Fishing Report For Lake Nottely, GA

By Rick Seaman

June 18, 2025

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Fishing Report Lake Nottely, GA

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Popular Fish Species Lake Nottely, GA

Spotted Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Lake Nottely has a nice population of spotted bass. Fishing for them through the Winter has been a bit slow, which is typical. Now that water temperatures are in the mid 70's, pots are being caught in good numbers. The spawn is basically over, so spots tend to gather in small schools, and hold on steep, rocky banks with ledges in 10 to 35 of water, often even deeper. They move up and down the water column on these steep structures looking for food and comfortable water temperatures. Swimbaits, drop-shots, tube baits, worms, spinnerbaits and spoons are popular for spots, and are catching fish all around the lake.

Black Crappie

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Good

Crappie fishing has been excellent from late January through April, as crappie were shallow and feeding heavily. Now with the water warming they are pushing out of the pockets and coves to cooler water. Expect to find crappie around docks, brush, wood and deep vegetation. The best stringers are coming around brush, along creek channel edges in 10 to 20 feet of water. Anglers are using small crappie jigs or live minnows. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal. Anglers are reporting good success using fish finders and forward facing sonar to locate schools of crappie, which tend to stack vertically around cover.

Striped Bass

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

Water temperatures are getting warm now, and the spawn is basically over. Most big stripers here are caught during the cooler months, and we are at the tail end of that season. Summer however, improves the potential for catching numbers of smaller, schooling fish. Lots of these schooling fish are 5 to 6 pounds, and are quite fun to catch. The lake record is over 50 pounds, and many anglers believe there are plenty of fish weighing 30 to 40 pounds to be caught. In Summer, stripers hang out in deeper water during the day and feed close to, or holding above, the bottom, around 30 feet deep. Morning often draws the stripers to much shallower water, and they are being caught 10 to 20 feet deep as they feed on shallow-running schools of bait. Later in Summer, stripers will drive baitfish to the surface, and topwater action can be pretty spectacular. The lake is filled with plenty of threadfin shad and gizzard shad that keep this fishery thriving. Being successful at fishing for stripers is a matter of locating schools of these baitfish, and the wolf packs of stripers are likely to be nearby. Fish finders, and forward facing sonar, are a big help. Live bait and cut bait are also effective here, and stripers can be caught year round. Casting, jigging, long lining, and trolling are popular methods for catching stripers here. Swimbaits, jerkbaits, umbrella rigs, crankbaits, spoons, live bait and cut bait are all effective here.

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Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, spotted bass, channel catfish, black crappie, rainbow trout, bluegill, green sunfish, redbreast sunfish, redear sunfish, striped bass and hybrid striped bass at Lake Nottely in Georgia.

Lake Nottely is a 4,200-acre reservoir with over 100 miles of shoreline. The lake has populations of bass, catfish, crappie, rainbow trout, sunfish, striped bass and hybrid stripers. There is limited access for fishing from the bank.

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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".