Lake Blackshear is a shallow 8,500-acre impoundment of the Flint River formed by the Crisp County (Warwick) Dam, completed in 1930 and still operated by the Crisp County Power Commission. It is a classic Deep South cypress lake: averaging only about 11 feet deep with a max near 44 feet in the forebay, its upper end above the U.S. 280 causeway is a maze of standing timber, cypress trees, stumps, and the old flooded Flint River channel. Largemouth relate heavily to cypress trunks, submerged brush, grass flats, and creek mouths (Cedar, Gum, Swift Creeks and Collins Branch), while the winding main river channel provides the deeper migration routes. In spring, bass spawn on sandy pockets and grass flats near cypress and move shallow to flip cover; as summer heat builds they stay surprisingly shallow around shade lines and current, then relate to channel edges, riprap causeways, and bridge pilings in winter.
Largemouth bass · Striped bass · Black crappie · Bluegill · Redear sunfish · Channel catfish · Flathead catfish
Everything below points at one goal — finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth bass on Lake Blackshear.
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