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popular with anglers who fish to
keep stripers, red ear sun fish, and
crappie, among other varieties.
“It’s a beautiful lake with clean
water,” said Wynne. “It’s fairly
tame, just a beautiful lake all the
way around.”
He said that duck hunters camouflage their boats and themselves
as they hunt on the water during
the duck seasons September-November, December, and January.
Lake Juliette is great for boating, but motors can be no larger than 25 hp.
“We have a real good time
doing it,” said Scott, who estimated
he has been fishing in Lake Juliette
about 24 years altogether. “It’s hard
to explain what drives a fisherman.”
Georgia Department of Natural
Resources conservation ranger
Tony Wynne sees a lot of activity
around Lake Juliette even during the months from October to
February while the campground is
closed. He said the winter months
provide some prime fishing. As
well as the sport fishing for large
mouth bass, Lake Juliette is
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Terry Johnson, retired Program
Manager of the Georgia NongameEndangered Wildlife Program who
writes the popular Monroe County
Outdoors column for The Reporter
weekly, knows the 8,500 acres of
the Rum Creek preserve that surround Lake Juliette well. The acreage is owned by the companies
that built Lake Juliette to provide
water to cool Plant Scherer, the
largest coal-fired power-generating
plant in Georgia.
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