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
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…
May is the month that southeast Georgia anglers hit the streams and rivers. The red-breasted sunfish are bedding this month, and some of the biggest you will ever catch can be caught right now. Whether you call them redbreasts, red-bellies, or robins, these fish are great to eat and put up quite a fight on…
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The bites have been good, especially before this past weekend’s big rains in southeast Georgia. Now the rivers are booming and lakes and the swamp are high. Even so, if you choose carefully, you can…
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 | 7.44-ozs. | Brentz McGhin | 04/20/24 |
| Redbreast | 12.16-ozs. | Colt James | 11/09/24 |
| White Catfish | 1-lb., 8.32-ozs. | Brentz McGhin | 04/05/24 |
| Shellcracker | 10.56-ozs. | Brentz McGhin | 05/11/24 |
| Bowfin | 6-lbs., 7.68-ozs. | Colt James | 02/22/25 |