Lake Oconee is a 19,050-acre Georgia Power reservoir on the Oconee River, impounded by Wallace Dam (completed 1979), a pumped-storage plant that pulls water back and forth between Oconee and downstream Lake Sinclair, so the lake pulses with generation current that positions bass on hard cover. The reservoir has two main river arms - the larger Oconee River arm and the Apalachee River arm - both fishable well above the I-20 crossing, plus major creek arms like Sugar, Richland, Lick and Sandy. With 374 miles of shoreline the lake is defined by man-made cover: thousands of boat docks, extensive bridge and causeway riprap (Sugar Creek, Parks Mill, Lake Oconee Parkway and Sparta Highway crossings), seawalls, and scattered grass and standing timber up the rivers. Seasonally, bass spawn shallow around docks, riprap and pockets in spring, pull to main-lake points, humps and deep bridges in 15-25 feet through summer, chase shad and herring on points and flats in fall, then hold on riprap, boulders and deeper docks in winter - with the bite almost always improving when the dam is moving water.
Largemouth bass · Spotted bass · Striped bass · Hybrid striped bass · White bass · Black crappie · Bluegill · Channel catfish
Everything below points at one goal — finding the most, and the biggest, largemouth bass on Lake Oconee.
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