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Ogeechee River
The Ogeechee River begins its 294-mile trek toward the coast with headwaters in Taliaferro County near Crawfordville. The Ogeechee offers very good fishing for redbreast and also for bass, catfish and crappie. The blackwater river is a free-flowing stream, one of few significant rivers remaining with no dams.
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Ogeechee River Articles
Size is relative, and when it comes to a southeast Georgia river fish, 12 ounces was just enough to set a new bar as the biggest ever recorded from state waters. Jamie Boyett, of Portal, went redbreast fishing on June 15, 2024, with his 8-year-old son, Brannen, on the Ogeechee River, and turns out a…
DNR Fisheries staff recently captured non-native flathead catfish while sampling in the Ogeechee River. WRD staff conducts annual catfish sampling in coastal rivers to monitor native species and detect any potential non-native species. In December 2021, a single flathead was caught by a commercial fisherman. Until then, no flatheads had been reported in…
Born and raised on the banks of the Satilla River, I will admit that I’m more than a little biased when it comes to my favorite river. Heck, a week ago I’d tell you another river couldn’t come close to the Satilla in terms of a redbreast fishery. All that changed last month on my…
Glenn Settles knew the process quite well when he boated a big channel catfish. He would have to get this fish to a set of registered scales, contact the WRD for species confirmation and have two unrelated witnesses who would agree to testify to what they saw. And, if at all possible, he wanted to…
After one of the warmest early springs I can remember, a series of mini cold fronts have blanketed the state for the past couple of weeks. Currently, as I’m typing this, I can see the last bit of frost melting off the hood of my pickup truck in the backyard. But, on the TV in…
Ogeechee Fishing Reports
The fish are starting to move out of their summer patterns and move around more. It can be good and bad. It’s good because they feed better than in their mid-summer mode, but it’s sometimes hard to find them in the fall. Altamaha/Ocmulgee River:– My prediction in last week’s report about the Ocmulgee was correct.…
Fishing has been hit-and-miss with the rains scattered unevenly around the different basins. Some of the “hits” were very good catches! There is a fishing regulations virtual meeting coming up to discuss potential changes in the black bass regulations in Georgia. It will be held May 21 at 7 p.m., and you can find out…
Ogeechee River: Mark Vick, of Guyton, fished the river recently and had a good morning, despite the rising water. He and his friend David Brodmann kept 15 nice redbreasts, a bluegill and a catfish. They caught a bunch of fish but only kept the biggest. Their hot Satilla Spin colors were bumblebee (black/yellow) and crawfish.…
The rivers are back to full bank or in the floodplains for the most part. The exception is the St Marys River. It’s very fishable. Altamaha River: Paul and Steve Williamson fished the middle river on Friday and did well for panfish. They had a few catfish, but the shellcrackers were the prize. They put worms…
Wow, what a difference a week makes! We’ve gone from the upper rivers clearing up and dropping lower than you can get motorboats around in to rising fast again. The bigger rivers will take a little longer for that to happen, but the last couple of days of rain will probably push all our rivers…
Ogeechee River Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 10-lbs., 14-ozs. | Robert Attaway Jr. | 05/08/06 |
| Striped Bass | 30-lbs. | Ellis Arnold Phillips | 02/27/89 |
| Redbreast | 1-lb., 5-ozs. | Harley Morris | 06/18/98 |
| Shellcracker | 2-lbs., 8-ozs. | Linda Swan | 11/04/05 |
| Chain Pickerel | 4-lbs., 15-ozs. | Curt Sutton | 06/24/96 |
| Channel Catfish | 29-lbs., 11-ozs. | Glenn Settles | 03/18/23 |
| Brown Bullhead | 4-lbs., 1.04-ozs. | Glenn Settles | 04/06/21 |
| Yellow Bullhead | 4-lbs., 15-ozs. | Glenn Settles | 10/12/03 |
| Hickory Shad | 2-lbs., 10-ozs. | Timmy Woods | 02/20/22 |
| American Shad | 3-lbs., 2.88-ozs. | Jason Cone | 03/22/18 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb., 7.04-ozs. | Chance DeLoach | 06/30/19 |
| Spotted Sunfish | 12-ozs. | Jamie Boyett | 06/15/24 |
| Black Crappie | 2-lbs., 3-ozs. | Glenn Settles | 12/11/21 |
| Warmouth | 1-lb., 4-ozs. | Glenn Settles | 06/21/22 |