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Carters: Level: 2.4 feet above full pool. Temp: 48 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Buddy Callahan at Bart’s Bait & Tackle said the tournament weights have been pretty decent. Look for fish to head deep this month into brush that is 40 to 50 feet deep. “The shallow bite is fixing to come to a…
Burton: Level: 7.9 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 40s. Clarity: Clear. Burton’s annual drawdown is nearly over. The lake is down nearly eight feet, but the level should begin to rise in February. The only usable boat ramp on the lake at the moment is at Murray Cove. Bass: Think deep — unless you…
Blue Ridge: Level: 17.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair for smallmouths — and walleye. Most bass fishing is on a spooning bite right now, said mountain-lake fishing guide Nathan Lewis. “The smallmouths are about 40 feet deep, but they should start moving up soon, and a Shad Rap bite…
Blackshear: Level: Full pool. Temp: Low 50s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. The Saturday, January 27 Blackshear Buddies tournament was won by Bob Hudson and Wayne Dunman who went up the river and returned with four bass that weighed 16 pounds. Second place dropped to six pounds; third place weighed in three pounds. “The lake is…
Allatoona: Level: Down 16.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 44-47 degrees. Clarity: Stained to muddy except for clear water from Stamp Creek to the dam and up the Allatoona Creek arm to above Allatoona Pass. Bass: Slow. The water is cold, muddy and the bass are deep. Cold weather this week is expected to result…
The Georgia Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) held a series of eight public meetings in early January to give hunters an opportunity to comment on the state’s hunting regulations before new regulations are finalized. Overall, 285 people attended the meetings. The January 9 meeting in Athens was dominated by a recent dog-shooting incident in Clarke County…
Gov. Sonny Perdue gave his State of the State address at the capitol two weeks ago, outlining his budget proposals for the coming year. For the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), it must have seemed like Christmas all over again. First, the governor is not asking for budget cuts, which means the Wildlife Resources Division…
Spill hot coffee, sue the fast-food establishment. Slip and fall, sue the department store. Not getting your way with a federal or local bureaucracy? Take ’em to court. The litigious nature of our society is amazing and often repulsive. For sportsmen, lawsuits have been extremely harmful. Court actions by anti-hunting and environmental groups have stopped…
These days, hunters throw out terms like G1s and abnormal kicker deducts like everybody knows what they’re talking about. Deer scoring is high interest among hunters in Georgia. The method accepted and recognized by most is the Boone & Crockett (B&C) method. The Boone & Crockett Club is a national nonprofit organization founded in 1887…
The City Council of Darien has passed a resolution to propose legislation that would allow it to annex 20 square miles of state-owned wetlands, including approximately one-third of Altamaha WMA. The city plans to zone the property as conservation land and develop the land for “eco-tourism” including hunting, fishing and bird-watching. The land proposed for…
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