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Small Lake Profile: Flat Creek PFA

Build a good Public Fishing Area, and the people will come! In 2014, the DNR reported that Flat Creek had more than 40,000 visitors, and that included fishermen, hikers, archers, scout groups and others who just come out to enjoy the scenic location. Max Wood, the PFA manager, is a 35-year veteran of DNR service,…

Small Lake Profile: Hugh Gillis PFA

Hopefully, a good Public Fishing Area should get better with age, and due to good management from WRD and strong public support, Hugh M. Gillis PFA, near Dublin in Laurens County, is living up to that potential. The 109-acre lake, which opened in 2004, looks like a large fertile farm pond. It’s shaped like a…

17-lb. 9.6-oz. Giant Bass From Coweta County

Keith Watkins, of Douglasville, will always remember the day he turned 51 years old. For Keith, it’ll go down in his life story as the day he caught a 17-lb., 9.6-oz. largemouth bass and claimed the No. 4 spot on GON’s Georgia’s Biggest Bass of All-Time list. Keith was spending his birthday in the boat…

Evans County PFA Is Back Open For Business

Up-and-coming. Again. Perhaps that is the best way to describe Evans County PFA, one of Georgia’s oldest state-managed public fishing areas—which at the same time is also one of its newest. “This is one of the first public fishing areas the Department of Natural Resources opened up, back in the 1970s, when we first started…

11 1/2-lb. Bass Bought By Tournament Anglers

A pair of anglers in a July 12 bass-club tournament at Banks Lake bought an 11 1/2-lb. bass and presented it for the tourney weigh-in. They might have even gotten away with it, but apparently the agreed-upon price for the fish changed when the pair didn’t win as much money as they thought they would.…