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Savannah River is a public river in Screven County, Effingham County, Richmond County, Burke County, Chatham County and Elbert 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 Savannah — the Georgia–South Carolina border river below Clarks Hill / Thurmond. Striped bass (a restoration success), largemouth, big blue and flathead catfish, a strong spring American- and hickory-shad run, redbreast and crappie. A Georgia OR South Carolina licence fishes the whole river.
It runs roughly 269 miles through the Southeast Georgia region. Anglers here mostly fish for largemouth bass, striped bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish; white catfish, yellow bullhead, brown bullhead, black crappie are also on record. Live flow and gauge height come from the Savannah River I-95 Near Port Wentworth, Ga USGS station shown below. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Fourmile Branch and Telfair Pond.
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, Baurle Boat Ramp at Lock and Dam Park, Boat ramp, Boat ramp, Cohen's Bluff Landing, Lynn R. Sullivan Jackson Boat Landing and Recreation Area and others nearby.
Camping: 5 sites mapped nearby — West Dam, Campsite, Hester's Bottoms Family Campground, Campsite, Hickory Knob Campground.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Live from USGS gauge 02198840 — Savannah River I-95 Near Port Wentworth, 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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