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It won’t be long now when crisp, cool mornings greet the camo-clad thousands who still enjoy the legacy and passion of Georgia hunting. It’s time to make plans and get ready for another season. It’s also time to get more kids involved in the great tradition of hunting, and a growing line-up of free…
This year lawmakers passed a bill that makes it legal to have scopes on muzzleloaders during the primitive-weapons week of deer season, and also on primitive-weapons hunts on Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs). In previous legislative sessions, bills that addressed the issue of scopes on muzzleloders were complicated when more-controversial measures like baiting and dog-hunting changes…
The Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) recently held a two-day event at the Ocmulgee River Gun Club. The shoot was held on June 10th and 11th; registering 71 in the skeet competition and 47 in the sporting clays competition. Both events were split into five classes: rookie, junior-novice, junior-experienced, senior-novice, and senior-experienced. Cloud-free skies offered…
At daybreak, Saturday June 10, two years and a day from breaking ground, the Ocmulgee PFA opened to the public and the opening-day fishing was fantastic. Hazlehurst angler Glen Soloman was so excited about his day on the lake he sent this account: “F1 Tiger Bass. Bam! Coming to you at the new Ocmulgee Public…
The state-record for flathead catfish has been broken. On Thursday, June 22 Carl Sawyer of Screven pulled a monster catfish out of the Altamaha that weighed 83 pounds — smashing the previous record of 67-lbs., 8-ozs. Carl and fishing buddy Ben Poppell of Jesup were camping on a sandbar and catfishing. Thursday evening they were…
Since 1991 Tifton Kiwanis have organized an annual kids fishing event (KFE) with Paradise Public Fishing Area (PFA) located near Tifton between Brookfield and Enigma. Registration began at 7:30 a.m. on June 10, 2006 as children 15 years and younger gathered with families to experience a good, fun, outdoor adventure. Event chairs Alfonzo McCalley, Mike…
A four-foot-long blue catfish caught from the Chattahoochee River below the Columbia Lock & Dam has broken a state record that has stood for more than 26 years. On April 1, 2006, James Tyus of Brinson and his brother Eric went to the Lake Andrew tailrace to try out the fishing. “A buddy had told…
Targeting gar over carp proved to be the winning strategy at the Georgia Bowfishing Association’s first annual state championship. The 12-hour, nighttime bowfishing tournament was held from 7 p.m. Saturday evening May 20 through 7 a.m. Sunday May 21 at Lake R.B. Russell. Eighteen three-man teams from Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and North Carolina participated…
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by anti-hunters that seeks to outlaw hunting on 37 units of the National Wildlife Refuge System. “The case is totally without merit,” said Rick Story, senior vice president for the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation, which manages the Sportsmen’s Legal…
The Thomas County shotgun team overcame gusty winds on Saturday, May 20 at the Tom Lowe Shooting Grounds in Atlanta to win the 4-H State Championship in the Seniors Division of Trap & Skeet. The 4-H shotgun teams from 13 counties participated in the state championship skeet and trap competition. The teams consisted of 56…