Air Temp: High: 54 - Low: 21
Wind: Up to 25 Mph
Lake Level: Approx. 830.5' and Slowly Dropping (Click Here For Current Water Level)
Water Temp: 52 - 54
Water Clarity: Clear to light stain (Allatoona Green)
Area Fished: Block House, Galt's Ferry, Little River, S-Turns, & Victoria Areas
Jigs Used: UV Shad - Dagger, UV Smoke - Dagger, Lemonade - Slab Dragon and 'Lectric Chicken - Small Fry
Technique: Trolling & Casting Jigs
Allatoona Weekly Crappie Fishing Report:
Old Man Winter blew into Lake Allatoona this past week and knocked the crappie in the head! The cold nights and strong winds kept most of us indoors this past week. We did manage a few crappie trolling with a 1.7lb White Crappie! But it was tough and not much to report on from this past week. We got on the water on Saturday early morning until noon with only 5 crappie. It was 22 degrees when we got on the water around 0730...we were happy to see the sun pop over those trees! We trolled mouths of creeks, mid creek and even went shallow to see if the crappie may have moved into the shallows for warmer water. The crappie we did catch were mid creek in the 12' to 15' range...roaming crappie. We saw fish holding tight to brush, none suspended...which generally means they are hunkered down and not feeding. We trolled using 1/16th oz. jig heads and 3/32nd oz. jig heads to target deeper crappie but they were in no mood to chase jigs. The cold front that came in this week took it's toll on the crappie and forced them deep as the overnight lows dipped into the 20's and the couple of cold nights really slowed things down. We heard from some reliable sources during the middle of the week that they found crappie schools suspended in 20' of water and would not bite! This is typical when the weather goes from one extreme to the other very quickly. The Allatoona crappie need some time to adjust to the rapid cooling of the water temps. The weather should stabilize next week and have a constant water temperature and the crappie will start feeding again.
Hunter Moore with Moore Outdoorz Guide Service had some success slowly fishing deep brush and docks with the UV Smoke Dagger, which is the latest color enhanced with an Ultra Violet additive that enhances light reflection in low light conditions, and the UV Shad Dagger but said that most of the crappie were on the small side. Lord willing Team Red Rooster will bring you another report next week! We now have a years worth of fishing reports archived on the site. Be sure to check out the archives for December 2023 and see what we were doing this time last year!
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Make sure to download the Red Rooster Long Line Trolling Guide for tips on how to troll for Allatoona Crappie.
Verse of the Week: But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.” ~ Micah 5:2.
Only Jesus Christ fits the Messianic claims of Micah 5:2. He was born in Bethlehem Ephrathah (Matthew 2; Luke 2:1-20). Jesus claimed to be the Messiah, the ruler of Israel (John 4:25-26). He also fits the description as being “from ancient times” or eternal (John 1:1; Colossians 1:16-17). No other ruler in Israel fits these requirements. Courtesy of gotquestions.org.
Cold Allatoona White Crappie!
Robbie with a nice Allatoona Black Crappie 
Another nice Allatoona White Crappie caught while trolling a Red Rooster 'Lectric Chicken Small Fry
Hunter Moore with Moore Outdoorz with an Allatoona Slab caught on a UV Shad Dagger.
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