Buford Dam

Chad Doughty sets new state record with big brown trout

Big Brown Trout caught in Chattahoochee River becomes new state record

Catching a big fish is awesome, how about if the first fish you catch that day is a new state record? Chad Doughty, age 27, of Winder hooked and “battled” the new state record brown trout for about 45 minutes while kayak fishing on the Chattahoochee River below Buford Dam on July 27. 

The shoreline of Lake Lanier off Laurel Park in 2001 showing the top rows of the old concrete grandstand of Looper Speedway. Special Photo

Secrets and Legend All a Part of the Lake Lanier Folklore

From out of Habersham it comes, stretching between the cracks and crevices of the North Georgia mountains like an uneven pane of mirrored glass, some twenty-six miles long and covering almost 47 miles of original riverbed, reflecting back the sky and hiding its precious secrets from all who try to pry.