Fishing Report For Blue Ridge Lake, GA

By Rick Seaman

March 15, 2025

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Fishing Report Blue Ridge Lake, GA

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Popular Fish Species Blue Ridge Lake, GA

Spotted Bass

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good To Excellent

Reported to be one of the best spotted bass fisheries in the state, Blue Ridge Lake continues to deliver. These spots also run bigger here, than most lakes in the state. Small worms, on a jighead or rigged Texas style, are a good choice of lures. Tube baits, jigs and spoons are also catching plenty of these feisty bass.

Walleye

Current Report: Fair To Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Early in the morning, and from dusk to long after dark are good times to catch walleye, as they move shallow to feed. Spring and Fall are the best season for catching walleye. In Summer and Winter, they like to school up in deeper water where they slow-cruise around flats and structure close to deep water. They primarily feed close to the bottom. When walleye are in 15' of water or deeper, blade baits, jigs, swimbaits and spoons are catching them. Once you locate a school, a drop-shot rig with minnow-shaped plastics is a good way to work the school. Locals report spoons, deep-diving crankbaits, and worm harness spinners are also catching walleye while trolling. Currently the bulk of the walleye are in the upper end of the lake, preparing to move shallow once the water warms in Spring.

White Bass

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

White bass tend to start their spawn run in Spring, once the water temperature gets into the mid 50's. This movement is starting now, and schools of white bass ate being found around points and flats, in relatively shallow water. White bass move upstream into the river area, and running creeks, and congregate for several weeks. The area south of Lake Blue Ridge Recreation Area, into the Toccoa River, has been producing already this year. This is a prime time to fill the livewells with some fat white bass. Swimbaits, spoons, curly-tail jigs, underspins, small crankbaits, small jerkbaits, and most any lure that looks like baitfish are catching plenty of fish. In Summer, and again in Winter, white bass will migrate back to the main body of the lake following schools of bait.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, walleye, rainbow trout, brown trout, bluegill, green sunfish, redbreast sunfish, redear sunfish, rock bass, spotted sunfish, warmouth, white bass and yellow perch at Blue Ridge Lake in Georgia.

Blue Ridge Lake is a 3,300-acre lake with 65 miles of shoreline. It is located in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Anglers can choose from a wide variety of fish species, including spotted, largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleye, white bass, trout, perch and sunfish.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".