The bait shop thread and the question about pay lakes made me think of some of them that I used to fish on the regular.
I mentioned G&B s Lake yesterday in a post. Off Hurt Road in Austell (or Smyrna...there used to not be any real line separating the 2). GBs was FULL of bluegill about the size of your hand and they would tear up a popping bug. Hard to catch on anything else because they were highly pressured but they were a SUCKER for a popping bug or even better a Bates Bee. They could also be enticed with a flat lined cricket if you could get them fed up fat enough to make casting them possible. There were also some nice crappie in that lake, unusual for a lake that size. Also some bass and of course catfish but the bream were the draw for me.
Another one I remember was Flying S Ranch. Again, BIG bream. Flying S was great and the fish could be caught just about any way you wanted to catch them but a nighcrawler, weightless, dropped on the bend of the creek channel was blue bloody murder on BIG bream. It was also a great place to catch them on a fly rod. I don't remember any crappie at Flying S but there were some HUGE bass and lots of 2 pounders. It was a honey hole for 6-8 pound bass in the winter on a craw colored jig fished in the stump rows in the creek channel.
Another was Twin Lakes in Fairburn. BIG place, had a BUNCH of lakes and ponds but 2 really big ones. These lakes produced a lot of fish over the years. Bream and Crappie tended to be small but there were some serious hawgs caught out of several of those lakes over the years. I have personally caught a couple that would push double digits. The truly great thing about Twin Lakes though was the owner allowed me and a bunch of friends, at 9-12 years old, to be dropped off on a Friday morning with a small boat, camping gear and enough food to feed an small army if they liked fried bologna and fish until Daddy came to get us on Sunday evening! They didn't allow this once or twice but anytime we could talk Daddy into taking us! Imagine allowing 3-4 9-12 year old boys the run of a such a spectacular place for 3 days at a time with zero adult supervision to speak of. It was GLORIOUS! We would fish, tell what passed for dirty stories, play pranks on one another and eat enough food to feed a family for a month. There were some characters around that place at times...very popular make out spot for local teens. The things we saw would make a European blush.....it was GREAT!
I mentioned G&B s Lake yesterday in a post. Off Hurt Road in Austell (or Smyrna...there used to not be any real line separating the 2). GBs was FULL of bluegill about the size of your hand and they would tear up a popping bug. Hard to catch on anything else because they were highly pressured but they were a SUCKER for a popping bug or even better a Bates Bee. They could also be enticed with a flat lined cricket if you could get them fed up fat enough to make casting them possible. There were also some nice crappie in that lake, unusual for a lake that size. Also some bass and of course catfish but the bream were the draw for me.
Another one I remember was Flying S Ranch. Again, BIG bream. Flying S was great and the fish could be caught just about any way you wanted to catch them but a nighcrawler, weightless, dropped on the bend of the creek channel was blue bloody murder on BIG bream. It was also a great place to catch them on a fly rod. I don't remember any crappie at Flying S but there were some HUGE bass and lots of 2 pounders. It was a honey hole for 6-8 pound bass in the winter on a craw colored jig fished in the stump rows in the creek channel.
Another was Twin Lakes in Fairburn. BIG place, had a BUNCH of lakes and ponds but 2 really big ones. These lakes produced a lot of fish over the years. Bream and Crappie tended to be small but there were some serious hawgs caught out of several of those lakes over the years. I have personally caught a couple that would push double digits. The truly great thing about Twin Lakes though was the owner allowed me and a bunch of friends, at 9-12 years old, to be dropped off on a Friday morning with a small boat, camping gear and enough food to feed an small army if they liked fried bologna and fish until Daddy came to get us on Sunday evening! They didn't allow this once or twice but anytime we could talk Daddy into taking us! Imagine allowing 3-4 9-12 year old boys the run of a such a spectacular place for 3 days at a time with zero adult supervision to speak of. It was GLORIOUS! We would fish, tell what passed for dirty stories, play pranks on one another and eat enough food to feed a family for a month. There were some characters around that place at times...very popular make out spot for local teens. The things we saw would make a European blush.....it was GREAT!
