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Air Temp: High: 70 - Low: 18
Wind: 5-10 mph
Lake Level: Approx. 825' and dropping (Click Here For Current Water Level)
Water Surface Temp: 46 - 50
Water Clarity: Clear Green to Stained depending on area of the lake
Area Fished: Blockhouse, Kellogg Creek, & Little River
Jigs Used: Wildcat - Talon 2.0, Black/Chartreuse - Kic'n Chic'n, Black & Blue Flake - Talon 2.0, Bubble Gum - Talon 2.0, Black & Blue - Slab Dragon, Lemonade - Slab Dragon, Black & Blue Flake - Georgia Razor & A new Test Color called "Blue Streak" which is a metallic silver body with a blue flake tail.
Technique: Trolling
Allatoona Weekly Crappie, Shellcracker & Bluegill Fishing Report:
Merry Christmas everybody! We hope that you had a great week and a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ with your friends and family this past week. We got out on the water a couple of days this past week and the weather was absolutely perfect for catching some Lake Allatoona crappie. The weather hasn't been this good for Christmas crappie fishing in four years! We hope that this good weather continues through January and if so we are going to have a great long line trolling crappie season! The lake is down almost 15' and a lot of land and structure has been uncovered. This is good as you can see some areas that are normally underwater that will be productive in the spring. We take pictures and notes of certain areas where structure exists that we didn't know was there. If you can get close to stumps, humps and brush that are exposed you will want to mark those areas because once the lake is at full pool those are areas that you want to fish in the spring. We have said this before but are approaching BIG crappie time frames. Usually the end of December through January is when we catch our larger crappie. Disclaimer: We only keep crappie that are 10" to 12"! We impose our own "slot limit" and leave the bigger crappie in the lake for spawning purposes...the bigger crappie make more crappie for years to come! Help us keep Lake Allatoona a great crappie lake for years to come by only harvesting crappie that are 10" to 12" long and keep only what you need and can eat when possible.
Crappie: Let the good times TROLL! We are all in for Long Line Trolling season! If you are not familiar with long line trolling or have questions, we are here to help! Reach out to Red Rooster if you need some tips on how to get started long line trolling for Lake Allatoona crappie. We got on the water this past week and had a great time on the water. The lake is down 15' and it looks quite a bit different as many landmarks are exposed such as points and structure that was underwater is now either completely out of the water or exposed. Be careful out there as you can run aground quick if you are not familiar with the lake. Your best bet is to stay in 10' to 12' of water and look deeper or shallow on either side of 12'. We are finding crappie out in deep open water suspended anywhere from 6' to 12' or as shallow as 4'! The main thing is the main thing...you want to be in proximity to creeks and the river channel. Troll the flats around the creeks, in the creek, around the mouths of creeks. Big water close by a creek or river should have schools or roaming crappie. We have great success pulling 1/24th & 1/16th oz. jig heads if the crappie are in 15' to shallow water. If the crappie are out deeper we run a mix of 1/16th oz. and 3/32nd oz. jig heads as well as a "Double Rig" which is where we tie on a 1/16th oz. jig head on top and a 1/32nd oz jig head on bottom. This time of year we rely heavily on sidescan and downscan. Sidescan will help you find schools of crappie and bait fish and downscan will tell you the depth that the crappie are in. Find the depth of the crappie and you will know what jig head size and speed you need to be trolling. This is where the Red Rooster Long Line Trolling Guide will help you! Our go to colors this time of year are Black/Blue, Black Chartreuse, Lemonade, JuneBug, 'Lectric Chicken, Sour Grape...etc. Once the lake starts to stain we rely heavily on bright colors and colors with Orange in them such as Tannic Flo Orange, Cajun Chicken, Albright Special, Sasquatch and Copperhead, the bright colors we use are Bubble Gum and Flo Pink Pepper as examples.
If you don't know what colors to choose check out our Combo Packs, this will save you a lot of time with proven stained and clear water colors. Be sure to check out the archives for December 2024 and see what we were doing this time last year!
Make sure to download the Red Rooster Long Line Trolling Guide for tips on how to troll for Allatoona Crappie.
Verse of the Week: Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.” And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.” And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger. Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child. And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them. ~ Luke 2:8-20.
"Santa Rooster" with a nice keeper Lake Allatoona black crappie caught on a custom 1/24th oz. under spin. Call for these special order jig heads!
Our first Allatoona Crappie was caught on a new color which we are calling "Blue Streak" which is a metallic silver with a blue flake tail. Call to order if interested!
Robbie with a nice keeper crappie caught on a Slab Dragon in Emerald Green. Emerald Green is an old school color and if you need some call to special order!
Big Time Allatoona Black Crappie Caught on the Slab Dragon in the Lemonade Color
A nice Allatoona slab crappie on the Talon 2.0 in the Wildcat Color
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