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Holly Creek

Type
Freestone river, Georgia (South)
Designation
Designated trout water
USGS gauges
1 live
Guides
6 nearby
Shops
None listed

Today on the Holly Creek

Reading the gauge…

Regulations & access Guides & shops

Holly Creek is a freestone river in Georgia, listed as Designated trout water by Georgia DNR Wildlife Resources Division (Georgia Sport Fishing Regulations, eRegulations edition).

More about the Holly Creek

1 USGS gauge on the water reports flow. 6 guides nearby are listed here; the nearest destination hub is Blue Ridge & the Toccoa.

Updated · Sources: Trout Streams Destinations by County (designated trout waters), USGS Water Data

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Representative photograph, not this water.
Where it is

Holly Creek is a freestone river in Georgia. Our destination hub Blue Ridge & the Toccoa is 27 mi away in a straight line. Georgia has 4 waters named Holly Creek in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; this page is the stream whose mouth is in Murray County, the one the agency list names.

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Pick one of its USGS gauges and hear from us when the flow moves into or out of its usual range for the date, or crosses a flow you set. We check the public USGS reading every 2 hours and email only when it crosses, at most once every 6 hours. Flow alone is not a fishing forecast or a safety call.

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Where to fish

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Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Georgia WRD interactive locations map

Holly Creek on the map

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Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles

Map of Holly Creek: gauges, shops and guides

RestroomsAccess map

Map of Holly Creek with 1 USGS gauge, and shops and guides with an exact address within 40 miles.

Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors · OpenFreeMap · © OpenMapTiles

Restrooms near Holly Creek

Restrooms near Holly Creek

Restrooms within 2 miles of Holly Creek in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.

No restroom mapped within 2 mi yet — add one you know.

Campgrounds, fishing access sites and boat ramps often have one that isn't on the map yet.

Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.

More water near Holly Creek

  • The Toccoa River below Blue Ridge Dam, flowing past a gravel path and wooded bankDesignated trout waterRepresentative photo · not Coahulla Creek
    Photo credit

    The Toccoa River just north of (downstream of) Blue Ridge Dam, Georgia. Photo: Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Coahulla Creek.

    Coahulla Creek

    Georgia · about 7 mi

  • A small boat dock on the broad lower Hiwassee River at Charleston, with wooded banksSpecial-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Conasauga River
    Photo credit

    The lower Hiwassee River at Charleston, Tennessee (downstream of the trout tailwater). Photo: NPS National Trails Office, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Conasauga River.

    Conasauga River

    Georgia · about 9 mi

  • The Chattahoochee River at Cochran Shoals flowing between green, wooded banksDesignated trout waterRepresentative photo · not Mill Creek
    Photo credit

    The Chattahoochee River at Cochran Shoals, Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Photo: Thomson200, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Mill Creek.

    Mill Creek

    Georgia · about 11 mi

  • The Chattooga River pouring through granite boulders below Bull Pen BridgeSpecial-regulation trout waterRepresentative photo · not Mountaintown Creek
    Photo credit

    The Chattooga River at Bull Pen Bridge, North Carolina headwaters. Photo: Dallas Epperson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Mountaintown Creek.

    Mountaintown Creek

    Georgia · about 13 mi

  • A footbridge over the rushing Nantahala River, with a picnic area on the bankDesignated trout waterRepresentative photo · not Talking Rock Creek
    Photo credit

    The Nantahala River and a footbridge in the Nantahala Gorge. Photo: Nader Moussa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Talking Rock Creek.

    Talking Rock Creek

    Georgia · about 16 mi

  • Abrams Creek flowing over a rock ledge under hardwood forest near the Cades Cove trailheadDesignated trout waterRepresentative photo · not Cartecay River
    Photo credit

    Abrams Creek near the trailhead, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo: Scott Basford (Blinutne), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Cartecay River.

    Cartecay River

    Georgia · about 18 mi

Regulations

About this

Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.

Official designation: Designated trout water

Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout.

The water on the map

About this

Measured from the NHDPlus High Resolution (flowlines and waterbodies) (U.S. Geological Survey, read 2026-11-04) for this water’s own mapped feature. Rounded figures; they describe the channel, not today’s conditions.

