CORNELIA – Owing to a warm friendship with Jimmy Harris, the good-natured mayor of Nacoochee Bend, just outside Helen, I have for the longest time experienced some of the most refreshing sojourns into ...

A man’s efforts on a small north Georgia stream were rewarded when he landed a rare golden rainbow trout last week. Georgia Outdoor News reports that Zach Baker, 27, of Maysville, Georgia, caught the ...

Later this month, state and federal fisheries workers will begin stocking dozens of “trout streams” in North Georgia’s mountains with hundreds of thousands of young trout raised in hatcheries. About ...

There are more than 425,000 acres of lakes across Georgia filled with 265 species of freshwater fish. For new and incoming anglers, that's a lot of water to choose from. That's why Fishmasters, an ...

ATLANTA — Opening up privately held stretches of trout streams in North Georgia to public fishing would ruin a cottage industry vital to the region’s economy, a parade of waterfront property owners ...

Every now and then, it’s nice to fish different places. When my brother, Ken Gustafson of Charleston suggested a fly-fishing trip for trophy rainbow trout, I jumped at the opportunity. Ken had ...

If you get the chance to fish for native brook trout in their home waters, don't pass it up. There’s a lot to like about brook trout – even if they're technically a char, not a trout. They sport ...