Fishing Boat Hits Rowing Shell on Lake Lanier

Rowing is an elegant sport.  It’s marvelous to watch sportsmen working in unison as they glide a shell of a boat — that appears to be a large pencil cut in half from end to end — across Lake Lanier or the Chattahoochee River. Spectators often wonder …

Lake Lanier’s Corps of Engineers Website

  I have good news and I have bad news. First, the bad news.  All your old links to Lake Lanier’s Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Web pages are toast.  Broken.  404.  Vaporized and otherwise lost.  Sorry. Here’s the good news!  The USACE has updated …

Special Event Permits for Lake Lanier

You and I are not as rich as rich people, so we probably won’t ever face the enormous struggle of trying to rent Lake Lanier for our own personal party.  But if we win the lottery or figure out how to turn kudzu into gold, …

State Park Lodges in North GA

You probably figure that I get free rooms and free meals at places like the fabulous State Park lodges in North Georgia.  After all, I am world famous. (OK, so I’m not very famous, but these links are available globally.  Lighten up.) That’s not working very …

Shane Watson’s Lake Lanier Fishing Report (01-08-2013)

Trophy Stripers on Lake Lanier January is here and that means it’s time to drag big trout around for a trophy striper. Over the next four months, you will see most of your 35+ pound fish caught on Lanier for the year. That’s not to …

Body Found in Lake Lanier

We regret to inform you of the death of Robert Armistead. According to the latest information provided to lakelanier.com by Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Communications/Outreach Specialist Melissa Cummings, Mr. Armistead was 55 and lived in Hoschton, GA. Shortly after 10 AM on Sunday morning, …

Lanier’s Sawnee Campground Open All Winter

Ranger Andrea Wagner, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s (USACE) campground manager for Lake Lanier, has good news for us.  For the first time, one of the lake’s campgrounds will be open all winter. Ranger Wagner tells us Sawnee Campground, near Buford Dam, will remain open …

Database of Open Boat Ramps on Lake Lanier

Our friend Nick Baggett — US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Lake Lanier Natural Resource Manager — kindly sent lakelanier.com links to the updated USACE website. Nick’s help makes the search for open boat ramps on Lake Lanier a simple process.  You won’t have to rely on rumors …

Open Boat Ramps on Lake Lanier

Five years ago today, Lake Lanier sunk (sank?) to its lowest level — 1,050.79 feet above sea level. Today, Lake Lanier stands at 1057.28, according to USLakes.info.  That’s 12.72 feet below “winter full pool” — even though USLakes.info says Lanier is down 13.72 feet. Depending …