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Lake Allatoona Fishing Report (10-10-13)

First Bite Guide Service

Line-Side: Fishing is getting Better. The bite this week has been decent to good.  The fish are starting to school back up and are willing to eat.  We caught most of our fish this week down-lining shad off of main lake points and humps. We also caught some decent fish 1/3 of the way back […]

Lake Allatoona Fishing Report (10-3-13)

First Bite Guide Service

Robert Eidson’s Lake Allatoona Fishing Guide Report is provided by First Bite Guide Service of Lake Allatoona.  When you’re ready to catch stripers and hybrids, contact Robert at 770-827-6282 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Line-side fishing is fair. The fish are still scattered up and down in the water column out over the river channel.  They […]

Red Top Mountain State Park is Open!

Volunteer at Lake Allatoona's Red Top Mountain State Park

Just because the goofballs in Washington cannot get along and (hello?) run the dang government, that doesn’t mean we can’t have fun romping and frolicking at Lake Allatoona’s Red Top Mountain State Park.  As a state park — not a federal park — it’s not affected by the shutdown of the United States government. Georgia State Parks […]

Lake Allatoona Fishing Report (9-26-13)

Robert Eidson's First Bite Guide Service on Lake Allatoona

Robert Eidson’s Lake Allatoona Fishing Guide Report is provided by First Bite Guide Service of Lake Allatoona.  When you’re ready to catch stripers and hybrids, contact Robert at 770-827-6282 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Lake Conditions Lake is full. Clear 4 – 5 feet. 79 degrees. Line-side fishing is still hit or miss.  Your best bet […]

Record Longnose Gar Taken from Lake Lanier

Gerald Kennedy's 30 pound, 13 ounce longnose gar caught on Lake Lanier 9-4-13.

Longnose gar appear to be prehistoric monsters to newbies.  They (the fish) are long, lean critters with mouths that appear to be enormously long and filled with sharp little teeth that would love to take a bite out of you. The northern portion of Lake Lanier on the Chattahoochee River is full of them — […]

Lake Allatoona Fishing Report (9-13-13)

First Bite Guide Service

Robert Eidson’s Lake Allatoona Fishing Guide Report is provided by First Bite Guide Service of Lake Allatoona.  When you’re ready to catch stripers and hybrids, contact Robert at 770-827-6282 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Line-sides: Fair!! The bite is starting to pick up and seems to be getting better. The fish are starting to move north […]

Lake Allatoona Fishing Report (9-5-13)

First Bite Guide Service

Robert Eidson’s Lake Allatoona Fishing Guide Report is provided by First Bite Guide Service of Lake Allatoona.  When you’re ready to catch stripers and hybrids, contact Robert at 770-827-6282 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Line-sides: Fair!! The bite is starting to pick up. The fish are starting to move north and can be caught from the Delta to Clear […]

Lake Allatoona Holiday Boating Incident Report

Bartow County Fire-Rescue Team

LakeAllatoona.com is grateful for this preliminary boating information report from Rick Lavender of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. This report contains statewide statistics and has specific totals for incidents on Lake Allatoona over the Labor Day holiday weekend, August 31-September 2, 2013. There were three deaths on public waters in Georgia. Two are considered […]

Lake Allatoona Fishing Report (8-29-13)

First Bite Guide Service

Robert Eidson’s Lake Allatoona Fishing Guide Report is provided by First Bite Guide Service of Lake Allatoona.  When you’re ready to catch stripers and hybrids, contact Robert at 770-827-6282 or by e-mail: [email protected]. Line-side fishing is still SLOW. I was in high hopes the bite would pick back up before the holiday weekend.  But if […]

Final Week of Summer for Some Day-Use Parks

Lake Allatoona ~~ Photo courtesy of Lake Allatoona Corps of Engineer's Facebook Page

This summer wasn’t the best in terms of weather, but there’s still time to enjoy US Army Corps of Engineers day-use parks and camping around Lake Allatoona. A few parks will close after Labor Day — Monday, September 2nd — and others will close later this year. We expect the lake to be quite busy over […]