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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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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…
My itch to begin fishing usually begins with the first warm day in February. The temperature rises close to 60 or so, and I can’t help but think that the fish are as eager to get started feeding as I am to get out there and take advantage of them. Combine this urge with the…
“Striper Highway” could be the name of either of the two, main highways in coastal Georgia, I-95 and U.S. Highway 17. What lies below the asphalt is what many coastal anglers seek — striped bass. At times there are more stripers stacked up behind the bridge pilings than motorists driving above. Some terrific striped-bass fishing…
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…
Read MoreSavannah River Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 15-lbs. | Mike Stille | 11/06/1999 |
| Hybrid Bass | 22-lbs., 6-ozs. | Jerry Adams | 06/20/1986 |
| Striped Bass | 56-lbs., 2-ozs. | Vaughn Taylor | 05/07/2012 |
| Chain Pickerel | 4-lbs., 12-ozs. | James Moore | 05/10/2022 |
| Shellcracker | 3-lbs. | William Owens IV | 06/24/2008 |
| White Catfish | 8-lbs., 10-ozs.* | James Sanders | 06/1996 |
| American Shad | 8-lbs., 3-ozs.* | Henry Baxley | 04/1986 |
| Gizzard Shad | 3-lbs., 2-ozs. | Taylor Hodson | 04/06/2007 |
| Hickory Shad | 1-lb., 12-ozs. | Bill Resseau | 03/19/2006 |
| Yellow Perch | 2-lbs., 9-ozs.* | Thomas Lewis | 02/27/2013 |
| White Crappie | 2-lbs., 13-ozs. | Mike Markovcic | 03/03/2016 |
| Redbreast | 1-lb., 1.6-oz. | Donavan Pruitt | 5/14/2020 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb. 3.2-ozs. | Dustin Burton | 05/9/2025 |
| Warmouth | 1-lb., 6.5-ozs. | Joshua Barnhill | 05/20/2022 |
| Smallmouth Bass | 4-lbs., 4.64-ozs. | Stephen Mixon | 07/05/2018 |
| Channel Catfish | 33-lbs., 8-ozs. | McCoy Skinner | 03/30/2024 |