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Fishing
On Sunday, August 21, Joel Daniel of LaGrange was on Bartletts Ferry with fly-fishing guide Kent Edmonds. The two men headed to the Chattahoochee River to target big striped bass. The fishing was exceptional over the summer with high water flows coming out of West Point due to unusually heavy rain. Many of the striped…
The crappie Wayne Peterman of Butler pulled out of Patsiliga Creek on September 15 would be considered huge anywhere, but it’s a monster for a Taylor County creek. Wayne was fishing a crappie jig in the creek, which drains into the Flint River, and he was catching a few of the standard, hand-sized creek crappie.…
At least along Georgia’s coast, the teal arrived in the nick of time for the opening of the September season. At Seminole the hunting was reportedly slow, and at other places around the state, the teal ducked out before the season began. Altamaha WMA area manager Jason Chapman said he hadn’t seen many teal during…
Georgia’s deer-harvest numbers from last season are in, and they prove what a lot of hunters knew already: the 2004-05 season was an off year for Georgia deer hunting. What the survey numbers say is that deer harvest dropped by 16 percent last year. The buck harvest dropped 15 percent to the lowest level since…
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There are special times when everything fits exactly right for things to work out, and I seem to have once again been extremely lucky. Now there is real hope for sportsmen. Two issues have brought this hope into focus. The first is the action of the Georgia House of Representatives Special Committee on supplemental feeding,…
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Georgia DNR deployed four separate teams of officers from Law Enforcement, Game Management, Fisheries and Parks to Louisiana and Mississippi to assist with law enforcement and body-recovery efforts. A team of 41 officers was deployed to New Orleans on a two-week assignment to assist with search-and-rescue and security efforts.…
Quick quiz… what’s more frightening for the future of hunting and wildlife conservation? Is it that hunter numbers are falling in Georgia, and that the percentage of hunters under 34 years old gets smaller and smaller each year? Or, is it that animal-rights groups like PETA and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) are…
The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and natural resources from game-law violators. On November 20, 2004, opening day of the 2004 duck season, DNR Law Enforcement Cpl. Lee Brown and Sgt. Tony Fox met…
Guess maybe this 13-year-old of mine got it honestly, this passion for scatterguns. He has one of his own, a youth-model 870 that fits him like a glove. But it’s a 20-gauge. And just what’s wrong with a 20 gauge? Why, it’s not a 16. Or a 12. Therefore, sub-par. In his eyes. Now for…
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