Chattahoochee River and its Impoundments and Tributaries
The rule for this water, with the receipt.
Special regulations for Chattahoochee River and its Impoundments and Tributaries, as the state words them
Barbour County · River · AL
The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text
Straight from AL's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.
- White Bass, Saltwater Striped Bass and HybridsSpecial creel limits apply in reciprocal waters as specified under regulation 220-2-.122 Georgia Reciprocal Fishing Agreement Regulation.
- All fishAlabama and Georgia have a reciprocal agreement for fishing from the banks or on the waters of the Chattahoochee River between Alabama and Georgia and all impoundments thereon, South of the Georgia Highway 109 bridge. This agreement does not include any streams or tributaries.
Statewide base layerParsed
These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.
- Season
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Gear
- It is illegal to take, catch or kill, or attempt to take, catch or kill any game fish by any means other than ordinary hook and line, artificial lure, live bait, troll or spinner in any of the public waters of this State.Statewide
- Bait
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Poles
- There is no restriction on the number of rods used by anglers in most Alabama public water bodiesStatewide
Where the verbatim rules above name a species, season, or limit, they replace the rows below. Each row is tagged with the layer it comes from.
| Species | Daily limit | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
Black Bass | 10 | - | Statewide |
Walleye | 2 | - | Statewide |
Sauger | 5 | min. 15 inches total length | Statewide |
White Bass | 15 | - | Statewide |
Yellow Bass | 15 | - | Statewide |
Crappie | 30 | - | Statewide |
Yellow Perch | No Limit | - | Statewide |
Bream | 50 | - | Statewide |
Alligator Gar | 1 | - | Statewide |
Sturgeon | Closed Season | - | Statewide |
Paddlefish or Spoonbill | Closed Season | - | Statewide |
How this answer was assembled
- StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
- This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
- Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.
Where this stretch begins and ends
The drawn shape is the named water, matched from the official list against OpenStreetMap and accepted only because the name resolved to a single feature in this water's county.
Different sections of this water can have different rules. The exact section boundaries are not marked on the map yet; each rule above describes in plain words where it starts and ends, and that written description is the authoritative boundary. Map boundaries come water by water, never as a guess.
At the water nowContext
Streamflow: 7,280 cfs at chattahoochee river at 14th st, at columbus, ga (2026-07-29 03:15)
Forecast: National Weather Service. Flow: nearest active USGS gauge in this water's area, which may sit on a different reach. Conditions are context, not rules.
What are you fishing for here?Advice
Pick from the species named in Chattahoochee River and its Impoundments and Tributaries's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.
Receipts
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