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Satilla River
The Satilla River originates in Ben Hill County near the town of Fitzgerald and flows east and southeast to the Atlantic Ocean, passing through the cities of Waycross, Waynesville and Woodbine. The Satilla River is a beautiful blackwater run with white sandbars and great fishing, especially for redbreast, but also for bass, catfish and other bream species.
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Satilla River Articles
Max Martinkoski caught a 1-lb., 4.48-oz. river-record bluegill on the Satilla River on May 10, 2014.
Bass, stripers, redfish and rainbow trout steal the headlines in most print, but there is little that rivals the sheer fun of using ultralight tackle and catching panfish after panfish from a slow-flowing, blackwater, south Georgia river. After over a year of flooded rivers and very little fishing pressure, the overall fish populations in south…
The name on the cell-phone dis- play brought a smile to my face. The caller was Glenn Durden, a die-hard outdoorsman and avid conservationist from Vidalia. I expected the usual you ‘should-have-been-there-yesterday’ report from his most recent trip, so I was a bit surprised when he started the conversation with an invitation. “Can you get…
Satilla River Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 12-lbs. | Kevin Mullis | 03/27/2015 |
| Striped Bass | 11-lbs., 9.76-ozs. | John Geiger | 03/15/2006 |
| Channel Catfish | 32-lbs., 3-ozs. | James Lentz | 10/30/1977 |
| Flathead Catfish | 45-lbs. 15-ozs. | Larry Linker | 10/10/2018 |
| Shellcracker | 1-lb.,10-ozs. | Joseph Boyett | 05/03/1987 |
| Chain Pickerel | 4-lbs., 14-ozs. | Virgil Chaney | 1996 |
| Redbreast | 1-lb., 12.32-ozs. | Lester Roberts | 05/07/2022 |
| Warmouth | 1-lb., 4.64-ozs. | Michael Lott | 05/10/2022 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb, 6.88-ozs. | Gunter Thrift | 04/07/23 |
| Spotted Sunfish | 10.08-ozs. | Ron Adams | 05/30/2021 |
| Bowfin | 14-lbs., 10-ozs. | Brandon Corbitt | 04/01/23 |
| Longnose Gar | 18-lbs., 6.56-ozs. | Larry Linker | 05/20/2021 |
| White Catfish | 2-lbs., 15.52-ozs. | Chris Royer | 12/21/15 |
| Black Crappie | 2-lbs., 2.88-ozs. | Chas Strickland | 01/19/25 |