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Chattahoochee River is a public river in Fulton County, Hall County, Early County, Troup County, White County and Seminole 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 Chattahoochee — 430 miles from the Blue Ridge to Lake Seminole. The metro-Atlanta tailwater below Buford Dam is a year-round trout fishery (cold Lanier water); above the lake it's a mountain trout and smallmouth stream; below Atlanta it's a shoal-bass, largemouth and catfish river down to West Point. Trout licence needed for the tailwater.
It runs roughly 379 miles through the Piedmont region. Anglers here mostly fish for largemouth bass, shoal bass, striped bass, bluegill; redbreast sunfish, yellow perch, channel catfish, black crappie are also on record. Live flow and gauge height come from the Chattahoochee River Above Roswell, Ga USGS station shown below. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are West Point Lake and Piney Woods Lake.
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.
Boat ramps: 20 mapped — Boat ramp, Put-in, Boat ramp, Azalea Boat Launch, Boat ramp, Abbotts Bridge Ramp and others nearby.
Camping: 20 sites mapped nearby — Campsite, 33, 34, 32, 31, 30 and others.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Live from USGS gauge 02335450 — Chattahoochee River Above Roswell, 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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