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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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In the late 1800s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and others cut through 46 bends in the Savannah River below Augusta to aid commercial navigation. Now the corps wants to know how these “shortcuts” have impacted the river’s ecosystem and which ones make the best candidates for restoring. In order to look into how…
The Savannah River likely isn’t the first thought for anglers who want to tangle with a smallmouth bass in Georgia, but there are bronzebacks in the river. Smallmouths are not uncommon now below the Clarks Hill dam, through the Augusta shoals area, and apparently quite a distance downstream. The new river record for smallmouth on…
Spend enough time in the outdoors, and you’re going to experience nature in some unforgettable ways. For a couple of bream fishermen last summer, a Savannah River trip produced quick limits of redbreasts, and then it resulted in a bald eagle encounter that quickly turned into a rescue effort. On the morning of June 5,…
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 |