I've fished Hartwell 50 yrs.anglers would do very well to take a course on herring! Learn the forage!! Learn all you can about the blue back herring! This will help bass fishermen on herring lakes tremendously! Guys,herring are not shad!
Wow Randy, this helps a bunch. I have been living a couple miles from the boat ramp at Lake Glenville,(Thorpe Res.), for a little over a year now and I struggle to find fish here. I can catch huge slob sized yellow perch and occasionally I find bass deep and catch them on heavy jiggin rap style lures. One day I got into huge crappie, some of which were well over three pounds each. nine out of ten times though, its the dead sea. Blueback herring are the forage mostly . Now I have a better idea of what to figure on as I search the lake for the bass. Thanks Randy. George.
Sorry don't comment much. Use my phone most of the time but I never miss a video. Learn a lot. Live in Northwest Montana have a bass tracker xl classic. everything I need. Not good enough to spend too much. Thank you for your videos.
Truly love the videos... Fishing blue back herring lakes don't fall in love with a spot... stick and move... fish slow or thorough..then move.. you're first 10 casts if the fish are there will be most important...
Fished with you on the last day of the Maryland Top 150 in 1998. You helped me finish 4th in the Amateur side. I live on Hartwell now and this video really helps. Tight lines!
Randy I'm 52 and been fishing places like the Arkansas river, Lake Ouachita, Lake Degray, Lake Conway etc. since I was 8 years old and while I have been very good you have unlocked a new level with my shallow water work.I used to be a clear water junkie and now I am looking for the mud.
Great advice. As we live in Dalton, GA, Chickamauga is my main lake, but we have a condo on Lake Chatuge on the GA/NC border and it is a herring lake. We visit it several times a year on weekends and my BassCat/Yamaha is in tow. You are spot on with the comment about viewing the lake in sections. Lower, at the dam, is full of schoolers and the upper end (river) is much more a traditional area, while the mid lake tends to be dead for a good portion of the year. Best of luck at Hartwell and wave as you go back home.
Excellent intel Randy. In the 90s my family would fish Russell the cute lake sandwiched in between the ones you mentioned and we were always fishing numbers and not size. We always focused on the lower creeks. I have never had a problem locating blue backs. We simply would cast a spinner bait until we had them start following back to the boat then put our fishing focus in those areas. Good luck I I the derby and have been wondering what happened to you. You were such a presence in the 90s when I heavily followed bass. I am now a subscriber and good luck. We always blasted them on those lake with a 4in salt and pepper zoom ringworm on a slider head. I love those lakes because I think their unpredictablity makes them predictable. Always through flukes around bridges and their structure. Great video.
Thank you so much Randy!! I fish Clarkshill and it’s very tough for new anglers like myself to fish these blueback lakes. No one ever gives any info outside of the blueback spawn. I would love to do a virtual lesson or attend a seminar on all the different seasons for these blueback lakes. Please ,please keep doing what you and Jonny are doing it is invaluable. I really look forward to your Hartwell videos it will help tremendously. Thank you
Please keep up this kind of content....your videos are great. I am in California nowhere near a blueback herring and it was still really interesting. Thank you!
Great info Randy. Always good to hear your point of view. Cannot wait to see the break down of this lake. This is my home lake, so should be very interesting.
I cannot wait for all of your Hartwell footage to come out from practice and the tournament! I went out there Saturday and it was tough until i got on a topwater flurry around 3pm.
Floating out in the middle of a Creek making a video while practicing and that little smirk on his face while doing so. He is on em guys....lol. Go get em Randy!!! Good luck Man.
I fish lake hartwell all the time. I’m from Anderson. I typically stay on the upper end. Good video
Great info! Thanks for sharing.
I've fished Hartwell 50 yrs.anglers would do very well to take a course on herring! Learn the forage!! Learn all you can about the blue back herring! This will help bass fishermen on herring lakes tremendously! Guys,herring are not shad!
Wow Randy, this helps a bunch. I have been living a couple miles from the boat ramp at Lake Glenville,(Thorpe Res.), for a little over a year now and I struggle to find fish here. I can catch huge slob sized yellow perch and occasionally I find bass deep and catch them on heavy jiggin rap style lures. One day I got into huge crappie, some of which were well over three pounds each. nine out of ten times though, its the dead sea. Blueback herring are the forage mostly . Now I have a better idea of what to figure on as I search the lake for the bass. Thanks Randy. George.
Randy? How do you determine the “ lower end” ?
