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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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Any bass angler who has fished where there are good numbers of warmouth has probably had one of these small bream suck up a bass lure in its over-sized mouth. A bass fishing trip on the Savannah River produced that scenario for Baker Woodward, of Pooler, and it resulted in a new record fish. On…
The record for redbreast on the Savannah River was broken on back-to-back days back in May. The second fish—and the new Savannah River record redbreast—was caught on May 14, 2020 by Donavan Pruitt, who is a farmer near Sylvania in Screven County. We’re just now reporting on Donavan’s redbreast only because he’s been busy farming,…
There’s a new record redbreast for the Savannah River. Danny Vann, of Hephzibah, was fishing below the New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam in Augusta on May 13 when he caught the redbreast, known locally as redbellies. It weighed 1-lb., 1-oz on WRD certified scales at the McDuffie Hatchery. Jay Payne, a WRD fisheries biologist…
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 |