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PEACH STATE FACT FOR THE WEEK

October's Record Fish

Suwannee bass. Photo by Jimmy Jacobs.

While a lot of Georgia’s outdoorsmen are in the woodlands hunting whitetail deer, now is also a good time to be fishing. In fact, three of the Peach State’s freshwater state-record fish were caught in the month of October. Interestingly, all three were caught from rivers.

The record Suwannee bass was caught by Laverne Norton from the Ochlocknee River in 1984. That bass tipped the scales at 3 pounds, 9 ounces. In 2003, Glenn Settles set the record for yellow bullheads with a 4-pound, 15-ounce cat taken from the Ogeechee River. Finally, Tim Trone was fishing in the Chattahoochee River in 2020, when he caught a blue catfish that weight 110 pounds, 6 ounces.

This just might be the time to do a bit of river fishing. For a complete list of Georgia state-record freshwater fish, click here.

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