Chatuge Lake, Ga & NC

[Carolina Fisher]

This is my home water , its a highly pressured small lake that usually takes a bag of 14+ to be in the money . There is generally 3 evening pot tournaments a week from multiple ramps , and usually 3-7 club tournaments every saturday followed by a 6-12 pm night tournament that draws an average of 40 boats every saturday night . This lake is blessed with structure , blowdowns , brushpiles , chunk rock , clay , numerous islands and points . and plenty of boat docks .

If you were here in October , you were on the back end of a summer that saw a huge drought , record temps and extremely high water tempratures . I haven't saw a smallmouth weighed in in almost 3 years now . Some VERY healthy spotted bass , and a quality population of largemouth are the norm . Popular lake to fish and as you said beautiful scenery .

I had alot of successs in October both on the drop shot , and crankbaits . Anything green in soft plastic is your color of choice , shad patterned crankbaits and you can't go wrong . Wind and typical "spot" patterns will bring you the most success , if your looking for largemouth head to the rivers both on the NC and GA side .

If you ever do decide to make a return trip shoot me a pm and I'll get you pointed in the right direction , very good lake , but tough to figure out .