Sorry don't comment much. Use my phone most of the time but I never miss a video. Learn a lot. Live in Northwest Montana have a bass tracker xl classic. everything I need. Not good enough to spend too much. Thank you for your videos.
Very much enjoy all your videos. Keep them coming!
Where would you start on Lake Murray in late February?
Do you catch them on jerkbaits on the lower end? How about on Smith?
Truly love the videos... Fishing blue back herring lakes don't fall in love with a spot... stick and move... fish slow or thorough..then move.. you're first 10 casts if the fish are there will be most important...
Fished with you on the last day of the Maryland Top 150 in 1998. You helped me finish 4th in the Amateur side. I live on Hartwell now and this video really helps. Tight lines!
Randy
I'm 52 and been fishing places like the Arkansas river, Lake Ouachita, Lake Degray, Lake Conway etc. since I was 8 years old and while I have been very good you have unlocked a new level with my shallow water
work.I used to be a clear water junkie and now I am looking for the mud.
Great insight! Thanks for sharing, Randy.
Great and very useful insight! Thanks Randy! God bless you and yours!
It is really nice of you to make these videos. Thank you man. 👊
Good info,see you there
Great advice. As we live in Dalton, GA, Chickamauga is my main lake, but we have a condo on Lake Chatuge on the GA/NC border and it is a herring lake. We visit it several times a year on weekends and my BassCat/Yamaha is in tow. You are spot on with the comment about viewing the lake in sections. Lower, at the dam, is full of schoolers and the upper end (river) is much more a traditional area, while the mid lake tends to be dead for a good portion of the year. Best of luck at Hartwell and wave as you go back home.
Excellent intel Randy. In the 90s my family would fish Russell the cute lake sandwiched in between the ones you mentioned and we were always fishing numbers and not size. We always focused on the lower creeks. I have never had a problem locating blue backs. We simply would cast a spinner bait until we had them start following back to the boat then put our fishing focus in those areas. Good luck I I the derby and have been wondering what happened to you. You were such a presence in the 90s when I heavily followed bass. I am now a subscriber and good luck. We always blasted them on those lake with a 4in salt and pepper zoom ringworm on a slider head. I love those lakes because I think their unpredictablity makes them predictable. Always through flukes around bridges and their structure. Great video.
Thank you so much Randy!! I fish Clarkshill and it’s very tough for new anglers like myself to fish these blueback lakes. No one ever gives any info outside of the blueback spawn. I would love to do a virtual lesson or attend a seminar on all the different seasons for these blueback lakes. Please ,please keep doing what you and Jonny are doing it is invaluable. I really look forward to your Hartwell videos it will help tremendously. Thank you
I fish at Clark’s well is there a way to catch herring and not buy herring for a lot of money
Exactly! Good luck!
What I run into,the fish will hang under the bait,but are only catchable when they decide to feed.
Good luck this week Let's go RANDY
Great info thanks
Good info. Thanks.
Good luck Randy!
Please keep up this kind of content....your videos are great. I am in California nowhere near a blueback herring and it was still really interesting. Thank you!
Great info Randy. Always good to hear your point of view. Cannot wait to see the break down of this lake. This is my home lake, so should be very interesting.
I think I detected a little smile, I think he is onto something. Good Luck
May want to give tournament tips after the tournament......haha....
Go get um Randy!
Good Luck!
I know lake Lanier and clarks hill have the blue backs ,how boat Sinclair and west point.
Good luck on Hartwell. It’s your time!!
Good info, my home lake is Murray... hate it!
I cannot wait for all of your Hartwell footage to come out from practice and the tournament! I went out there Saturday and it was tough until i got on a topwater flurry around 3pm.
Good luck again man, heck i learned something on this and i live here haha. Im enjoying your videos. Ill be at weigh in on thurs
How is practice going on heart well?
I seen a few of yall today while I was bank fishing! Good luck thanks love the videos! I was catching them on a lipless today
Good luck that explains why i can't find fish in santee or clarks hill i need to find dirty water
I think Randy found something good and let’s just say he don’t care about the herring....
Hartwell sux!!! Horrible lake. Pontoons and jet skis everywhere!!! Tournaments every day!!
Floating out in the middle of a Creek making a video while practicing and that little smirk on his face while doing so. He is on em guys....lol. Go get em Randy!!! Good luck Man.
Thank you so much for a video on bluebacks. I live on Clark’s Hill and it’s a tough and changes day to day.
So do I either we do pretty good or struggle to get a bite.