Lake Lanier striper fishing reports from Captain Ron Mullins, covering monthly conditions, seasonal patterns, and what the fish were doing throughout each month on Lake Lanier. While the weekly conditions reports capture what is happening right now, these monthly reports provide the bigger picture – how conditions evolved across the month, what patterns held, and what changed as the season progressed.
Each monthly report draws on Captain Ron’s 18+ years of experience on Lake Lanier and reflects actual time on the water across multiple trips. If you want to understand how Lake Lanier striper fishing changes from month to month – water temperature trends, depth transitions, seasonal bait movements, and pattern shifts – this is your reference.
Monthly reports pair with the weekly conditions reports to give you both the immediate picture and the seasonal context behind it.
August 2020 Lake Lanier Fishing Report Summer fishing on Lake Lanier is in full swing and it is awesome. We see huge schools of fish in their normal summertime haunts and they are moving out of the pockets and into the south end creek channels like Big, Shoal, Two, Four, Six Mile and Bald Ridge. […]
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June 2020 Lake Lanier Fishing Report Lake Lanier is at 1071.58, .58 feet above full pool and the water temperatures are in the high 60s to low 70s. The water is clear water lake wide. June is a big transition month. The striper top water bite will be over and the fish will be moving
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May 2020 Lake Lanier Striper Fishing Report It’s May and we are so grateful to be back on the water with our wonderful customers. The spawn is wrapping up and the fish are moving back south out of the river systems and from the backs of the main free flowing creeks on the south end
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March 2020 Lake Lanier Fishing Report The weather is warming up and the fishing is good! Now is time to break out your Capt. Mack’s Perfect Planer Boards and fish your herring and small to medium gizzard shad much higher in the water column. The bait will begin to relate more to the upper 10
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February 2020 Lake Lanier Fishing Report The new year is off to a great start with a winter bite that is the best it has been in years. It has been as good as or better than our summer bite. Large schools of fish are being found all over the lake from Bald Ridge, Shoal,
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January 2020 Lake Lanier Striper Fishing Report Striper fishing is good right now and will continue to be good through January both mid lake and north up the rivers. You will find stripers in a variety of water depths, but the most consistent bite will be in 40 to 60 feet of water with downlines.
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November 2019 Lake Lanier Striper Fishing Report The water level is 4.3 feet down and the water temperature is chilly at 68-72 degrees. The turnover is almost finished at as it finishes, fish will be caught all over the lake. The kitchen sink fishing will continue and topwater plugs, Capt. Mack’s Super Spoons and Mini
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September 2019 Lake Lanier Striper Fishing Report The easiest way to catch stripers this month will be trolling lead core and pulling any of Capt. Mack’s jigs and trailers. The standard 1.5-oz Chipmunk in white/silver, white/chartreuse or chartreuse/blue are your best bets. Either 4-inch shad bodies or 6-inch u-tail trailers in white, chartreuse or pink
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August 2019 Lake Lanier Striper Fishing Report Most of the stripers have pushed down the lake and are in their normal summertime haunts. South end creek channels like Big, Shoal, Two, Four, Six Mile and Bald Ridge all have fish in them. In early August, there will still be some fish in main-lake pockets in
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July 2019 Lake Lanier Striper Fishing Report July striper fishing on Lanier means huge schools of fish in deep water on the south end of the lake. These fish will be found from Brown’s Bridge to the dam in deep drainages, creek and river channels in 40 to 60 feet of water early in the
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