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Lake Worth
Lake Worth, also known as Lake Chehaw, is a small reservoir at the confluence of the Flint River, Kinchafoonee Creek and Muckalee Creek. The concrete Flint River Dam was built in 1908 for hydroelectric generation and is owned by Georgia Power today. Lake Chehaw is very riverine and shallow with average depths of 17 feet. In winter, the lake is drawn down nearly 10 feet in anticipation of flooding spring rains. In the Flood of 1994, the lake overflowed its banks and the dam itself was underwater at one point.
Lake Worth/Chehaw Resources
Georgia Fishing Articles
Some striper anglers on Lanier stow their rods in the summer and wait for cooler temperatures and less traffic on the lake. They prefer to stalk the big linesides up in the shallows during the cooler months when the fish tend to be in the creeks and are more accessible to casting and shallow trolling.…
So far this summer, the Georgia coast has produced two new state records for Georgia anglers, a women’s state record for tiger shark and a men’s state record for red grouper. Pam Page, of Savannah, was fishing near artificial reef JY, about 20 miles due east of St. Catherine’s Island, on June 3 when she…
Justin Tomlinson caught this 37-lb., 14.7-oz. lake-record flathead catfish on West Point Lake on July 4, 2012. Flatheads first start showing up in substantial numbers on West Point Lake around 2002, when hybrid anglers starting catching them up the Chattahoochee River during the spring lineside run. In a 2008 article detailing how to catch West…
Paradise Public Fishing Area (PFA) near Tifton is a cornucopia for anglers. Boasting more than 60 lakes and ponds that range in size from 1/4 to 112 acres spread across the sprawling 1,341-acre tract, you can find just about any warm-water angling experience you want. By the same token, anglers’ eyes bug out the first…
Will Carpenter caught this 6-lb., 1.6-oz. lake-record largemouth on Lake Yonah on June 14, 2012. UPDATE: Will’s Yonah lake record was broken on June 13, 2018 with a 6-lb., 11-oz. bass. If you catch a Yonah largemouth that might break the established lake record, please get the bass weighed on certified scales with witnesses, and…
Record Fish Lake Worth Upstream To Blackshear Dam
| White Crappie | 2-lbs., 0-ozs. | Angelo Feros | 01/14/2013 |
| Shoal Bass | 8-lbs., 5-ozs. | Clark Wheeler | 04/16/2022 |