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As another legislative session nears a close, law-enforcement officers with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) remain hopeful they will get the same respect, in terms of salary, that other law-enforcement agencies have garnered. Last month 75 conservation rangers showed up at the Capitol to speak with legislators and distribute documents that show the work…
“Let’s pull up here and really fish this hole a minute,” said David Hulsey, manager of Unicoi Outfitters’ Blue Ridge fly shop, while leaning back on the oars to slow the drift boat and drop anchor. The anchor plopped quietly into the water and skidded to a halt as we slid up next to a…
The state record for yellow perch, held jointly between Lake Burton and Clarks Hill for nearly 20 years, has been tied again, and from an unlikely location: the Savannah River. On Feb. 24, Larry Poole of Martinez was on the river below the Clarks Hill dam fishing for yellow perch with Albert Moody, who operates…
April may well be the best month for bass fishing, and West Point may be the best lake in Georgia to catch bass this month. The lake has great spawning coves that attract bass to predictable places, and some simple pat- terns will catch them from late March through the end of April. West Point…
When we think of drought we usually associate it with lack of water. We can also apply the term to the turkey woods when we go through extended periods of “dry” hunting. Let’s face it; there are times when we can’t buy a gobble, especially on heavily hunted public grounds. Those are the places where…
Anglers in Georgia are blessed with an abundance of excellent bass water. Many of our local reservoirs are listed among the famous when it comes to bass fishing. Lanier, West Point, Eufaula, Seminole and others are well known among bass anglers around the country, and many professional tournaments have been hosted on these great reservoirs…
The end of March and beginning of April is a time of year awaited by even the occasional angler. The weather is warming, and anglers are tired of being stuck in the house like a coop full of chickens. One can only rearrange tackleboxes and clean and ready the boat for spring so many times…
Anchored up at one of Wayne Loyless’ honey holes for the white-bass run on the Oconee River, a jonboat idled past, and we were hailed with the customary greeting. “Catchin’ anything?” the man in the front of the boat hollered over the drone of the outboard. “A few,” was Wayne’s remarkably honest reply. We had…
Webster does not define a turkey-hunting honey-hole in the dictionary, so most of us who have one must come up with our own definition. To me, it’s a place in the woods that makes me feel downright warm and fuzzy when I’m there or even when I’m just sit- ting around watching the Outdoor Channel…
Allatoona Reservoir is nearly 12,000 acres of some of the hardest- fished waters in the Southeast, ranking typically in the top five most-visited U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects nationally. Putting bass in the boat with regularity at a lake merely 30 miles from metro Atlanta is, more often than not, a close-kept secret of…
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