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Etowah River
The Etowah River is a 164-mile-long river that begins northwest of Dahlonega, Georgia.
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The below article and video first aired in June 1999 with striper angler Glenn Brown, GON writer Lindsay Thomas Jr. and GON-TV cameraman Eric Thornton. Join them for an amazing day of fish catching on the Coosa River more than 20 years ago. Subscribe to GON’s Youtube channel. “If a location is going to produce…
With the Georgia State Kayak Bass Championship coming up in less than a week, you can bet competitors are firmly focused on their planning—from pre-fishing to studying lake maps to reading old GON lake reports. This post is your one-stop for all the information on this year’s event. Before we get into all the good…
A striper caught 24 years ago from the Etowah River has surfaced and claimed the “new” river record for this northwest Georgia river. Keith Cole, of Aragon, was thumbing through his February 2019 issue of GON when he came across the latest printing of GON‘s Georgia Lake and River Records. On page 82, he saw…
Joe Frank Harris Jr., of Cartersville, was spending a late-summer evening on the Etowah River on Aug. 21 when he successfully boated a 33-lb. striper and became the river’s new record holder. Joe was in the boat with his father-in-law Tom Gurley and fishing guide Nathan Cooper. “It is a memory that plays slowly over…
Despite Hurricane Michael sweeping across most of south and central Georgia, the 2018 Georgia Kayak Bass Fishing State Championship was held Oct. 13-14 on the Etowah River and Lake Allatoona. The two-day tournament hosted 40 anglers representing four clubs—Chattahoochee Kayak Anglers (West Point/Columbus), East Central Georgia Kayak Anglers (Augusta/East Georgia), Peach State Kayak Anglers (Atlanta/Statewide) and…
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Etowah River Records
| Largemouth Bass | 7-lbs., 7.68-ozs. | Eric Black | 01/27/2016 |
| Flathead Catfish | 38-lbs., 0.8-ozs. | John Morgado | 05/17/2022 |
| Blue Catfish | 50-lbs. | Seth Shoults | 04/21/23 |
| Striped Bass | 38-lbs. | Keith Cole | 05/1994 |
| Yellow Perch | 1-lb., 10.2-ozs. | Eric Black | 01/14/2015 |
| Longnose Gar | 19-lbs., 4.64-ozs. | Kyle Williams | 08/08/2018 |
| Spotted Bass | 4-lbs., 0.5-ozs. | Jackson Sibley | 03/21/2022 |
| Rainbow Trout | 2-lbs. | Todd West | 10/01/2020 |
| Channel Catfish | 7-lbs. | Seth Shoults | 04/21/23 |