Rabun Lake Records
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Lake Rabun
Lake Rabun is a twisty 835-acre reservoir with 25 miles of shoreline located in the northeast corner of Georgia in Rabun County. It is the third lake in a six-lake series that follows the original course of the Tallulah River. The series begins with Lake Burton as the northernmost lake, followed by lakes Seed, Rabun, Tallulah Falls, Tugalo and Yonah. These are Georgia Power Co. lakes, built to generate hydroelectric energy. Rabun and these other northeast Georgia mountain lakes offers some fishing opportunities unique to Georgia, where anglers can catch trophy walleye and yellow perch along with traditional species such as bass, crappie and bream.
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Jeff Smith is not one of those people who moved to Georgia and talks about how much better things were where he came from. The Cleveland, Ga. resident can’t brag enough about the state where he moved to four years ago. Now, he has something else to brag about. Jeff’s 1.88-lb. yellow perch caught on…
New lake records are exciting, but when a 12-year-old provides a new benchmark for a fish, it certainly makes the story even better. Colter Cannon, of Clayton, was fishing Lake Rabun on April 23 with his dad Johnathon when he caught a new lake-record black crappie. The slab weighed 2-lbs., 0.16-os. on certified scales at…
On the morning of Oct. 22, Jeff Payne, of Toccoa, caught a black crappie weighing 1-lb., 15-ozs. with a length of 15 1/2 inches on Lake Rabun. It was about 7:30 in the morning when Jeff got to the lake to go fishing. “I usually try to get there before daylight,” said Jeff. Once out on…
Corey Gosnell holds the current Lake Rabun black crappie record with a 1-lb., 14-oz. fish he caught on April 14, 2018.
It was about 1:30 on the afternoon of March 5, 2018 when Jeff Payne caught a record-breaker he’d been seeking for the past three years. Jeff had been fishing on Lake Rabun since daylight on that Monday morning and caught seven fish before he hooked into the large spotted bass. Jeff has been fishing Lake…
Lake Rabun Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 12-lbs., 6-ozs. | Harrison Nix | 06/08/93 |
| Spotted Bass | 6-lbs., 2-ozs. | Jeff Payne | 03/05/18 |
| White Bass | 2-lbs., 4.8-ozs. | Shannon Sutton | 06/05/05 |
| Hybrid Bass | 9-lbs., 8-ozs. | Steve Jones | 04/20/09 |
| Striped Bass | 39-lbs., 14-ozs. | Danny Wall | 03/04/14 |
| Walleye | 14-lbs., 2-ozs.* | Wes Carlton | 02/19/16 |
| Rainbow Trout | 7-lbs., 11-ozs. | James E. Speed | 05/09/06 |
| Northern Pike | 18-lbs., 2-ozs.* | Keith Gragg | 06/27/82 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb., 14-ozs. | Julie Owens | 05/18/94 |
| Yellow Perch | 1-lb., 8.8-ozs. | Jeff Smith | 12/04/22 |
| Black Crappie | 2-lbs., 0.16-ozs. | Colter Cannon | 04/23/22 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 3-ozs. | Whitfield Athey | 05/16/21 |