Georgia's 2007 fishing opportunities defined by Georgia DNR.

2007 Fishing information about
31 Reservoirs and 18 Georgia rivers
available now on the web.

March 14, 2007
From Melissa Cummings - GA DNR Staff
Image and editing by Bill Byrd.

You can wear your lucky hat and bring your lucky fly rod, but if you want to make the most of your next fishing trip what you really need is great advice. Your best bet? The 2007 Georgia Fishing Prospects Guide.

Recently released by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Wildlife Resources Division (WRD), these two guidebooks, detailing the State's 31 reservoirs and 18 rivers, offer fishing tips, trends and specific species location information.

The free guides, entitled 2007 Georgia Reservoir Fishing Prospects and 2007 Georgia River Fishing Prospects, are available online at The Georgia WRD Website, in print at any WRD Fisheries Management office, or call 706-947-3112 for more details.

Georgia waters offer fly anglers some of the most diverse fishing opportunities in the Southeast with more than 500,000 acres of reservoirs and 12,000 miles of warm water streams.

Outlook information for each Georgia reservoir and river is compiled annually by WRD Fisheries Biologists and is based on sampling efforts, knowledge of past fishing trends, fishing experiences and angler and marina owner information.

Lakes detailed in the 2007 Georgia Reservoir Fishing Prospects guide include: Allatoona, Andrews, Bartlett's Ferry, Blackshear, Blue Ridge, Burton, Carters, Chatuge, Chehaw, Clarks Hill, Goat Rock, Hamburg, Hartwell, High Falls, Jackson, Juliette, Lanier, Nottely, Oconee, Oliver, Rabun, Randy Poynter, Richard B. Russell, Seminole, Sinclair, Tobesofkee, Tugalo, Varner, Walter F. George, Weiss and West Point.

Rivers detailed in the 2007 Georgia River Fishing Prospects guide include the Altamaha, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Conasauga, Coosa, Coosawattee, Etowah, Flint, Ochlockonee, Ocmulgee, Oconee, Ogeechee, Oostanaula, Satilla, Savannah, St. Marys, Suwannee, and Toccoa rivers.

The information collected during the guide creation process doubles as both a helpful resource for Georgia anglers and as useful management information for WRD Fisheries staff when determining recruitment, growth, condition, sizes, abundance and mortality of important game fishes.

For more information on fishing opportunities or to print a copy of the 2007 Lake and River prospects visit The Georgia WRD Website ,find it in print at any WRD Fisheries Management office, or for more details call 706-947-3112.