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The state Board of Natural Resources as its May 23 meeting approved the 1991-92 Hunting Regulations after the public had one last chance to comment on the proposed regs. Turnout was light for three Game Management Section meetings held the second week of May. Just 16 people showed up at the Marietta meetings to listen…
Back on April 26 at the Georgia Wildlife Federation Awards Banquet, Gov. Zell Miller outlined a plan he called Preservation 2000. The goal of the plan is to purchase 100,000 acres of Georgia’s environmentally sensitive areas. Last Tuesday he appointed a 15-member panel and assigned them the job of making the plan work, a stiff…
West Point Lake is agruably the best bass lake in Georgia. But it is about 36,000 acres of lake. That is an awful lot of water when you are trying to fish it one cast at a time. Many of us know how to fish and the magazine racks are full of articles telling you…
Barry Massey holds the current Lake Jackson black crappie record with a 3-lb., 8.5-oz. fish he caught on April 16, 1991. See all of GON’s Official Georgia Lake & River Records Requirements For Record Fish • Fish must be caught legally by rod and reel in a manner consistent with state game and fish regulations.…
Jan Allen Ward holds the current Lake Oconee hybrid bass record with a 14-lb., 4-oz. fish he caught on April, 3, 1991. See all of GON’s Official Georgia Lake & River Records Requirements For Record Fish • Fish must be caught legally by rod and reel in a manner consistent with state game and fish…
They came from all over Georgia—Calhoun, Bremen, Griffin, Carollton, Gainesville, Toccoa, Macon, Warner Robins—hundreds of hunters taking time to come to a meeting in Atlanta, concerned about what might be happening to the opportunity to hunt, trap and fish on federal refuges. The Federal Refuges Planning Team came to Atlanta March 11 for a “workshop”…
In the March, 1991 issue of GON, we reported that the state Game Management Section was expected to recommend a 60-day dove season this fall with a 15 dove per day bag limit. You can forget that idea. The public has spoken and what it has said is that a dozen doves a day is…
The 1990 Georgia deer hunting season will go into the books as the state’s best ever for big buck production. So far we know of at least six Boone & Crockett bucks, and they keep turning up, especially from south Georgia. Huey’s Taxidermy in Cordele ended its big-buck contest Feb. 9, and three B&C bucks…
Georgia’s bag limit for firearms deer season is about to increase by 60% for the 1991 season. In their continued effort to reduce the state’s deer population from the current level of approximately 1.25 million deer down to 1 million deer, the Game Management Section is proposing to increase the firearms bag limit from three…
It’s still the golden age for Georgia turkey hunters. For the seventh straight year, Georgia turkey hunters are expected to set a new harvest record, topping last year’s record of 40,000 gobblers. The expansion of the turkey flock and turkey hunting in Georgia is nothing short of phenomenal. In 1973, just 18 years ago, the…
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