Theirs lake spivey but it's a private lake. Anyone know any good fishing spots around this area?

Plenty of them. Clayton County Water Authority has a few lakes. I prefer JW Smith. Fayette County has Lake Horton and Lake Kedron. Henry County has a bunch of good lakes but you have to be a Henry County resident to fish them or know someone who is that is willing to take you. Thats just the ones I fish. There is an article I helped outdoor writer Don Baldwin with in this months Georgia Sportman Magazine which has contact info and directions to many of the small lakes I fish around Atlanta as well as some fishing tips for each one. It's found in most Walmarts and grocery stores. If you do a search on here you may find some of my old reports for some of these lakes also.

Thanks for the info. Which one do you think is the best for bank fishing? I'm a poor college student with no boat. I have family that lives in Henry county to so I can get the pass or whatever I need.

JW Smith in Clayton County has good bank access and cost five dollars a day to fish. I don't know where or even if they allow bank fishing in the Henry County Lakes and you would have to have somone with you that lives there while you fish since they check your drivers license. Lake Kedron has some bank access at the park at the boat ramp. It wouldn't be bad in summer since the grass there will hold more fish close to the bank. Horton is $10 to park and they love to write parking tickets and nay other tickets they can find to write. I have one now I have to go to court for where I paid to park, put the parking pass on my dash, and still somehow got a ticket left on my window.    They have a reputation for this kind of thing there so it may not be the best place for a broke college student but there is a good stretch of bank there to fish.

Alright this week im going to check out Jw smith. Do you have any tips concerning location around the lake? On google earth I saw a bridge that may have some fish underneath.

Between the two boat ramps there is a huge rock area on the bank where the bank is rock going into the water. There is deep water just off the bank here and I can usually catch fish here from a boat. That bridge may be off limits from the bank since there is a water intake there and in all the years I have fished the lake I have never seen anyone under it except in a boat. Right off the point at the second boat ramp near the bridge wouldn't be bad either.

Well I went to JW smith this morning. I did not catch anything but I saw a couple of carp in the water. I didn't think this lake had carp. I saw the rocky drop offs you mentioned but had no luck.

i think i might try out jw smith. that part of the new reservoir that opened up? if it is. my sisters fiance's dad has been up there alot wearing them out.

Plenty of them. Clayton County Water Authority has a few lakes. I prefer JW Smith. Fayette County has Lake Horton and Lake Kedron. Henry County has a bunch of good lakes but you have to be a Henry County resident to fish them or know someone who is that is willing to take you. Thats just the ones I fish. There is an article I helped outdoor writer Don Baldwin with in this months Georgia Sportman Magazine which has contact info and directions to many of the small lakes I fish around Atlanta as well as some fishing tips for each one. It's found in most Walmarts and grocery stores. If you do a search on here you may find some of my old reports for some of these lakes also.

what are some of the "Henry County" lakes you are talking about. im a HC resident, didnt know there were specific lakes i could fish just being a resident...

Tussahaw is the Henry County lake that is open now that is the best. They just closed one this year that was a killer lake this time of year last year. :'( I think the Henry County Water Authority has a website with the lakes listed and when they are open.

i think i might try out jw smith. that part of the new reservoir that opened up? if it is. my sisters fiance's dad has been up there alot wearing them out.

JW Smith is not new...you may be thinking of another lake.