Posts by Capt. Bert Deener
Southeast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – April 18, 2025
Get ready for some great fishing over the next month as the water warms and rivers drop out to perfect levels. The Okefenokee, ponds and St Marys River are great locations for this weekend, but different sections of some other rivers are getting right. Saltwater tides will be reasonable late this week, but they are…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – April 18, 2025
Springtime fishing is here. Bass are in all stages of the spawn. Early spawners are done and feeding up ahead of summer heat, and some species are just starting to spawn. Fun stuff, but sometimes difficult to pick a bite. If you pick right, it’s a blast! But if you don’t, then it could be…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – April 11, 2025
I’ve not been around a lot this week due to fishing in the Everglades, but the reports I did receive were good. The rivers are getting back down and those bites are heating up at different rates. Guess right and you could be in for a great day! Altamaha River: Seth Carter fished the backwaters…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – April 4, 2025
Fishing is heating up with the current warm-up! The flatwater produced the best reports this week. Rivers are still high but are getting fishable. Alapaha River: The exciting news from the river this week was an Angler Award and new river record channel catfish caught by Christopher Quiggins. He fooled the giant with a minnow.…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – March 28, 2025
The reports were as varied as the weather this week. The best reports came from ponds and the Okefenokee Swamp. Saltwater was hit-and-miss. The southeast Georgia rivers are still high but are falling now that the leaves have budded out and the trees are pulling more water. St. Marys River: The Temple Landing is currently…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – March 21, 2025
Freshwater is heating up in the flat waters. Rivers are still mostly high, but some stretches and backwaters will be fishable soon. The Okefenokee is high, but the bite has still been good. Very few people fished the brine with the strong winds and bigger tides earlier in the weekend. Savannah River: Mark Vick fished…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – March 14, 2025
The bites have been good, especially before this past weekend’s big rains in southeast Georgia. Now the rivers are booming and lakes and the swamp are high. Even so, if you choose carefully, you can get on a good bite. St. Marys River: Sammy Gaskins went to the river on Friday before the big rains…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – Feb. 28, 2025
The weather has been great for most of this week. The Okefenokee Swamp, saltwater and ponds have produced the best catches from the reports I received. St. Marys River: Seth Carter fished the river on Sunday and caught some bass. Matt Rouse reported that the upper river is still in good shape but a little…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – Feb. 21, 2025
Winter is back, so it is up to judging how much of a warm-up behind a front will get the fish biting again. Some folks got on good bites in both salt and freshwater, while others did not put all the pieces together. This week’s rains have all of the south Georgia rivers rising—some are…
Read MoreSoutheast Georgia Fishing Reports With Capt. Bert Deener – Feb. 14, 2025
The warm-up that is coming to an end as I write this has been great for most bites. A few trips this week were a bust because of what I call the “it’s just too pretty” factor. Sometimes the fish don’t know whether they’re in a winter or spring pattern, and they are hard to…
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