We’ve had some great jig fishing at times. We’ve also had some great freelining when the fish have been active and up in the water column. These patterns have worked best early morning and late afternoon before the passing of a cold front. After a front passes or if the fish are down, shad body umbrella rigs are your best bet. There a lot of birds mid-lake and south, some on the main lake and some in the...

Letter sent to Georgia legislators from the districts around Lake Lanier on January 15, 2010 with copies to the governor, lieutenant governor, federal lawmakers and Corps officials. As the Georgia legislature begins its session this month, the members of the Lake Lanier Association (LLA) ask for your help in protecting Georgia’s finest natural resource. As the Tri-States water wars litigation and negotiations...

We have just learned that on January 20, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit denied a motion by Florida and Alabama to dismiss our appeals of Judge Magnuson’s July ruling. This is a sigificant victory for everyone in Georgia, and gives us an opportunity to restore water supply as a Congressionally-intended benefit of Lake Lanier.  The Association will continue to fight to protect all our members’...

Read the Lake Lanier Association’s 2010 updated ACF Water Control Manual Scoping Comments to Corps of Engineers Read the Lake Lanier Association’s 2008 ACF Water Control Manual Scoping Comments to Corps of Engineers Many Lake Lanier Association members participated in late 2008 in public meetings conducted by the Corps as part of the Environmental Impact Statement scoping for the upcoming Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint...