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Bass Fishing Now A Sanctioned High School Sport In Georgia

High school bass fishing is now a sanctioned high school sport in Georgia, with a four-event season starting next January and a state championship offered to high school fishing teams during the 2020-2021 school year. On March 4, FLW, The Bass Federation (TBF) and the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) announced that Georgia has become…

Lazaretto Creek Ramp In Chatham County Get Improvements

Federal, state, and local partners last week enhanced the fixed and floating docks at Fort Pulaski’s Lazaretto Creek Boat Ramp in Chatham County. Lazaretto Creek boat ramp on the south side of U.S. Highway 80 was improved in a partnership between the Coastal Resources Division (CRD) of Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources, Chatham County, and the…

Plotmaster Systems Introduces The New Hunter 500

Wrightsville, GA – The customer spoke and we listened!! You all wanted a heavy duty 5′ foot wide Plotmaster unit that could be pulled with the growing population of small less than 40 hp compact tractors as well as a product that could be used with their larger 4WD UTV’s (700 cc or larger). With…

A Duck Hunter’s Time Out

It is no secret that I love duck hunting. I love my wife and my two wonderful children, but the love of duck hunting causes a man to do some pretty strange things. When my wife asks me a question, I’ll often answer with a duck call. I threw my shoulder out throwing a decoy…

Project WINGS: Incentives For Wildlife Habitat Utility Right-of-Ways

Project WINGS (Wildlife Incentives for Nongame and Game Species) is a unique program designed to create new wildlife lands along gas and electrical transmission lines. Offering cash grants and professional wildlife management advice to landowners, WINGS is committed to rights-of-way brush control and habitat improvement. Electric and gas utility transmission lines span thousands of acres…

Spin John 80 Debuts as SPRO Spy Bait

Kennesaw, Georgia – “Spy baits were invented in Japan where anglers regularly fished in ultra-clear water for heavily pressured bass, but fish that are still relatively active,” said tournament angler and lure designer John Crews. “Spy baits generally have a smaller, heavy body that rocks hard when falling or on a slow retrieve. Props facilitate…

Losing It In 2020!

Look down. See that belly? Thought so. It’s been two months now since you were wrangled into the 2020 diet. That’s the current year, and not the current diet; just so you ain’t more confused now than when you started reading. Oh, there will probably BE a 2020 Diet afore December rolls around. After all,…

Catch Rainbow Trout In Macon This Saturday

The Macon Water Authority (MWA) will host their annual MWA Kids Fishing Derby at Lake Lucas this Saturday, March 7 from 8-11 a.m. in the kids’ fish pond. Registration starts at the pond at 7:30, and a weigh-in to determine winners will be at 11 a.m. No license is required, and the event will be for…

Bowhunting Wild Hogs For Fun And Freezer Meat

I looked at my watch, and it said 3:30. It was a Saturday afternoon, and it was time to load up the 4-wheeler, archery gear, video camera and Lone Wolf climber and head to the swamp. I was hunting on some property provided by Trophy Quest Adventures and Millwood Lodge. I would be filming for…

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