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Flint River is a public river in Decatur County, Baker County, Upson County, Mitchell County, Taylor County and Macon 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 Flint — one of only 40-odd rivers in the US that flows unimpounded for more than 200 miles. The premier shoal-bass river on Earth, plus largemouth and spotted bass, giant redbreast sunfish, and flathead catfish. The Yellow Jacket / Sprewell Bluff and Po Biddy shoal reaches are the classics.
It runs roughly 329 miles through the Southwest Georgia region. Anglers here mostly fish for largemouth bass, shoal bass, spotted bass, channel catfish; flathead catfish, black crappie, bluegill, redbreast sunfish are also on record. Live flow and gauge height come from the Flint River At Ga 32, Near Oakfield, Ga USGS station shown below. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Sweetwater Creek and Camp Creek.
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: 20 mapped — Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Boat Ramp, Boat Ramp, Boat ramp and others nearby.
Camping: 5 sites mapped nearby — Campsite, Bainbridge Riverview Campground, Gerald L. Lawhorn Scouting Base, Eastbank, Lake Blackshear Campgrounds.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Live from USGS gauge 02350512 — Flint River At Ga 32, Near Oakfield, 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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