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Fishing Reports
Springtime fishing is here. Bass are in all stages of the spawn. Early spawners are done and feeding up ahead of summer heat, and some species are just starting to spawn. Fun stuff, but sometimes difficult to pick a bite. If you pick right, it’s a blast! But if you don’t, then it could be…
I’ve not been around a lot this week due to fishing in the Everglades, but the reports I did receive were good. The rivers are getting back down and those bites are heating up at different rates. Guess right and you could be in for a great day! Altamaha River: Seth Carter fished the backwaters…
Fishing is heating up with the current warm-up! The flatwater produced the best reports this week. Rivers are still high but are getting fishable. Alapaha River: The exciting news from the river this week was an Angler Award and new river record channel catfish caught by Christopher Quiggins. He fooled the giant with a minnow.…
Bacon-Wrapped Georgia Shrimp Whet the appetites of backyard grill fans with a serving of bacon-wrapped shrimp. Keep an eye out for the opening of Georgia’s recreation shrimp season, which typically runs from early June to the end of January. Use your cast net or seine to take advantage of this plentiful natural bounty on our…
The reports were as varied as the weather this week. The best reports came from ponds and the Okefenokee Swamp. Saltwater was hit-and-miss. The southeast Georgia rivers are still high but are falling now that the leaves have budded out and the trees are pulling more water. St. Marys River: The Temple Landing is currently…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “April should be a good month for fish catching. It is usually the month that officially ends winter on the coast. Everything starts getting active, bait moves shallow and so do the fish. Redfish should be out of the upper rivers and out toward the sounds and creeks off the…
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. Very few people fished the brine with the strong winds and bigger tides earlier in the weekend. Savannah River: Mark Vick fished…
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 get on a good bite. St. Marys River: Sammy Gaskins went to the river on Friday before the big rains…
The weather has been great for most of this week. The Okefenokee Swamp, saltwater and ponds have produced the best catches from the reports I received. St. Marys River: Seth Carter fished the river on Sunday and caught some bass. Matt Rouse reported that the upper river is still in good shape but a little…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. Judy Helmey reports, “Well, I don’t have to tell you that January/February 2025 weather has been crazy. Our brief but devastating so-called blizzard/snowstorm dropped the water temps fast, causing much mayhem in the fisheries. This situation halted fishing for about a week. The bad weather is hopefully all behind us. It seems even…
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