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Hunting
If you’ve been staring at your big game tags trying to make sense of what’s printed on the tags and what’s written in the state regs about the season bag limit, what you see isn’t exactly what it appears to be. Those tags that are marked “Archery Only, Antlerless Deer Only,” aren’t. What happened is…
On July 6, three immature peregrine falcons were leased by the Georgia Game Management Section from hacking site on the rim of Tallulah Gorge. Typically the young falcons will remain in the area where they were released for six weeks or so before they migrate out of the area. But one of the young falcons…
If you plant a dove field, the kids will come, or at least that’s what the Game and Fish Division is hoping. To encourage more participation by young hunters, the state is planning its first-ever parent/child dove hunt. The Game Management Section is sponsoring the parent/child dove shoots at Pine Log WMA on Saturdays and…
A Georgia senator has taken the lead in Washington to protect hunters from harassment from anti-hunting groups on national forest lands. Sen. Wyche Flower Jr. (D-GA) last week introduced the “Recreational Hunting Safety and Preservation Act of 1991,” which would assess civil penalties of up to $10,000 for each violation of harassing hunters on national…
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”…
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