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Savannah River
The Savannah River is a major river that forms most of the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia. The lower Savannah is big and wide with numerous backwater oxbows that offer good fishing for bass, bream, crappie and catfish. The Intracoastal Waterway flows through a section of the Savannah River near the city of Savannah.
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I’ve fished for striped bass for about the past four decades. Mostly I’ve chased the freshwater, landlocked version. These stripers are reared in hatcheries and released in freshwater lakes, where they feed on shad and grow to a size equal to any native striper found in saltwater. My biggest freshwater striper was a 33-pounder that…
Folks who had been on an alligator hunt said it would be intense, unlike anything we had ever experienced. This time, folks were right. Releasing an arrow at a gator 10 feet from the jonboat at 1 a.m. was an adrenaline rush, to say the least. But that was only the beginning of an adventure…
World-class bass fisheries such as Clarks Hill, Russell, and Hartwell steal most of the article headlines on the Savannah River, but the flowing part of the river boasts high-quality bass fishing also. The once-sinuous river has been straightened, but the oxbow lakes now provide slack-water bass opportunities. In April, those oxbows are the place to…
Freshwater is heating up in the flat waters. Rivers are still mostly high, but some stretches and backwaters will be fishable soon. The Okefenokee is high, but the bite has still been good.…
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The warm-up that is coming to an end as I write this has been great for most bites. A few trips this week were a bust because of what I call the “it’s…
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Wow! What a difference a week can make… again! This warm up has gotten the fish fired up all over the place. The smaller ponds and shallow systems have really fired off, and…
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I hope that each of you had a safe New Year! The bites all over southeast Georgia and north Florida have been really good. Crappie, seatrout, bass and bowfin have been tops from…
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I hope that each of you is having a wonderful Christmas season! It’s been good fishing this week for the few who reported. Altamaha River: The crappie bite was fantastic before water from…
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It’s been a good week of fishing. This is one of my favorite times of the year—when the panfish start moving to the shallows to spawn, bass are feeding with reckless abandon until…
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The weekend rains were followed by cold, but a few folks got on fish. Lakes, ponds and saltwater are where the best reports came from. Savannah River: Mark Vick returned to the river…
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The stable (but colder) weather this week produced some good catches. The rivers are still high, but they are coming down to fishable levels. Lakes, ponds and saltwater had the best catches reported…
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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…
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I hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend and are able to work some fishing into your plans. Saltwater will be rough early in the weekend with very strong winds forecasted,…
Read MoreSavannah River Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 15-lbs. | Mike Stille | 11/06/99 |
| Hybrid Bass | 22-lbs., 6-ozs. | Jerry Adams | 06/20/86 |
| Striped Bass | 56-lbs., 2-ozs. | Vaughn Taylor | 05/07/12 |
| Chain Pickerel | 4-lbs., 12-ozs. | James Moore | 05/10/22 |
| Shellcracker | 3-lbs. | William Owens IV | 06/24/08 |
| White Catfish | 8-lbs., 10-ozs.* | James Sanders | 06/96 |
| American Shad | 8-lbs., 3-ozs.* | Henry Baxley | 04/86 |
| Gizzard Shad | 3-lbs., 2-ozs. | Taylor Hodson | 04/06/07 |
| Hickory Shad | 1-lb., 12-ozs. | Bill Resseau | 03/19/06 |
| Yellow Perch | 2-lbs., 9-ozs.* | Thomas Lewis | 02/27/13 |
| White Crappie | 2-lbs., 13-ozs. | Mike Markovcic | 03/03/16 |
| Redbreast | 1-lb., 1.6-oz. | Donavan Pruitt | 5/14/20 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb. 1.92-ozs. | Joe Taylor Jr. | 05/19/20 |
| Warmouth | 1-lb., 6.5-ozs. | Joshua Barnhill | 05/20/22 |
| Smallmouth Bass | 4-lbs., 4.64-ozs. | Stephen Mixon | 07/05/18 |
| Channel Catfish | 33-lbs., 8-ozs. | McCoy Skinner | 03/30/24 |