On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:29:16 -0500, Reggie Smithers
wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On 6 Jan 2006 07:55:08 -0800, wrote:


Reggie Smithers wrote:

It sounds like you have one of those Go Fast Bass Boats that terrorize the
lake. ; )

Is the fishing adequate in the winter or all the fish too lethargic?

They are slow when and if they are shallow in the cold water, but
usually, being a very deep lake, they go deep to warmer water. Stripers
like it like that, and are really active all winter long.

http://www.lakelanierstripers.com/ Shane's a buddy. I met him because
I was dogging him one day to find out where the stripers were!!

Spotted, and large mouth bass are slow usually, but can be caught.
Smallies are active. we are in a unique fishery, both cold water and
warm water species in Lanier. There are walleye, trout, brim, sunfish,
blue gill, crappie, catfish, etc.


As for the boat, it's old, but it does go like hell! But, if you get in
a cove where there's lots of sailboats and cruisers plying the waters,
they churn the hell out of the water, and with the wind there's
whitecaps alot.

http://lanier.sam.usace.army.mil/


What are the 'fish attractors' for which you can download maps? Are those something
the Corps put in the lake? Artificial structure, or what?

JohnH,
The fish attractors can be anything to provide coverage for the fish I
have actually seen where they will sink some Christmas trees.

But they wouldn't print the locations of sunk Christmas trees on a map, would they?
On atlman's site there were maps of fish attractor locations.

--
John H.

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes

JohnH wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:29:16 -0500, Reggie Smithers
wrote:


JohnH wrote:

On 6 Jan 2006 07:55:08 -0800, wrote:



Reggie Smithers wrote:


It sounds like you have one of those Go Fast Bass Boats that terrorize the
lake. ; )

Is the fishing adequate in the winter or all the fish too lethargic?

They are slow when and if they are shallow in the cold water, but
usually, being a very deep lake, they go deep to warmer water. Stripers
like it like that, and are really active all winter long.

http://www.lakelanierstripers.com/ Shane's a buddy. I met him because
I was dogging him one day to find out where the stripers were!!

Spotted, and large mouth bass are slow usually, but can be caught.
Smallies are active. we are in a unique fishery, both cold water and
warm water species in Lanier. There are walleye, trout, brim, sunfish,
blue gill, crappie, catfish, etc.


As for the boat, it's old, but it does go like hell! But, if you get in
a cove where there's lots of sailboats and cruisers plying the waters,
they churn the hell out of the water, and with the wind there's
whitecaps alot.

http://lanier.sam.usace.army.mil/


What are the 'fish attractors' for which you can download maps? Are those something
the Corps put in the lake? Artificial structure, or what?


JohnH,
The fish attractors can be anything to provide coverage for the fish I
have actually seen where they will sink some Christmas trees.


But they wouldn't print the locations of sunk Christmas trees on a map, would they?
On atlman's site there were maps of fish attractor locations.

John,
There are sections of the lake that they did not remove the trees when
they were clearing the lake. My guess is this is the "fish attractors"
they have on the map.

--
Reggie
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 11:16:43 -0500, Reggie Smithers
wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:29:16 -0500, Reggie Smithers
wrote:


JohnH wrote:

On 6 Jan 2006 07:55:08 -0800, wrote:



Reggie Smithers wrote:


It sounds like you have one of those Go Fast Bass Boats that terrorize the
lake. ; )

Is the fishing adequate in the winter or all the fish too lethargic?

They are slow when and if they are shallow in the cold water, but
usually, being a very deep lake, they go deep to warmer water. Stripers
like it like that, and are really active all winter long.

http://www.lakelanierstripers.com/ Shane's a buddy. I met him because
I was dogging him one day to find out where the stripers were!!

Spotted, and large mouth bass are slow usually, but can be caught.
Smallies are active. we are in a unique fishery, both cold water and
warm water species in Lanier. There are walleye, trout, brim, sunfish,
blue gill, crappie, catfish, etc.


As for the boat, it's old, but it does go like hell! But, if you get in
a cove where there's lots of sailboats and cruisers plying the waters,
they churn the hell out of the water, and with the wind there's
whitecaps alot.

http://lanier.sam.usace.army.mil/


What are the 'fish attractors' for which you can download maps? Are those something
the Corps put in the lake? Artificial structure, or what?


JohnH,
The fish attractors can be anything to provide coverage for the fish I
have actually seen where they will sink some Christmas trees.


But they wouldn't print the locations of sunk Christmas trees on a map, would they?
On atlman's site there were maps of fish attractor locations.

John,
There are sections of the lake that they did not remove the trees when
they were clearing the lake. My guess is this is the "fish attractors"
they have on the map.

Oh, OK. I didn't think unremoved trees would warrant special maps.

--
John H.

"Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it."
Rene Descartes