That looks like tough fishing. Does your kayak have pedals? Not critiquing. Love to fish lakes on my kayak. But have found it to be a super labor intensive thing. (I dont use drift socks, trolling motors, etc.)
Yeah, there's a lot of private water on that river, or at least the land around it. There's a few public places that are stocked regularly, and you can usually catch some of those. The private water is usually stocked for their personal fishing, or there are a couple of companies that owns some of it, and you can pay a guide to take you. I have a good friend who works for one as a guide, and he posts some big fish every day almost. Ted Turner owns a big stretch, and a place called "mark of the potter", occasionally it'll rain enough, and some of their big fish will was over their netting, and I've gotten lucky 3 times catching a big one.
So who owns the water? If one person owns land on one side, another person owns the other side, how does that work? Can you pass through private sections in a boat/kayak?
Easy here in Tennessee its the TVA. They routinely 'sue' landowners based upon erosion and precipitation levels, as they say. Unless you are lucky or wealthy enough to truly own your waterfront, bad gnus. The only erosion is what happens to your property every decade or two.
Interesting. Our Brown's migrate up and down stream, and into smaller water based upon the spawn. Spawned out males just crush anything moving fast. Its the equivalent of stripping line for Spanish or Saltly, toothy critters.
I live on a well stocked, private lake in north GA. I'm not or wasn't into fishing at all, but my friend's are, so I will sit there with them on our dock with a pole in the water. They catch medium size trout. I catch sunfish or things so small that they tease me and call what I catch "bait-fish".
I cross the Buford dam every week taking my wife to the Dr. I've never fished that far over on the river, but I see people out in the river wading almost every time. I have friends who have caught some big ones there. God willing, when she is able, I'm going to take some stuff and try it one day after the Dr. As far as the Chattahoochee in general, it's like the soque, it's all around me. I can be at either within a few minutes, and literally live about a mile from where they run together. I don't have access there, but used to, my buddy moved though. Probably one of the best spots I've ever been, and you could catch almost anything.
