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Altamaha River is a public river in Wayne County, McIntosh County, Long County, Appling County, Tattnall County and Toombs County, Georgia, managed by State of Georgia (public / navigable water). You can fish it on an Georgia licence, but bank access is only at road crossings, parks, GA DNR access sites and other public land; riparian owners control the bank on non-navigable reaches. Public access confirmed via marquee water.
The Altamaha — Georgia's largest river, undammed for its whole 137-mile length. The Altamaha (redeye) bass lives only here and in its tributaries; also trophy redbreast, largemouth, flathead catfish (a huge fishery), a spring American-shad run and striped bass. 'Georgia's Little Amazon'.
It runs roughly 123 miles through the Southeast Georgia region. Anglers here mostly fish for largemouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish; black crappie, flier, bluegill, redbreast sunfish are also on record. Live flow and gauge height come from the Altamaha River At Us 221, Nr Charlotteville, Ga USGS station shown below. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Cherokee Lakes and Rayonier Lake North.
Species from GA DNR fish-management and boat-ramp data.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in Georgia. Public Fishing Areas and some Corps day-use parks have posted hours; a few PFAs are closed at night. Bowfishing and jugging at night are legal on most public water. Trout streams on WMAs may be open only 30 min before sunrise to 30 min after sunset in the seasonal-catch reaches.
Boats: The big Corps and Georgia Power reservoirs have no horsepower limit; idle-speed / no-wake zones are marked near ramps, marinas, bridges and dams. Many Public Fishing Area ponds are electric-motor-only or trolling-motor-only, and some are car-top only. Georgia requires a boat-safety course for operators born on or after 1 Jan 1998.
Bank & bivvy camping: Camp at Georgia state parks (GeorgiaStateParks.org), Corps of Engineers lakeside campgrounds, and Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest sites. WMAs allow camping only in designated areas and often only during hunt seasons. The blackwater paddle rivers (Ogeechee, Satilla, Altamaha) have a sandbar-camping tradition on the exposed bars.
Tackle: Statewide black-bass daily limit is 10 in aggregate (only 2 may be shoal bass, and the redeye/Bartram's/Chattahoochee/Altamaha bass have their own protections); 15 crappie on many reservoirs; 8 trout with a Georgia trout licence. Several rivers and reservoirs have their own slot or size limits — check the current Georgia regulations for this water.
Boat ramps: 11 mapped — Boat ramp, Boat Ramp, Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Tattnall Landing, Boat ramp and others nearby.
Camping: 4 sites mapped nearby — Altamaha Regional Park, Towns Bluff RV Park and Campground, Fort Barrington, Campsite.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Live from USGS gauge 02224940 — Altamaha River At Us 221, Nr Charlotteville, Ga. Full gauge data →
Anyone 16-64 needs a Georgia fishing licence — resident annual is about $15, non-resident annual about $50, and non-resident 1-day (~$10) and 3-day (~$18) licences are sold. A separate Georgia trout licence (~$10 resident / ~$20 non-resident) is required to fish for or possess trout. Georgia residents 65+ fish free. Buy from GoOutdoorsGeorgia.com. A Georgia fishing licence covers navigable rivers and the whole Georgia side of the Savannah, Chattahoochee and St. Marys. A Georgia trout licence is also required on any water that holds trout.
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