A Fisherman's Paradise called Lake Ramona

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It’s the unexpected, magical things in life that keep you excited about it. There’s always something special that you can find in your backyard that makes you realize how lucky you are to be in such proximity to it.

Lake Ramona is such a place. I was surprised how close it was to my own house. Serenity is just a short drive away from my humble abode. This man-made lake was built by William Abner “Bill” Waters and his family. After four years of construction, he opened it up to the public in the summer of 1968.

A Fisherman’s Paradise

They sponsor community events like “Fishing Day,” a favorite family activity where youngsters get the opportunity to learn to fish as I did during my trip to Jackson Hole a few summers ago. They will provide a couple of loaner poles, but it’s best to bring your own along with bait. The old bait and tackle shop (which is still on the property) isn’t currently in business.

A family of four can fish for around $30 all day, or they will charge $10 per adult and $5 per kid. Since it’s on private land, no fishing license is necessary. While the staff is on hand to assist, it’s never a bad idea to bring a life jacket with you given that you will be on the edge of the lake. You will find the lake is adequately stocked with loads of catfish, crappie, and bass. Check out these photos from lucky fishermen:

It’s worth the effort to get to know the town that you live in and attempt to discover points of interest close by. It’s even more critical to seek out inexpensive activities that your entire family will enjoy, like the lovely Lake Ramona.

Contact them at:

Lake Ramona
141 Waters Road
Hiram, Ga 30141

404-374-7172

email at [email protected] or [email protected]

This is the second in a series of infrequent articles that spotlights Hidden Treasures within a city that are usually overlooked by the locals. We will be searching for some of the best little known secrets from every city imaginable. Lean closer and tell me what’s special about yours…….

Blake Barber says

August 28, 2019 at 12:16 am

I’m 42 years old now and live in North Florida but I was raise through most of my early childhood in Hiram Georgia and fished Lake Ramona many times in fact when I was a boy in my Cub Scout troop had an annual fishing tournament that we held at Lake Ramona the first year that I can remember participating My dad took my brother-in-law self to the tournament … now the prizes for the tournament were set up in a multi-tiered sort of way there was a prize for the largest fish the heaviest stringer a fish lose coverage price however what’s the prize for the most overall number of fish just want everybody really want to win to be the kid went out and caught more fish than anyone else… Granted Italian fish would be A collective count of each individual fishing with any given Cub Scout troop number so myself my dad and my brothers if beach fish we caught would have been considered the score for our “team“…

My dad knew how badly we wanted to win that particular ribbon so while everyone else is making their way to the banks of the lake proper, my dad was born and raised in Hiram Georgia I knew the lay of the land around that town as well as anybody did snuck my brother and I off to the lakes spillway which is basically an overflow feature that allows water to flow off of the lake to keep the lake at a certain level if I understand the engineer incorrectly flowing into a creek or canal type situation …but it also does something else…it creates a choke point in overall system of water flow for the lake that becomes a point of congregation for lots and lots of fish a place where for the competition for food is apparently quite fierce !!! Now I won’t say that everyone of them were the biggest fish you’ve ever seen in your life …but all keepers ….and we caught 77 fish that day !!!my dad had taken us to the only spot tailor-made for a guaranteed win of the most prestigious ribbon and trophy of the Cub Scouts fishing tournament!!? we fished until we ran out of bait and then we dropped bare hooks in the water in the fish hit this too!!!

One of my most fond childhood memories and many lessons learned that day we took the fish home in a cooler full of lake water and all of those are his survive the trip we released into the freshwater creek on our property… And all the ones that didn’t which unfortunately and as you can imagine where is the vast majority of them Daddy made us clean them all placed them in freezer bags in the freezer and as my brother and I did this my dad use that as an opportunity to talk to us about conservation of resources and you never take anything from the land of the water that you don’t intend to honor its life by using it to enrich or nourish your own which he reinforced by denying all of our subsequent please to make this fish the last one we had to clean and just discard the rest that was the day that I learned that even sometimes when the fish are still biting it is actually time to go we fished Lake Ramona several more times before we packed up and moved to Florida I don’t recall ever having to pay to fish there however it seems a reasonable course of action To offset the impact of more visitors and the ultimate need for funding to maintain the property for public use i to offset the impact of more visitors and the ultimate need for funding to maintain the property for public use…Just wanted to share my story of Lake Ramona after completely randomly stumbling across this really cool write up about a place that meant so much to me as a child

Comments

Blake Barber says
August 28, 2019 at 12:16 am
I’m 42 years old now and live in North Florida but I was raise through most of my early childhood in Hiram Georgia and fished Lake Ramona many times in fact when I was a boy in my Cub Scout troop had an annual fishing tournament that we held at Lake Ramona the first year that I can remember participating My dad took my brother-in-law self to the tournament … now the prizes for the tournament were set up in a multi-tiered sort of way there was a prize for the largest fish the heaviest stringer a fish lose coverage price however what’s the prize for the most overall number of fish just want everybody really want to win to be the kid went out and caught more fish than anyone else… Granted Italian fish would be A collective count of each individual fishing with any given Cub Scout troop number so myself my dad and my brothers if beach fish we caught would have been considered the score for our “team“…
My dad knew how badly we wanted to win that particular ribbon so while everyone else is making their way to the banks of the lake proper, my dad was born and raised in Hiram Georgia I knew the lay of the land around that town as well as anybody did snuck my brother and I off to the lakes spillway which is basically an overflow feature that allows water to flow off of the lake to keep the lake at a certain level if I understand the engineer incorrectly flowing into a creek or canal type situation …but it also does something else…it creates a choke point in overall system of water flow for the lake that becomes a point of congregation for lots and lots of fish a place where for the competition for food is apparently quite fierce !!! Now I won’t say that everyone of them were the biggest fish you’ve ever seen in your life …but all keepers ….and we caught 77 fish that day !!!my dad had taken us to the only spot tailor-made for a guaranteed win of the most prestigious ribbon and trophy of the Cub Scouts fishing tournament!!? we fished until we ran out of bait and then we dropped bare hooks in the water in the fish hit this too!!!
One of my most fond childhood memories and many lessons learned that day we took the fish home in a cooler full of lake water and all of those are his survive the trip we released into the freshwater creek on our property… And all the ones that didn’t which unfortunately and as you can imagine where is the vast majority of them Daddy made us clean them all placed them in freezer bags in the freezer and as my brother and I did this my dad use that as an opportunity to talk to us about conservation of resources and you never take anything from the land of the water that you don’t intend to honor its life by using it to enrich or nourish your own which he reinforced by denying all of our subsequent please to make this fish the last one we had to clean and just discard the rest that was the day that I learned that even sometimes when the fish are still biting it is actually time to go we fished Lake Ramona several more times before we packed up and moved to Florida I don’t recall ever having to pay to fish there however it seems a reasonable course of action To offset the impact of more visitors and the ultimate need for funding to maintain the property for public use i to offset the impact of more visitors and the ultimate need for funding to maintain the property for public use…Just wanted to share my story of Lake Ramona after completely randomly stumbling across this really cool write up about a place that meant so much to me as a child
- Renee King says
  August 28, 2019 at 1:13 pm
  Blake, what an awesome story!! Thank you so much for sharing. You were lucky to have such an amazing dad who was instrumental in creating these beautiful memories that you’ve carried for a lifetime. I will have to find that spillway one of these days! HAHA!!