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Okefenokee Swamp
The Okefenokee is a shallow, 438,000-acre swamp along the Georgia–Florida line that offers a unique fishing experience in the largest blackwater swamp in the United States. The mystical black water of the swamp harbors excellent populations of chain pickerel, bowfin, flier, warmouth and bullhead catfish. Much of the Okefenokee, 402,000 acres, is managed as the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The Okefenokee Swamp was named after the Choctaw phrase, "Land of the Trembling Earth." The Okefenokee was created by the natural accumulation of peat moss in a shallow basin. The St. Marys River and the Suwannee River both originate in the swamp, with the Suwannee River amounting to the flow of about 90% of the swamp's watershed southwest toward the Gulf of Mexico. The waters of the swamp's southeast corner flow out of the St. Marys River to the Atlantic Ocean.
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By J. Wyatt Hutcheson Since April 28, a wildfire caused by a lightning strike has burned in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. At presstime, that fire had burned approximately 281,992 acres of swamp and land in both Georgia and Florida. The fire is being managed as the Honey Prairie Complex under the unified command of…
Largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, shellcrackers, and channel catfish… all species that you can forget about catching on a fishing trip to the “land of the trembling earth,” the Okefenokee Swamp. The mystical black water of the swamp harbors excellent gamefish populations, but they are of the chain pickerel, bowfin, flier, warmouth, and bullhead catfish variety.…
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The bites have mostly been good this week. The Altamaha system bass bite has been great. Saltwater has provided a good bite when you could get out. Several days this week it was howling! At least two river records were…
Read MoreOkefenokee Swamp Record Fish
Spotted Sunfish | 5.85-ozs. | Bert Deener | 4-27-2023 |
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Flier | 7.92-ozs. | Tim Cutting | 02/28/24 |
Chain Pickerel | 2-lbs., 15-ozs. | Silas Kight | 03/02/24 |
Warmouth | 15.36-ozs. | Bert Deener | 05/17/24 |
Bluegill | 1-lb., 0.96-ozs. | Josh Forsythe | 06/14/24 |