water, before going to a different section of the creek that flowed faster and shallower. No bites at the other spot.

 

[cj580guitar]

Good luck on the slam this year. I’m gonna get started on ours here before long.

 

[DaMonOutdoors]

We may have fished the same creek. I came up about a week or 2 ago for Smallmouth but struck out on that. Caught an 8 inch LMB. Redeemed myself with a bigger Largie though. Wishing you the best!

 

[GeoMetro]

New poster to this forum and relatively new to fishing and trying to complete the slam this year (LMB was #1). Headed to the Tallapoosa River on Saturday to try and land a Tallapoosa Bass.

As far as rivers, I’ve only fished the Chattahoochee and haven’t had much luck fishing there or just river fishing in general. If anyone has any tips on Tallapoosa I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[Unavowed]

Are there 5 bass species?

 

[cowhornedspike]

10

 

[BigBass123]

Are there 5 bass species?

10

Georgia DNR counts 10 with Florida strain and Northern lmb bass as the same, and Kentucky spots and Alabama spots being the same.

IGFA counts 9, with Florida and Northern lmb, and Alabama vs Kentucky spots being different. But they lump all the redeye species Georgia counts as separate subspecies of the same redeye species.

Only one recognized by IGFA that you can’t find in Georgia would be the Guadalupe bass, found in Texas.

 

[BigBass123]

New poster to this forum and relatively new to fishing and trying to complete the slam this year (LMB was #1). Headed to the Tallapoosa River on Saturday to try and land a Tallapoosa Bass.

As far as rivers, I’ve only fished the Chattahoochee and haven’t had much luck fishing there or just river fishing in general. If anyone has any tips on Tallapoosa I would greatly appreciate it!

I caught mine last year on a white pond magic spinner bait, videos make it seem small spinnerbaits and small buzz baits work well on them.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Trying for the Georgia Bass Slam again this year.

Anyone that followed along last year, I started in August and got to 4/5 before bow season began which ended my fishing for the year. Starting a good bit earlier this year so should have more time to get it done.

Been working up in Chattanooga, and decided to do some fishing on my way home yesterday. Fishing a creek that’s part of the TN drainage and not too far from places I’ve caught smallmouth on the TN side, I was really hoping for one of them.

Just fished a watermelon worm, ended up catching this largemouth maybe 10 minutes in after landing a cast right in a cut out of the bank across from me. Couldn’t have made the 12” cut by any less.

Had a 4” eel looking sucker of some sort on him with a gnarly looking mouth that let go once I got the fish out of the water. Should have taken a picture of it since I’m curious what it was.

Fished that area a lot bit longer, deeper, slow moving water, before going to a different section of the creek that flowed faster and shallower. No bites at the other spot.

That would have been a lamprey.

 

[GeoMetro]

Struck out on the Tallapoosa Bass. Only mentioned to catch a couple of panfish before giving up.

Headed up to Helen tomorrow to fish that part of the Chattatohochee

 

[ryork]

Struck out on the Tallapoosa Bass. Only mentioned to catch a couple of panfish before giving up.

Headed up to Helen tomorrow to fish that part of the Chattatohochee

I'm a little late to the conversation, but there is a canoe launch on the Denmon Trail immediately downstream of the riprap "dam" at the Haralson County intake on the Tallapoosa on HWY 100 just north of Tallapoosa. It is a good place to catch just about anything in the current on the downstream side. The Tallapoosa bass seem to be more prevalent further upstream from there towards Buchanan.

 

[BigBass123]

Struck out on the Tallapoosa Bass. Only mentioned to catch a couple of panfish before giving up.

Headed up to Helen tomorrow to fish that part of the Chattatohochee

Tallapoosa took me two tries last year, river was high and dirty last weekend, about to head out there now to check it out.

Trying for a Chattahoochee bass up there?

 

[BigBass123]

Got 1 6” Tallapoosa today on a spinner bait, no other bites. Too small to count unfortunately.