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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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Robert Attaway caught a 1-lb., 1.6-oz. bluegill on the Savannah River on March 31, 2016 that set a benchmark river record for the Savannah River stretch from the Clarks Hill tailrace to the coast.
Most southern anglers land an occasional yellow perch while chasing crappie or bluegill. For Tom Lewis, catching the brightly colored fish is an annual mid-winter obsession. “I go every chance I get, once the bigger ones start biting,” said Tom, who fishes the deep, cold waters of the Savannah River below Clarks Hill Dam. “The…
Angler Thomas Lewis of Grovetown in Columbia County reeled in the new state-record yellow perch from the Savannah River, just below Clarks Hill Dam, on Feb. 27, 2013. This is the first new state record fish since 2010. According to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division, this 2-lb., 9-oz., 16.5-inch catch beats…
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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| 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 |