Best Fishing Spots in Georgia

Georgia inverts the northern picture completely. Where Minnesota is glacial lake country, Georgia is reservoir country: the overwhelming majority of its mapped water is impounded rather than natural, from farm ponds to the large Corps of Engineers lakes on the Chattahoochee, Savannah and Coosa systems. That changes the fishing directly. Levels rise and fall with rainfall and power generation, and the bottom still holds creek channels, roadbeds and standing timber from before flooding. The state spans 156 counties, more than any other mapped, and the water spreads evenly across them rather than clustering: the leading county holds a fraction of what Minnesota's leader does. Nothing freezes, elevation runs from sea level to 1,055 metres in the north Georgia mountains, and the year is limited by heat rather than cold. Counting every entry, Georgia contributes 2,981 waters from 156 counties. Type by type, reservoirs outnumber natural lakes. J. Strom Thurmond Lake is the widest water we hold here, about 110 sq miles. The spread runs from about 44°F in winter to 80°F in summer. Across the listed waters, the species reported most are bluegill, redbreast sunfish, blackbanded darter and largemouth bass....