Fishing near Athens, GA

Set in Clarke County, Athens sits where the Middle and North Oconee Rivers wind through town before converging into the Oconee River. The urban reach offers wade and kayak fishing for bass and catfish, while reservoir anglers head south to Lake Oconee, a 19,000-acre Georgia Power impoundment, or northeast to Lake Hartwell and Lake Richard B. Russell on the Savannah River system.