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Fishing
Lake Bennett is one of 22 lakes scattered within the boundaries of the Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center, also known as Clybel WMA. The 70-acre lake is the second biggest on the area, second only to the popular and heavily-fished Lake Fox. Bennett offers good bream and bass fishing. One of the attractive things about Bennett…
With seven years of the annual Moby-In-The-Morning Bass Tournament in the books, there are several things you can count on for this Lake Allatoona event: a huge field of anglers including the top locals, a weigh-in before the biggest crowd of spectators you’ll see at a tournament, and hefty sacks of bass for the top…
Now that the first week of turkey season is coming to a close, you may be left scratching your head. What’s wrong? Maybe you’ve discovered that those special tricks you used last turkey season that nearly had birds running you over just don’t seem to be working that well this season. If you’re in the…
Brad Carroll, of Columbus, caught a 7-lb., 7-oz. monster shoal bass on March 6 that set a record on Lake Oliver, which is a small Georgia Power Co. impoundment on the Chattahoochee River near Columbus.
A unique and interesting wild turkey research project is in its second year at 8,000-acre Di-Lane Plantation WMA and 1,300-acre Alexander Tract WMA, both in Burke County. Wild turkeys have been trapped and fitted with radio transmitters and then followed through the mating and nesting season—and the results so far are bound to be interesting,…
WRD’s Game Management Section made the recommendation of 4 points on a side for the countywide quality deer management restrictions for Talbot County. WRD Biologist Scott McDonald looked at data from more than 300 deer supplied by Talbot County hunters. Based on the data, a 15-inch outside spread restriction, would have protected too high a percentage…
In his annual “state-of-the-city” speech to the Atlanta City Council on Jan. 5, Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell announced the city’s intention to hold firearm manufacturers responsible for injuries and deaths caused by criminal gun use in a lawsuit to be filed sometime this year. Already, state lawmakers have taken steps to try to block the…
Middle Georgia College student Bryan McBride couldn’t wait to get home for Christmas Break. He was thinking about bass fishing at a lake in nearby Lamar County, where he had caught two bass weighing over 11 pounds in September, 1997. Bryan was ready to tangle with a big one again. On Thursday, December 10, 1998,…
The 1998-99 deer season will probably be remembered for many things. The weather was scorching hot and bone dry throughout most of the season, white oaks were barren in many places where the deer season normally revolves around white oak acorns, and most hunters reported an absent, insignificant or off-schedule rut. Who would have guessed…
The opening morning of gun season found most deer hunters climbing up a tree with their favorite deer rifle. Mark Schroeder, of Albany, decided to leave the crowds and spend his gun season opener at Chickasawhatchee WMA with his bow. Even though his bowhunt only lasted 15 minutes, it a hunt that will remain in…
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