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Flint River
The Flint River begins its journey south toward Lake Seminole with headwaters at the Atlanta airport. The Flint River is one of only 40 rivers in the nation to flow more than 200 miles unimpeded by dams or other manmade structures, the first dam being the Lake Blackshear dam about 15 miles upstream of Albany. The upper Flint as it flows through the Thomaston and Talbot County area offers a unique and very good fishery for shoal bass. The lower Flint flows through fertile farm country through Georgia's top big-buck counties, and below Lake Blackshear the Flint again offers great shoal bass fishing. At the Lake Seminole dam, the Flint River combines with other tributaries and forms the Apalachicola River below the dam.
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Pylodictis olivaris is the scientific name for a flathead catfish. In layman’s terms, it’s best described as a cold-blooded killer. These fish grow to enormous sizes, with the state record currently sitting at a tie with two behemoths on record weighing in at an impressive 83 pounds each. Throw in the fact that even larger…
The scenery would almost make you think that you were in the north Georgia mountains fishing for trout. You have everything that you could imagine on such a trip. There is water rushing down a free-flowing river with a gentle roar as it tumbles through the rocks and shoals. The river banks and granite hillsides…
Kristen Brown caught a 10-oz. shadow bass on the Flint River on June 1, 2016, and in doing so Kristen established a new species that is now recognized for record status in Georgia. Kristen, of Baconton, set a new state record for shadow bass, catching the 9 1/4-inch fish on the Flint River in Albany.…
A Cordele man recently caught a longnose gar from the Flint River that would have eclipsed the sportfishing world record, had it been weighed on certified scales. The 5-foot, 7 1/4-inch long fish was caught by Jerry Pheil of Cordele. Jerry said that on the morning of February 25 he was fishing in the Flint…
Do me a favor. Get in your car and drive an hour in any direction. Then tell me what you see. Odds are you’ll hit some water somewhere along the way. We are blessed in the South to have an abundance of water. Sometimes we take for granted just how lucky we are. There are…
Flint River Record Fish
| Striped Bass | 48-lbs., 5-ozs. | John Hoffpauir Jr. | 05/20/83 |
| Shoal Bass | 8-lbs., 3-ozs.* | David Hubbard | 10/77 |
| Flathead Catfish | 43-lbs. | Tiff Thompson | 04/13/12 |
| Longnose Gar | 28-lbs., 6-ozs. | Richard Johnson | 01/95 |
| Shadow Bass | 10-ozs. | Kristen Brown | 06/01/16 |
| Black Crappie | 2-lbs., 5.44-ozs. | Jerrod Brown | 03/04/21 |