St. Marys River
The 126-mile-long St. Marys River emerges from the southeast corner of the Okefenokee Swamp and flows south, then east, then north, then east-southeast, finally emptying its waters into the Atlantic near St. Marys, Georgia and Fernandina Beach, Florida.
St. Marys River Articles
The population rebound of the American alligator is one of the great wildlife stories of my lifetime. I have been applying for a permit since Georgia’s first alligator season and was finally selected for the 2006 season. As I reflect on that awesome hunt I had last year, my excitement level builds in anticipation of…
When I think of panfishing on the St. Marys River, my friend Brentz McGhin of Blackshear immediately comes to mind. For years I have seen photos of trip after trip where he caught a mixed bag of panfish from the coffee-colored waters of this border river. The St. Marys River stretches 130 river miles from…
At the mouth of the St. Marys River on the Florida-Georgia border, a wide dredged channel runs east into the ocean for about a mile. It is a deep channel, one that allows part of our nuclear submarine fleet access to their port at Kings Bay. On the north and south of the channel, jetties…
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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 this week.…
Read MoreSt. Marys River Record Fish
| Largemouth Bass | 11-lbs., 4-ozs. | Don Durr | 04/13/19 |
| Bluegill | 1-lb., 10.56-ozs. | Shirley D. Purser | 05/12/20 |
| Warmouth | 1-lb., 1.44-ozs. | Brentz McGhin | 04/05/24 |
| Spotted Sunfish | 6.9-ozs. | Brentz McGhin | 05/05/23 |
| Redbreast | 8.9-ozs. | Brentz McGhin | 05/06/23 |
| White Catfish | 1-lb., 8.32-ozs. | Brentz McGhin | 04/05/24 |