Live pool levels for Georgia's great reservoirs — the Corps, Georgia Power & TVA lakes from the Blue Ridge down to the Fall Line. Every tube shows the normal full pool, the current level, the lake's two signature fish (hover for the species, click for 2026 tournaments), and a live bite gauge at left. Scroll down for the Chattahoochee & Toccoa trout tailwaters, the catfish rivers, and the Blue Ridge float rivers.
Hover a fish for its species · click a fish to search that lake's 2026 tournaments
Georgia's two great trout tailwaters: the Chattahoochee below Buford Dam — cold water pulled from Lake Lanier keeps trout alive right through metro Atlanta — and the Toccoa below Blue Ridge Dam. Release-driven: the cylinder shows live flow (cfs), low = wadeable, high = fast water. Hover a trout for the species; tap it for a guide.
Roughly 300–900 cfs wades best below Buford; always check the dam-release schedule before stepping in — generation raises the river fast.
Georgia gives up giant flathead and blue catfish on the Altamaha, Savannah, Flint & Ocmulgee. Live river stage (ft) from NOAA with the action and flood stages marked — rising, off-color water after a rain turns the cats on. Hover a cat for the species; tap it for a guide.
From the Etowah and Broad shoals to the wild Chattooga and the Chattahoochee through Atlanta — clear shoal-bass and smallmouth water. Live USGS gage height (ft); each tube marks FLOAT (minimum floatable), EXPERT (high water) and FLOOD. Hover a fish; tap it for an outfitter.
Mountain rivers are flashy — they jump fast after rain and drop just as quick. The Chattahoochee tailwater is release-driven.