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Apalachicola River is a public river in Liberty County, Calhoun County, Gulf County, Franklin County, Gadsden County and Jackson County, Florida, managed by State of Florida (sovereign / public-trust water). You can fish it on an Florida licence, but bank access is only at road crossings, parks, FWC access sites and other public land; riparian owners control the bank on non-navigable reaches. Public access confirmed via marquee water.
The Apalachicola — the Panhandle's largest river. A native Gulf-strain striped-bass restoration fishery (the tailwater below Jim Woodruff Dam at Lake Seminole is the spot), plus largemouth in the sloughs and oxbows, big flathead and blue catfish, and bluegill/crappie in the dead lakes. Gulf sturgeon jump here but are fully protected.
It runs roughly 108 miles through the Northwest region. Anglers here mostly fish for largemouth bass, striped bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish; blue catfish, bluegill, black crappie, gulf sturgeon are also on record. Live flow and gauge height come from the Apalachicola River At Chattahoochee Fla USGS station shown below. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Elsie Lake and Woods Branch.
Species from FWC fish-management and boat-ramp data.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in Florida. Some city and county park lakes, and a few Fish Management Areas, have posted hours — check the property rules. Bowfishing and gigging at night are popular and legal on most fresh water.
Boats: Most Florida lakes and rivers have no horsepower limit; idle-speed / no-wake zones are marked near ramps, bridges, residential canals and in manatee zones (Nov–Mar manatee speed zones are strictly enforced). Some small FMAs are electric-motor-only or car-top only.
Bank & bivvy camping: Camp at Florida state parks (reserve at floridastateparks.reserveamerica.com), water-management-district and WMA campsites (many need a free permit or a WMA/management-area permit), and the river-camp system on the Suwannee, Peace and Kissimmee. Dispersed camping is not allowed on most WMAs outside designated hunt seasons.
Tackle: Statewide black-bass daily limit is 5, only one 16 inches or longer; many trophy lakes (Okeechobee, the Kissimmee and Harris chains, several FMAs) have their own slot or catch-and-release rules, and some have special crappie or panfish limits — check the FWC regulations for this water. Butterfly peacock bass: 2 per day, only one over 17 inches.
Boat ramps: 16 mapped — Boat ramp, Boat Ramp, Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Henry Abercrombie, Jr Boat Landing and others nearby.
Camping: 8 sites mapped nearby — Bloody Bluff Landing, Rock Bluff Primitive Camp, Hugo docking 2012, Rock Creek Primitive Camp, Smith Creek Hunt Camp, Smith Creek Landing and others.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Live from USGS gauge 02358000 — Apalachicola River At Chattahoochee Fla. Full gauge data →
Anyone 16–64 needs a Florida freshwater fishing licence — resident annual is about $17, non-resident annual about $47, and non-resident 3-day (~$17) and 7-day (~$30) licences are sold. There is no trout stamp. Florida residents 65+ and residents fishing in their home county with cane poles are exempt. Buy from the FWC (GoOutdoorsFlorida.com). A Florida freshwater fishing licence covers public rivers, creeks and the fresh reaches of the canals. Where a river or canal turns brackish you also need a saltwater licence for snook, redfish and tarpon (and a snook permit and tarpon tag).
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