Black Pond Fishing near Clarkesville, Georgia

• Overview

  Within Habersham County, Georgia, you have Black Pond. Everything around it is dry hill. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Georgia listings. Clarkesville is the closest town at 4.9 miles. The big place round here is Athens, 47 miles distant. Near neighbours include: Habersham Mills Lake at 3.8 miles, Ash Pond 4 miles, Warner Pond at 4.4 miles, Pless Pond 5 miles and Webster Lake at 5.9 miles. Being near a boundary, it pays to know which side you are fishing.

• Where to Fish on Black Pond

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Look for where the old bank line still shows under the surface. The old creek line under the surface is the feature worth finding. Habersham County records list largemouth bass, bluegill, spotted bass and gizzard shad among the fish reported. Those are county-wide records, so not every one of them will be in this water. Fish Black Pond where the bottom changes rather than where it looks deep.

• Seasonal Patterns

  Averages here run 76°F at the top of summer and 39°F at the bottom of winter. Winter is a mild inconvenience here, nothing more. October and November give a second good stretch as it cools. Late winter often fishes better here than midsummer does. Black Pond fishes to that pattern most years.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. Mapping shows an empty shoreline: no ramp, no jetty, no marked entry. Bass water: a Texas-rigged worm near cover, a spinnerbait when you need to cover ground. Check whether a boat is allowed before you tow one. Some stretches are reserved and marked as such on the ground. Habersham Mills Lake, 3.8 miles away, makes the obvious fallback. Treat access at Black Pond as something to verify.