Whole Holly Creek, not only this reach.

Length
38.2 mi (36.1 in GA)
Drains
116 sq mi
Drop
2,415 ft · 63.3 ft/mi
Flows into
Conasauga River
Watershed
Conasauga

Public land along it

About this

Areas the Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), public access (U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project, read 2026-11-05) lists as owned or held in easement and open to the public, crossed by the mapped channel of the whole Holly Creek. Boundaries are mapped, not surveyed. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.

5.5 of 36.1 mi on public land

  • Cohutta Wildlife Management AreaState Department of Natural Resources · 5 mi
  • Chattahoochee National ForestForest Service · 0.6 mi

Nothing on this page grants or implies access.

Guides and shops near Holly Creek

About this

Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.

Guides

All Georgia guides

Shops nearby

No shop nearby yet.

All Georgia shops

How these are chosen

Guides whose own website names this water come first, nearest first. After them, fly-focused guides within 40 miles whose website does not name it. Distances are straight-line.

Shops: fly shops first. A distance is shown when the shop’s website gives its location (within 60 miles); otherwise the shop is in one of the towns within 25 miles of the water.

Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories.

Species and hatches

About this

What 6 nearby guide websites mention: what guides advertise, not a survey or a promise of what you will catch.

Named on 6 nearby guide websites

  • Brown trout4
  • Rainbow trout3
  • Smallmouth bass2
  • Trout2
  • Striped bass1
  • Walleye1

When the bugs come off

Regional hatch months: Southern Appalachians
About this chart

17 hatches charted for the region, not measured on this water. From North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.

  1. January: 1 charted hatch
  2. February: 3 charted hatches
  3. March: 5 charted hatches
  4. April: 8 charted hatches
  5. May: 9 charted hatches
  6. June: 8 charted hatches
  7. July: 7 charted hatches
  8. August: 5 charted hatches
  9. September: 4 charted hatches
  10. October: 3 charted hatches
  11. November: 3 charted hatches
  12. December: 3 charted hatches

Midges (all year) · Blue-winged olive (February to March, May, October to December) · Early black stonefly (February to March, October to December) · Blue Quill (March to April) · Quill Gordon (March to April) · Black caddis (April to May) · and 11 more on the chart

How we put this together

Named by guides nearby (within 40 miles), counted from the species each guide lists on its own site. No agency page we hold lists species for this water.

Blue Ridge & the Toccoa

About this

Blue Ridge sits in Fannin County in the north Georgia mountains, above Blue Ridge Lake; below the lake's dam the Toccoa River flows north through McCaysville to the Tennessee line, where it becomes the Ocoee, and Noontootla Creek joins the Toccoa above the lake from the Chattahoochee National Forest.

Destination hub · 27 mi away in a straight line

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Gear checklist

About this

What to bring on a guided float fishing trip: rain gear, polarized sunglasses, sun protection, a dry bag and your license. Most guides supply rods and flies. Estimated prices and where to buy.

A woman rows a drift boat while a man stands in the bow and casts

Guided float trip

Usually supplied by the guide; a 9′ 5–6 weight if you bring your own · Trout on most western float rivers

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Videos for this water (5)

Watch: reading a trout stream

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Seams, shelves and soft water, shown on real rivers.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • How I Learned to Read Water (Fly Fishing)Embedded from YouTube · Mad River Outfitters · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • How To Read The Water with Tom RosenbauerEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Reading the Water to Successfully Locate TroutEmbedded from YouTube · Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on reading water

Watch: nymphing basics

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Indicator rigs, depth and detecting the take.

Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.

  • 90° Nymph RigEmbedded from YouTube · Huge Fly Fisherman · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube
  • Casting with an Indicator & Better Nymphing TechniquesEmbedded from YouTube · The New Fly Fisher · not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear. Watch on YouTube

Not sponsored All videos on nymphing

Fish Tales

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Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Holly Creek.

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Sources for this page

Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.

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All 12 sources and dates

A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.

Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the USGS gauge HOLLY CREEK NEAR CHATSWORTH, GA. Water type is our own classification.