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Saltwater Fishing – St. Simons Island, Georgia

st simons island

This week Bob is joined by Captain Richard Latham, a longtime guide in the St. Simons Island area. Bob and Richard will be fishing for reds and sea trout. If you’ve ever wondered about the fishing off the Georgia coast, you won’t want to miss this!

St. Simons Island is one of Georgia‘s renowned Golden Isles (along with Sea IslandJekyll Island, and privately owned Little St. Simons Island). It is also the largest of the Golden Isles. After being developed by colonists as rice and cotton plantations worked by large populations of African slaves, who developed the unique Gullah culture, the island since the early twentieth century has become a resort community. It has many seasonal residents, as well as a steady base of year-round residents. Source

Clarks Hill Lake Striper Fishing – Nov 15th 2009

clarkshillThis week Bob is off to Clarks Hill Lake, located just south of Augusta, Georgia. Longtime guide William Sasser takes Bob on a great striper adventure all across Clarks Hill Lake.

Why Clarks Hill? Clarks Hill Lake (J. Strom Thurmond Lake) is the largest U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project east of the Mississippi River and one of the largest inland bodies of water in the South. The best part, it’s full of striper thanks to the Georgia and South Carolina Department of Natural Resource Departments, they’ve released over 750,000 stripers!

Here are a few fun facts about Clarks Hill Lake:
* 71,000 acres of water
* 1,200 miles of shoreline
* Created from Savannah River and Little River
* Authorized by Congress in what year: 1944
* Construction began: 1946
* Date opened: 1954
* Six million visitors per year
* 55 parks and recreation areas
* 17 campgrounds with campsites
* Six marinas with gas docks, pump-out stations, boat slips, restaurants, boat storage camping, lodging, picnic areas, trails, ships store
* Major lake attractions: Bobby Brown State Park, Elijah Clark State
* Park and Mistletoe State Park

Thinking about taking a trip to Clarks Hill this year or next spring? We highly recommend it.