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Yellow Creek is a public river in Monroe County, Georgia. 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.
It runs roughly 8 miles through the Piedmont region. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Little Tobesofkee Creek and Pippin Lake.
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 all public water in the state; a separate Georgia trout licence is required to fish for or possess trout. Some reservoirs have their own bass slot limits.
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