I have been fishing the docks of Lake Lanier Ga, with no success for the past five afternoons. I have tried everthing from Clousers to Deciever’s to Buggers’ to nymphs. Please if anyone has had any success with this problem please help me out.
good to hear from you again. in order to help you out with this, what are you fishing for? any idea what the water temp was? and was the water clear? and how big is the body of water?
last week though, i was going after bluegill on a small pond, the surface temp was pretty warm, and the water was a bit cloudy, and i couldnt find anything that would produce consistently but i had the most hits on a grey size 8 hares ear nymph with a soft hackle right behind the thorax. had a few hits on a size 10 yellow popper. i also tried a black and red Boa yarn leech, a scud, a chironomid, and a size 14 copper john but only got 1 or 2 hits on each of them.
Bass, 67, somewhat clear, very large
I have only been to Lake Lanier once but never got to fish it. Big reservoir lake for Atlanta. That is where Atlanta gets its water. It is a “BIG” water for sure. TVA just fills in a big valley for a reservoir lake. Wish I could help but I didn’t Bass fish much when I was up there. I was closer to Lake Chatuge and Lake Burton but only did some bream fishing at Lake Chatuge. I spent most of my fishing chasing mountain stream trout. Send a PM to (deathb4disco). He lives in Atlanta and might be able to help.
if youre fishing from about 2 feet deep to around 10 feet id say go with a popper or a dahlburg diver in either white, or perch or bluegill colors. around 5 feet to 20 id go with a worm imitation, a clouser, deciever, really any sinking minnow imitation. id say try lighter colors on all. chartreuse over white is really a universal color scheme. and a crawdad, depending on the sink rate could be effective in any depth. and really any of those flies you can do in any depth, but with the depths i said, they seem to work well and to me anyways it just seems logical. there may be others who disagree.
try a J.J.Special for pattern, http://www.highcountryflies.com
click on fly tying on top header then find j.j.special click again
works for me on smallies,trout,steelhead,and walleye Jeff
I’ve never fished Lanier but I assume that it isn’t too different from Lake Hartwell in SC since we are only a hop, skip, and a jump away. With all that water around, a huge percentage is not going to contain fish. You have to find the fish. They will not come to you no matter what type of fly you are using. Another challenge you face is that your flies don’t get down into the water column. Flies work well in the top five feet and generally miss the very productive bottom. My best advice would be to try and move around if you can either by foot or some type of boat. Fish visible cover like rocks, downed trees and weeds if you can find any. Points and humps are also good. Try early mornings or evening. The main thing is don’t give up. Brim fishing is also getting very good right now in flat, shallow coves. Try some smaller flies like Gurgle Pops or Griffth Gnats for some real fun. Good luck! If all else fails see if you can get permission to fish some smaller, local farm ponds. They are much easier fishing 8T 
Hi Flytying13,
I’ve got one more suggestion about fishing docks in big lakes. Last night I was fishing Lake Hartwell and walking the shoreline looking for fish. Walking was easy since the water level is still down 8 feet. In the fading light and with the low water, I could clearly see that one of the docks had a forest of sunken Christmas trees around it. Fishing from the shore line since docks are private property, I was able to land a fine two and a half pound LMB after a very exciting fight. Not all docks are created equal in terms of holding fish. Look for those that show signs of having brush piles to hold fish. Good luck and keep fishing! 8T
Flytying13yearold, so did you get a chance to go out again? how did you do if you did? hope ya did well.