Most anglers in Georgia immediately think of trout when the subject of fishing in the Cohutta WMA and Wilderness Area comes up.

However, it’s time to think again, because Lake Conasauga has consistently produced some good numbers and sizes of largemouth bass over the last few years.

The 19-acre lake also has another claim to fame. Its elevation of approximately 3,150 feet above sea level makes it the highest public lake in Georgia.

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Earlier in the year, Crooked River State Park in extreme southeast Georgia won the “Most Outstanding Park Operations” award for a combination of being run efficiently, as well as having outstanding interpretive programs and facilities. With such an awesome assortment of parks and historic sites across our great state, that is quite an honor. A decade ago, it was a regular occurrence for my father and I to rent the Crooked River State Park cabins for a few days when he visited, and we would fish for trout and redfish. Since my parents moved to Waycross, we now typically drive to the park to fish for the day and drive home again. During spring break in early April, my family and I decided to stay in the cabins again and sample many of the fun activities the park and area have to offer.

Knowing that we could not check into our cabin until the afternoon, we sidetracked into the city of St. Marys for the early afternoon. We had a great lunch in a café in...

We’ve got a couple of impressive new records to report this month, a big Toccoa River rainbow trout and the coveted West Point flathead catfish record.

Last year at this time, GON was reporting on trout populations devastated in the Toccoa River tailrace by warm-water...