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Mathews Creek is a public river in Crawford 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 public-trust river.
A warmwater Georgia river or large creek — largemouth bass, redbreast and bluegill sunfish, channel and flathead catfish, bowfin and gar. Access at road crossings, county parks and WMA landings.
It runs roughly 5 miles through the West Central Georgia region. Anglers here mostly fish for largemouth bass, redbreast sunfish, bluegill, channel catfish; flathead catfish, bowfin, longnose gar are also on record. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Culpepper Creek and Ulcohatchee 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: Most Georgia rivers are waded or floated by canoe, kayak and jon boat; the Coosa, lower Flint, Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Savannah take bigger craft.
Bank & bivvy camping: Georgia navigable-water rule: you may fish and float any navigable stream; bank access is at Georgia DNR and county ramps, WMA landings, bridges, state parks and the sandbar-camping paddle rivers.
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.
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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