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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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PGA Tour Pro Vaughn Taylor had the week off from golfing. So he went fishing and caught the new Savannah River Record striper on Monday. Vaughn, of Evans, caught the 56-lb., 2-oz. behemoth May 7 on a bucktail jig just below the Clarks Hill Dam. It took him more than 20 minutes to fight and…
Stripers, mullet and American shad are among the species that spend time in both freshwater and saltwater. Depending on the season, they can be found in good numbers in Georgia’s coastal freshwater rivers. But what are flounder doing 160 miles up the Savannah River below the Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam in Augusta? Bowfisherman Justin…
Bass fishing on the lower end of the Savannah River has been “pretty good,” said fisherman Mike Stille of Eden — in a classic bit of fish-catching understatement. On Nov. 6, 1999, Mike was fishing the Savannah River near the Clyo Landing in Effingham County and was chunking a Zoom plastic worm. Mike fishes for…
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 |