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The rule for this water, with the receipt.

Special regulations for 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 the GA Hwy 96 bridge between Houston and Twiggs counties, Altamaha River, St. Mary's River, Satilla River, and the tributaries to these river sections, as the state words them

Liberty County · River · GA

Has its own special rules
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The rules for this water, verbatimOfficial text

Straight from GA'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.

Whole water
  • Striped Bass, White Bass and/or Hybrid White-Striped Bass
    Daily limit Two fish, both of which must be 22 inches in length or longer.Size 22 inches
  • Striped Bass, White Bass, & Hybrid White-Striped Bass
    Size 22 inches

Statewide base layerParsed

These defaults apply where the rules above do not modify them.

Season
There is no closed season for fishing in freshwater in GeorgiaStatewide
Gear
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Bait
Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
Poles
There is no restriction on the number of poles and lines used to fish for game fishStatewide

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.

SpeciesDaily limitSize
Amberjack
1min. 28 FLStatewide
American Eel
25min. 9 TLStatewide
Atlantic croaker
25-Statewide
Black drum
15min. 14 TLStatewide
Black sea bass
15min. 12 TLStatewide
Bluefish
15min. 12 FLStatewide
Cobia
1 per angler, max 6 per boat.min. 36 FLStatewide
Dolphin
10 (not to exceed 54 per boat, except headboats, which are allowed 10 per paying customermin. 20 FLStatewide
Flounder
15min. 12 TLStatewide
Gag grouper
2min. 24 TLStatewide
King mackerel
3min. 24 FLStatewide
Red porgy
3min. 14 TLStatewide
Red snapper
2min. 20 TLStatewide
Hammerhead Sharks (Great, Scalloped, and Smooth)
See sizemin. 78 FLStatewide
Shortfin Mako Shark
See sizemin. 83 FLStatewide
Sheepshead
15min. 10 FLStatewide
Spanish mackerel
15min. 12 FLStatewide
Spot
25-Statewide
Spotted seatrout
15min. 14 TLStatewide
Tarpon
1min. 68 FLStatewide
Tripletail
2min. 18 TLStatewide
Weakfish
1min. 13 TLStatewide
nongame fish
Up to 50min. 5 inches in length or lessStatewide
Black bass (Genus Micropterus)
10-Statewide
Channel and/or Flathead Catfish
No limit-Statewide
Black and/or White Crappie
30-Statewide
Chain, Grass and/or Redfin Pickerel
15-Statewide
American and/or Hickory Shad
8-Statewide
Walleye
8-Statewide
Sturgeon
May not be taken-Statewide
freshwater turtles
not more than 10 freshwater turtles (any combination of species) without a valid permit-Statewide
Largemouth bass
Varies by water: limit 5 (Public Fishing Areas)
See sizemin. 14 inches minimum unless otherwise postedStatewide
Bream or sunfish
15-Statewide
Channel catfish
5-Statewide
shrimp
Varies by water: limit no more than 24 quarts of shrimp with heads on or 15 quarts of tails in any 24-hour period (Seines - Harvest Limits, food shrimp); limit no more than 48 quarts of heads-on shrimp or 30 quarts of shrimp tails in any day (Cast Nets - Harvest Limits, food shrimp per person); limit no more than 48 quarts of heads-on shrimp or 30 quarts of shrimp tails on board at any time (Cast Nets - Harvest Limits, food shrimp same boat)
possess no more than 2 quarts at any time, no more than ½ pint dead; take no more than 4 quarts within a 24-hour period-Statewide
blue crab
no more than one bushel of crabs during any 24-hour period per recreational crabber; no more than two bushels taken or possessed during a 24-hour period on a boat with more than one person aboardmin. 5 inches from spike to spike across the back (other than a “peeler” or a “mature adult female” crab); peelers must measure at least 3 inches from spike to spike across the backStatewide
oysters
up to two bushels per person per day, maximum of six bushels per boat per daymin. no less than three inches from hinge to mouth, unless the oyster cannot be removed from a legal-sized oyster without destroying itStatewide
clams
one bushel per person per day, maximum limit of one bushel per boat per daymin. maximum depth from one shell half to the other must be at least ¾ inch thickStatewide
whelk (conch)
1 bushel per personmin. no minimum sizeStatewide
bait minnows
Varies by water: limit not more than 10 quarts at any given time (Bait Minnows - Possession Limits, licensed saltwater fishing guide)
no more than two quarts at any given time-Statewide

How this answer was assembled

  1. StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
  2. This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
  3. 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

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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

Overnight
79°F
Partly Cloudy
Wind 9 mph · 2% precip
Wednesday
98°F
Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Wind 9 mph · 32% precip
Wednesday Night
77°F
Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy
Wind 8 mph · 46% precip

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 North Newport River +9 more'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

Statewide rules
Statewide
Checked against this official source on July 11, 2026.
Special rules - North Newport River +9 more
This water
Checked against this official source on July 11, 2026.

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