Posts by Nick Carter
Lake Russell 63-lb., 4-oz. Striper Bests Georgia And South Carolina State Records
On April 3, Eastanollee’s Terry McConnell caught a Lake Russell striper that pulled a set of certified propane scales to 63 1/4 pounds. That translates to 63-lbs., 4-ozs., which would beat the current Georgia state record. However, because the scales did not read in 1-oz. graduations, Georgia DNR may not accept Terry’s fish as the…
Read More80 Pounds Of Cobia Fury
Picture this: The wind has died to a flutter on a warm spring afternoon, and the mid-day slack of a high tide reveals gentle furrows across the width of the Broad River where it dumps into Port Royal Sound. You’ve been on the water all morning preparing for this one hour, and the sun beats…
Read MoreCobia Are 80 Pounds of Raw Fury
Picture this: The wind has died to a flutter on a warm spring afternoon, and the mid-day slack of a high tide reveals gentle furrows across the width of the Broad River where it dumps into Port Royal Sound. You’ve been on the water all morning preparing for this one hour, and the sun beats…
Read MoreRed Snapper Fishing Banned
An interim rule to close red-snapper fishing in federal waters from North Carolina to Florida was passed in a 7 to 6 vote by the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) the first week of March. Once approved by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMF), the ban could begin as early as June, a devastating…
Read MoreLake Seed Record Largemouth
Friday the 13th wasn’t an unlucky day for Johnny Appling, of Buford. On Friday, March 13 in 2009, Johnny caught a 14-lb., 4-oz. lake-record largemouth on Lake Seed. He might attribute it more to persistence than luck, but Johnny caught the Lake Seed record while fishing a Sworming Hornet Fish Head Spin with a white…
Read MoreNew Licensing, Boater Registration Systems Experiencing Start-Up Glitches
It was a bumpy start for DNR’s new outsourced licensing and boater-registration systems, but DNR officials say they are ironing out the glitches. “It’s doing as fine as possible for as complicated a system as we have,” said Licensing and Boater Registration Program Manager David Neyhart. “In the beginning, there were definitely issues where we…
Read MoreTournament Tactics For Bigger Lake Sinclair Crappie
Crappie-tournament anglers don’t care about taking home a cooler full of fish for the fryer. Loading the boat is not the goal. A tournament angler is looking for just seven fish. The seven fattest, heaviest slabs on the lake. That may seem silly to your average weekend slab seeker. Trolling a circuit on a February…
Read MoreUnicoi Lake Producing Monster Bass
The north Georgia mountains are more likely to be equated with trout fishing than gigantic largemouths, but the cold, clear waters have created some California-style bass fishing on the 53-acre Unicoi Lake at Unicoi State Park, and a pair of Cleveland buddies has figured out how to catch them. On Oct. 22, Levi Garrett landed…
Read MoreConservation Ranger Shot by Deer Hunter in Chatham County
After being shot in the chest by a deer hunter on Thanksgiving evening in Chatham County, WRD Conservation Cpl. Curtis Wright, 56, of Savannah is in stable condition and expected to make a full recovery. Chief of Law Enforcement Col. Terry West said the incident appears to be a case of the shooter, Lynn Jeffers,…
Read MoreLake-Record, 36-lb. Blackshear Appaloosa Caught On Jigging Spoon
Living on Lake Blackshear, Mike Bullington used to be involved in the bass-tournament scene, but an unusual pattern he discovered three years ago while fishing for deep bass has turned him into a catfish angler for a couple months each year. That pattern landed him the new lake-record appaloosa (flathead) catfish on Nov. 2, 2008,…
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