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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…
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…
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…
The state budget, and specifically how Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed 4% budget cuts will affect the state, has dominated the Georgia legislative session thus far. We expected a quiet legislative session in terms of proposed bills that could impact hunting and fishing in Georgia. So far it’s been quiet on all fronts, and not just…
The second of two scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck Contest and the GON Youth Big-Buck Contest was held in Madison on Saturday, Feb. 15. From among the more than 700 entries during the 2019-20 deer season, we now have the numbers crunched and know which hunters are in line to make the prestigious trip to the Outdoor Blast for…
The second of two scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck and Youth Big-Buck contests was held in Madison on Saturday, Feb. 15. We measured the racks for 53 youth 15 and younger who showed up to have their bucks scored in the hopes of moving on to the GON Youth Big-Buck Shoot-Out on Friday, July 24 at the…
Editor’s Note: Since this article was written last week, many more Georgia counties have acted. See the map below for updated look. There are now 11 counties here in Georgia—and counting—that have taken a very public stance in support of the Second Amendment and in defiance of gun-control efforts. It’s something that is happening across…
A sold-out fundraising banquet on Friday evening, Feb. 7, and a snowy pheasant shoot the following day offered testament to some fantastic work being done for special kids and families. For more than 15 years, Outdoor Dream Foundation (ODF) has been making outdoor adventures come true for kids with chronic illnesses. More than 1,000 kids…
Rain may be a good thing, but enough is enough. The water at many Georgia reservoirs is outside the banks and up into parking lots—the picnic-table pattern may emerge for bass anglers the next few days. However, you might have trouble launching your boat. Many boat ramps at Lake Lanier are already closed, and anglers…
With assistance from state and regional agencies, four counties in southwest Georgia have installed signage to address contamination associated with the illegal dumping of deer carcasses. The Pataula Creek watershed, located in Stewart, Quitman, Randolph and Clay counties, contains several stream segments which are listed as impaired by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) for…