Posts by Rob Pavey
Mystery Photo Re-ignites Debate Over Georgia’s World-Record Largemouth Bass
A new mystery has emerged that could shed new light on the elusive story of the world-record bass landed in Georgia in 1932. June 2 marked the 81st anniversary of the day a young farmer named George W. Perry cast his only lure into Montgomery Lake, an Ocmulgee River oxbow in Telfair County, landing a…
Read MoreTwo World-Record Bass Connect in Telfair County
Manabu Kurita says landing a world-record bass in his native Japan two years ago hasn’t changed his life drastically — but it has certainly changed his life. “In Japan, for me, it isn’t much different at all,” the 34-year-old auto service worker said through an interpreter during a recent visit to Georgia. “But the…
Read MoreQuail Unlimited Faces Uncertain Future
Quail Unlimited, the nation’s primary conservation group dedicated to bobwhite quail, is working to reorganize its ranks amid financial turmoil and a series of personnel changes and resignations. The 28-year-old non-profit, which has been headquartered in Edgefield, S.C., ever since it was established in 1981, has also placed its national headquarters building and adjoining property…
Read MoreRambling Cougar Takes A Tour Of Georgia
A 5-foot-long, 140-pound vasectomized cougar that wandered into Georgia from a Florida wildlife experiment last fall reaffirmed what wildlife authorities have insisted for decades. “If you think you’ve seen a cougar, you probably didn’t see a cougar,” said Vic VanSant, a Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologist, ‘This cat was in Georgia six months,…
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