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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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Michael Mooney has some huge bass to his credit over the years, including a 12-lb., 6-oz. largemouth that still holds the record as the biggest ever caught from McDuffie Public Fishing Area, and his biggest bass was another 12-plus pounder from a private pond. But Michael still had a goal he’s been pursuing for three…
Joshua Barnhill’s day of fishing on the Savannah River didn’t turn out anything like he had hoped. His plans were to use a bobber and crickets to catch bluegill that he would use later in the day to bait his trotlines. What he caught instead was a lot more exciting. “To tell you the truth,…
James Moore thought he had seen everything in his more than seven decades of fishing, but he had never seen the likes of whatever it was on his line on the Savannah River the other day. “I usually go fishing about every other week,” the 74-year-old Harlem resident said. “I’ve been doing that since my…
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,…
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It should be another great week of fishing, but afternoon thundershowers are starting to factor into the equation. The Satilla didn’t get quite warm enough and it’s headed back up again. Other rivers…
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This is a great weekend to hitch up the boat. The rivers are falling to fishable levels, the Swamp is firing on all cylinders and saltwater is beginning to warm up (and tidal…
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 |