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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A 14-lb., 2-oz. walleye caught Friday, Feb. 19 at Lake Rabun has been certified as a new state record. Guide Wes Carlton, one of GON‘s long-time fishing report contributors, caught the fish during a trip to Rabun with one of his regular customers and a mutual friend. “We started out that morning fishing for largemouth,”…
The Lake Rabun striper record has been smashed with a 39-lb., 14-oz. fish that beats the old record by nearly 20 pounds. The fish was caught on March 4 by Danny Wall, of Lakemont. "It was just a matter of being in the right place at the right time, I guess," Danny told GON on…
In the northeast corner of the state, just a few miles as the crow flies from both Tennessee and South Carolina, you’ll find a beautiful little lake sitting snug in the mountain tops. With only 25 miles of shoreline and 835 acres dam to dam, Lake Rabun is not a real eye catcher if you…
A new lake-record hybrid mark was set on April 20, 2009 when Steve Jones, of Lakemount, reeled in a 9-lb., 8-oz. hybrid bass from Lake Rabun. Hybrid bass are a hatchery-made cross between white bass and striped bass. Hybrids are more warm-water tolerant and do much better than stripers in reservoirs that don’t have cold-water…
The summer of 2005 began on Georgia’s lakes the way most summers do. Anglers, skiers, and pleasure boaters took to the water in droves as temperatures warmed. And until the last week of June, there had been very few accidents. However, in a 10-day stretch between June 20 and July 1, three separate boating accidents…
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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 |