Best: Dec - Feb
3 months ago
$150
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Lake James can just be darn right brutal on a fisherman! Deep water, so many small pockets, long points, good looking shoreline but these keys will unlock the lake for big smallies and #’s of smallies through early April! Multiple Baits, Locations and patterns to help you have a DREAM DAY
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6 Specific coordinates
Full breakdown of patterns, techniques, and lures
Weather and conditions report
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Below is the current Lake James weather information to help you plan your next Lake James fishing trip. Need more specifics? Try sending a message to Austin Neary to let them know what kind of tips you are looking for to help you prepare for a successful time on the water.
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30+ Smallmouth! The Keys to unlocking Lake James GOLDEN SMALLIES
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FishTips began with fishing guides and top tournament anglers posting tips that were detailed game plans on exactly how they would guide someone. Guides take anglers to fishing spots on every trip, so creating a digital version of a guide trip on FishTips was a natural way for guides to guide, train, and educate even more anglers online. Perhaps their boat broke down, had a bad weather day, or it was the offseason, the FishTips platform attracted hundreds of digital fishing guides that wanted to provide their same high level of customer experience and deep knowledge of their fisheries in a digital format to help even more anglers! As we grew, we received feedback from both digital guides and customers for other types of informative fishing products to help anglers stay up to date on their fisheries or learn new places to fish. We are excited to now offer premium subscription channels for the latest fishing updates and hyper-current fishing reports. FishTips also has training videos for digital guides to share in-depth videos on exactly how they approach a fishery or how they break it down before they even get there.
Yes, you can view all of the digital guide trip tips, premium fishing reports updates, and training videos on Austin Neary's FishTips profile here.
Check out the dedicated Lake James page for the full list of Lake James fishing reports, fishing guides, digital guide trip tips, and instructional fishing videos → here
The FishTips digital guides offering guided fishing services will have "guide" listed with their profile and will have a "book a trip" button at the top of their profile. This will send them a message for you to ask them for their available dates for you to book a fishing guide trip on Lake James directly with the fishing guide.
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Check out the dedicated Lake James page for the full list of Lake James fishing guides, digital guide trip tips, fishing reports, and instructional fishing videos → here
100% rating
(4 reviews)
Josh R
Apr 12, 2024 (edited)
Larson M
Apr 11, 2024 (edited)
Very helpful
Lee E
Apr 1, 2024
The tip gave me confidence that I was in the right areas doing the right thing. After we stuck the first biggie we were able build upon that and catch a lot of big fish.
Adam B
May 18, 2023 (edited)
This tip was super informative! It allowed me to catch more fish because I didn't waste time trying to figure out what was working that day. Amazing!
Best: Dec - Feb
3 months ago
$150
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3 months ago
$175
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6 months ago
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8 months ago
$90
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11 months ago
$100
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12 months ago
$160
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1 year ago
$110
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1 year ago
$125
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over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
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