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ATLANTA, GA., MAY 15, 1946
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— NUMBER 22
North Carolina
Gains in Move
For Changes
RALEIGH, N. C.—The two-year-
old North Carolina Wildlife Fed
eration Inc. last week reported
it had 100 affiliating- clubs in 95
counties and that “real progress”
is being made in a campaign to
obtain a Game and Fish Commis
sion operating outside the juris
diction of the Department of Con
servation and Development.
Organized in 1944, the Federa
tion seeks to sponsor legislation
that will create a non-paid Com
mission with the power of ap
pointing a director and of deter
mining the regulations and poli
cies for the propagation and har
vest of game birds and animals
and fresh water fish.
The Federation claims that
hunters and fishermen, who sup
port the state’s wildlife program
with purchase of licenses, have
never had a voice in the adminis
tration of game and fish affairs.
This was the argument that Geor
gia sportsmen used to obtain its
Commission-Director set-up, which
is viewed in North Carolina as
the first step toward a program
that will yield the maximum re
sults for hunters and fishermen
and for game and fish themselves.
An educational program reach
ing schools, 4-H clubs, Future
Farmers and other boys and girls
is the No. 2 objective of the or
ganization.
Persons interested in the work
of the Federation may obtain in
formation from Executive Secre
tary Ross O. Stevens, P. O. Box
1341, Raleigh, N. C.
Officers of the North Carolina
Wildlife Federation Inc. are as
follows:
P. K. Gravely, Rocky Mount,
president; S. B. Coley, Raleigh,
eastern vice-president; A. C. Da
vis, Greensboro, Piedmont vice-
president; Wayne Bramlett, Ashe
ville, western vice-president; E. J.
Stoker, Greensboro, secretary-
treasurer.
ROY MOORE took the limit
of rainbows in Rock Creek
(Georgia) on his first trip of
the season and cleaned his catch
before leaving the stream.
Sportsmen Post Storm Signs;
Organize for Reform Campaign
Walter C. Hiit and a big brown battler which he took from Rock Creek.
Keep on Throwing,
Is HilTs Philosophy
ROCK CREEK, Ga.—If you miss once, or twice, or again,
give him another diet.
Walter C. Hill, Atlanta sportsman, adopted this approach
to his trout fishing problems several years ago and found it
often works.
Hill is one of the South’s most
versatile sportsmen and is just as
much at home behind a pack of
fox hounds as he is in a Chesa
peake Bay duck blind. But he’ll
take a day behind his pair of
pointers in quail coverts for his
No. 1 sport. A close next is a
white ribbon of trout water and a
4-ounce rod to whip it.
Back in 1940 he ended a two-
year quest for a big rainbow in a
Nantahala Forest stream by bring
ing the big fellow to creel after
offering him everything in a fly
fisherman’s book. A small live min
now that had just struck a worm,
caught the rainbow on which Hill
had a “staked claim.”
HOLMES WINNER
Up here in the Chattahoochee
Foriest a combination fly and spin
ner gave him a 1714-inch brown
on ‘the first day Rock Creek was
opSn this season. The brown was
the second largest taken in Geor
gia since this species had been
stocked. Don Zimmerman took a
lff-inch browns in April last year.
A member of Hill’s party, R. M.
Holmes, applied the same “try-im-
Womaek Lands
5-Pound Trout
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Guy
Womack, president of the
- Nashville Casting Club, proved
recently that he’s a fisher
man. He made a jaunt over
to Pine Creek in Central Ten
nessee and came home with a
nice creel of rainbow trout.
His biggest one was a 23 *4 -
inch beauty that tipped the
beam at five pounds. He also
caught two 10 inches, two 13
inches and one 16. He returned
the two smaller fish and is
having the big fellow mount
ed.
again” philosophy and came up
with an 18-inch Eastern brook on
the second day. Holmes hooked the
fish three times on Saturday and
returned to the pool Sunday to
finish the kill.
Charlie Langley, also of At
lanta, landed a rainbow that meas-
Continued on Page 5
Okefenokee Cypress Sought for Sawmills
A proposal to put the ax to
work again in the Okefenokee
Swamp, a national wildlife ref
uge, has been submitted to A1
Day, director of the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
Congressman John S. Gibson,
of Douglas, Ga., and Senator
Walter F. George recently wrote
Day that they were interested
in removing cypress timber and'
stumps from the swamp. They
sought sanction of commercial
operations in the swamp.
Gibson quoted Dr. Ira N. Ga-
brielson, former director of the
■‘Service, as saying that timber
operations in the swamp under
government supervision would
not affect wildlife conservation.
Gibeson wrote Day that he did
not “believe wildlife will be de
stroyed in any manner by cut
ting timber in this area under
government supervision.”
He further quoted Forestry
Service officials as saying that
timber cutting would not be det
rimental to the swamp.
Gibson pointed to the shortage
of railway cross ties and lumber
in the building industry and
urged Day to give his request
“very active attention.”
Several Georgia sportsmen,
apprised of the proposal, dis
agreed with the assertions that
wildlife would not be affected.
They expressed belief that such
an undertaking would further let
the bars down and pave the way
to more destruction of habitat
for desirable species of game
and birds.
OFFICIALS FACE
BIG INCREASE
OF DISCONTENT
Storm signs in wildlife have
been posted from the moun
tains of West Virginia to the
panhandle of Texas and de
velopments in recent months
indicate that sportsmen over
the whole South will intensify
their clamor for revised and
more active game and fish de
partments.
Reports from West Virginia say
that hunters and fishermen, led
by the West Virginia Affiliated
Sportsmen’s Association, are “on
the warpath” with bludgeons
aimed at the neck of a depart
ment which they contend is domi
nated by politics.
Over in Texas scarcity of quail
has provoked a movement, with an
organization known as Bob White
Inc., designed to gain expanded
work on the restoration of the
South’s No. 1 game bird.
TENNESSEE BUILDS
; Between Texas and West Vir
ginia there appear to be few, if
any, satisfied states'. Loudest in
their cry for better hunting and
fishing conditions and control of
predators, are sportsmen in Flor
ida, Mississippi, Virginia and the
Carolinas.
Tennessee, without making much
noise, is methodically building an
organization that will ally 25,000
active hunters and fishermen. The
Volunteers have not said what
they intend trapping, but observ
ers believe they have marked the
spots.
The League of Maryland Sports
men, the busiest state conserva
tion organization South of the
Smith & Wesson line during the
war, has racked up numerous as
sists for game and fish. But the
Old Liners are not satisfied. They
expect to make further headway
Continued on Page 6
Dillinger Plug
Kills Big Striper
The striped bass run up Geor
gia’s streams has slowed, but dur
ing the last few days of April
two catches of “rockfish” were re
ported from widely separated
streams.
S. L. Simmons, of Albany, work
ed over a 25-pounder with a John
Dillinger minnow. He was fishing
near the old power dam on the
Flint River.
At Horseshoe Bend, on the Ogee-
chee River, A1 Cauley, of Millen,
took a 12-pound striper on a set
line.
