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Major changes to deer-hunting regulations enacted by the General Assembly will take effect for the coming deer season. Significant was the change that allows deer hunting to begin one week earlier in September. The upshot is that firearms season will be one week longer than normal. Statewide, archery season will open on September 14, P/W…
If current proposals are carried out by the National Park Service (NPS), hunters who decide to continue traveling to Cumberland Island National Seashore in the future will be in for some big changes. Cumberland Island’s management practices are going through a review by the NPS. In particular, they are looking at how activities relate to the…
A jewel of a lake is nestled in the rolling hills near Eastman. Covering 104 acres, the lake is the main focal point of Dodge County Public Fishing Area (DCPFA) and could appropriately be dubbed “The Fish Factory.” Although the lake receives most of its notoriety from the world-class largemouth bass it produces (a 15-lb.,…
There’s good news if you like the taste of fried trout and hush puppies. You can fill your plate and don’t need a $200 set of neoprene waders and a box of fancy fly-fishing equipment to do it. In fact, it doesn’t take much more than the price of a fishing license and a trout…
For the past 10 years anyone wanting a big spotted bass in Georgia headed to Carters Lake. Reports of 5-lb. plus spots from Carters were common. The hot fishing has cooled just a little, but the lake still produces a lot of quality spotted bass — and May is a great time to catch them. Carters…
A Glenwood turkey hunter received quite a surprise when he walked up to a gobbler he had just shot in Wheeler County this season. The bird had four distinct spurs, two on each leg! “He has two long spurs like a regular turkey, and underneath them, growing separate, is another spur on each leg,” said…
April 6, 2002: Walmart BFL, Oconee Sugar Creek Marina hosted the second of five Walmart BFL tournaments to be fished this season. In a competitive tournament of some of the state’s finest anglers, Jim Murray Jr., of Arabi, took first place with five fish that went 18-lbs., 2-ozs. Jim caught his first two fish on…
The bright yellow buoys that mark Georgia’s offshore artificial reefs are a familiar and welcome sight to anglers who venture into the wide expanse of the open Atlantic Ocean. Despite the confidence we place in our GPS, there is something comforting about seeing a buoy right where your navigation electronics said it would be. Not…
There’s a lot of good news about the right to bear arms that you will never see or hear from big media, because when it comes to gun and gun-control issues, television networks and big-city newspapers tend to lose their objectivity. Some outright censor the news and report only what they think will advance their…
At long last, sport hunting for alligators in Georgia is on the horizon. The Georgia DNR Board of Natural Resources was briefed at its March meeting about plans by the state to open an alligator season in September of 2003. The proposed gator season will offer limited quota hunts on four specific south Georgia areas,…
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