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Fishing
The new Paradise Public Fishing Area will open Sept. 22. The area, once known as Patrick’s Fishing Paradise, was acquired last year though the DNR’s Land Acquisition program. Paradise PFA, located 8 miles east of Tifton on Highway 82, contains more than 75 ponds ranging in size from less than 1 acre to 112 acres.…
As expected, David J. Waller has been named the new Director of the DNR Game and Fish Division. The Board of Natural Resources approved the appointment at its Aug. 29, 1990 meeting. Waller succeeds current Director Leon Kirkland who retires later this year. Kirkland will assist in the transition. Waller has a strong background in…
Friday, Aug. 16, 1990 began as a normal day for John Rawlins, 17, of McRae. It was a typical summer day in Telfair County, hot and muggy. John’s father was cutting the grass at a tract of land they own, and John, an avid deer hunter, decided to do a little pre-season scouting. John has…
The backwater slough of Lake Hoocheekoochee was only about as dark as the inside of a cow as Bubba gave frantic instructions: “How we ever gonna catch anything in here with you banging that paddle off the side of the boat, Skeet? You’ll scare everthang within castin’ distance into the next county by the time…
In the pitch black darkness you could barely see your hand in front of your face as the two conservation rangers eased their boat up to tie off. Rangers John Bentley and Ernest Hooks were on the coastal island to investigate a report of night hunters poaching deer from the island. The two rangers were…
Scott Webb and Cliff Scott, of Woodstock, were putting in near the mouth of the Etowah River at Lake Allatoona on July 9, 1990 when they saw what appeared to be a large fish floating on the surface about 100 yards away. “We got about halfway to it when Cliff stammered, ‘That ain’t no fish……
For lawman Glynn Christian, it was one of those rare days. There was no worry of working bloody, heart-breaking traffic accidents; no robberies or break-ins; no subconscious fear of some off-the-wall bat brain going bonkers and ruining everybody’s days with a tire tool or a more sophisticated and conventional weapon. It was a full moon,…
On April 9, 1990, Lonnie Bradley, of Statesboro, grabbed his Zebco 404, bought some crickets and headed for Lotts Creek in Bulloch County to catch a mess of bream. He did just that… and more. Lonnie came home with a new state record and a line class world record for a 1-lb., 7.36-oz. redbreast sunfish.…
Red wolves may be released in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the state lines of Tennessee and North Carolina if research shows the park to be suitable habitat. The red wolf once ranged across the Southeast but has been exterminated from most of its former range by aggressive predator control and habitat loss.…
As soon as the jig ‘n pig hit the water, all three of us in the boat saw the massive swirl as a fish turned and swam toward the bait. A huge wake emerged, cutting a path through the shallow water. We all held our breath as the wake sped toward the spot where the…
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