Georgia Fishing Forecasts

Georgia has a hundred miles of coast and almost none of it is beach.

What it has instead is marsh: the widest salt marsh on the Atlantic seaboard, cut by sounds and tidal rivers that swing seven, eight, sometimes nine feet between high and low. That much water moving twice a day is the whole story. On the flood, bait pushes up into the spartina and the redfish follow it in. On the ebb, everything funnels back out through the creek mouths, and the trout and flounder sit where the current does the work for them. Slack water is a lunch break.

The Golden Isles and Tybee fish the beaches and jetties; Savannah, Darien, and St. Marys fish the rivers. Different water, same rule: be there when it moves.

Should I Fish? scores every town below, every day: NOAA tide predictions with each town’s offset applied, the weather coming in off the Atlantic, sun and moon, one number and a plain answer. Pick your town. See when the water moves. Go then.