Bass Fishing in Georgia

from the preface:
Like many anglers in Georgia, I began my lifelong romance with fishing by dunking earthworms in small ponds for bream, but my biggest thrill was catching the occasional largemouth bass that took my bait. Those early encounters eventually led to fishing ventures specifically dedicated to catching bass. The largemouth bass is the very essence of what a game fish should be: big, strong, vicious in its attack, yet sometimes finicky enough to drive an angler to distraction. To most Southerners, catching a largemouth is the ultimate challenge. In the ensuing thirty years, I have tempted bass with live baits and lures strung on baitcasting, spinning, and even fly-casting equipment. My fishing has included most of the reservoirs and rivers of Georgia. But, there are many others who have spent far more time and energy in pursuit and study of bass fishing than I ever will, so I did not set out to write a book devoted to explaining how to catch bass. This book is intended instead as a guide to the places in Georgia where anglers can try to catch bass from waters open to the general public - twenty-six major reservoirs of roughly 1,000 acres or larger, discussed in detail with a chapter devoted to each one. Lakes of 200 acres to 1,000 acres are mentioned briefly in one chapter. To cover the publicly-owned ponds that are smaller than 200 acres would turn this book into an encyclopedic work.