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Start planning your fishing adventures for the new year and be sure to review the updated 2022 Georgia Sport Fishing Regulations Guide, says the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD). “Whether you are brand new to fishing or an experienced angler, you can always find something of interest in the Sport Fishing…
From the time I was old enough to crawl into a plywood boat on the Ocmulgee River, there’s one thing I was taught NOT to do: make noise. So why is this striper guide constantly rapping on the floor of his Ranger with the rubber-tipped butt end of a sawed-off walking cane? Because he’s learned…
Commercial fishermen can take to the water beginning at 12 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2022, to take advantage of the opening day of shad season, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD). Shad season is scheduled to run through midnight on Mar. 31, 2022. “Fishing effort was down a bit…
Editor’s Note: Below is the story of the catch—and release— of the new state-record shoal bass caught Dec. 23, 2021 on the Chattahoochee River near Columbus by angler Matt McWhorter. The shoalie weighed 8-lbs., 5-ozs. on certified scales in front of witnesses, including DNR Law Enforcement Cpl. Eric Isom. The below story is written by…
January’s cold temperatures reduce boat traffic, but that cold only increases spotted bass activity on Lake Allatoona. Fish rocks and brush in ditches and channel edges 25 to 30 feet deep for numbers of fish, or go deeper for bigger fish. Either way, it is a good time to be on Allatoona. With 12,000 acres…
Educating customers to exactly what a business does is an important component of every business model. WRD Fisheries is no different. The truth be told, however, WRD Fisheries employees find educating youth on how it manages fish especially fun. Fisheries staff have made youth education an important responsibility in that education effort. That means taking the…
When you think about fishing on Lake Lanier in December, visions of big striped bass on the end of your line likely come to mind—at least before a shellcracker flopping in the boat would. Michael Madryga, of Cumming, and his son Blair, 25, were fishing Lake Lanier Dec. 12 when they put a new lake-record…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a pair of news releases yesterday with information for those interested in turning their live Christmas trees into fish habitat. The drop-off locations are in various locations around West Point and Allatoona. Lake-specific information is below. West Point Christmas Trees The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at West…
Georgia has stocked 2,000, 10-inch largemouth bass into West Point Lake, and fishermen will be able to tell if they catch one of those fish. The bass carry a brand that makes them easy to identify. “We freeze brand them with dry ice,” said Brent Hess, Fisheries Biologist II from the District I office in…
It’s often been said that fishermen are the biggest advocates in the preservation of the very fish they set out to catch. Members of the Georgia College Bass Fishing Team certainly proved that Monday as nearly a dozen of them worked to get a bass—later guessed by WRD Fisheries biologists as a cross between an…
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