Length Limits

There are no minimum length limits on game fish unless listed below:

Largemouth bass - 12 inches statewide except:

• Bear Creek Reservoir (Jackson County): bass between 16 and 22 inches must be released immediately. All others may be kept.
• Blackshear - 14 inches
• Blue Ridge - no minimum (0 inches)
• Burton - no minimum (0 inches)
• Juliette - no minimum (0 inches)
• Lanier - 14 inches
• Oconee - bass between 11 and 14 inches must be released immediately. All others may be kept.
• Ocmulgee River from the Spring Street bridge crossing in Macon downstream to the confluence of the Ocmulgee River and the Oconee River - 14 inches
• Walter F. George - 14 inches
• West Point - 14 inches
• Public Fishing Area lakes operated by the Department of Natural Resources - 14 inches. This limit will not apply to lakes which have been posted as having a different length limit for largemouth bass.

• Flint River and its tributaries - 12 inches
• Lake Lanier - 14 inches

• Lake Lanier - 14 inches

• on the North Newport River, Medway River including Mount Hope Creek, Little Ogeechee River, Ogeechee River; Oconee River downstream of GA Hwy 22 in Milledgeville; Ocmulgee River downstream of GA Hwy 96 bridge between Houston and Twiggs counties; Altamaha River, Saint Mary's River, Satilla River, and the tributaries to these river sections; and from saltwater.
• The minimum length is 27 inches on the Savannah River and its tributaries downstream of J. Strom Thurmond Dam (2 fish limit).
• See agreement with South Carolina for special provisions

• Waters Creek - brown and rainbow trout - 22 inches; brook trout - 18 inches
• Noontootla Creek and its tributaries- 16 inches for all trout

1. Place the fish on its side with the jaw closed.
2. Squeeze the tail fin lobes together.
3. Measure in a straight line from the tip of the snout to the extreme tip of the tail.
4. You must release all fish shorter than the minimum length indicated for that species.