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SOUTHERN OUTDOORS, JULY 15, 1946
Lou Williams
Kentucky Lake Needs Plantings
CHATTANOOGA, Term.—Kentucky Lake Tn
West Tennessee and Southwest Kentucky is
destined to become a waterfowling area that
will rank with the finest in the country if it is
properly developed. West Tennessee sportsmen,
headed by Frank Vestal, president of the Ten
nessee Outdoor Writers, are urging the Tennes
see Game and Fish Division to place the area
on a management basis.
It is recommended that the dewatered fringes
of the lake be disked and planted to millet,
chufas and other grasses that are favored by
geese and ducks. The lake, which is TVA’s
newest impoundment, borders the great Missis
sippi flyway, and plantings to foods should at
tract the migrants in great numbers.
We’d like to see the Kentucky and Tennessee
departments join hands with the Fish and Wild
life Service to develop a waterfowl refuge
where managed, shooting will be permitted.
For Shorter Quail Season
If the farsighted conservationists have any
sayso, Tennessee hunters will concentrate their
quail shooting in a shorter season.
Nash Buckingham, famous yamster and au
thor from Memphis, is leading the movement.
He has polled the Game Committee df the Ten
nessee Conservation League on the question.
The season now opens November 25 and Buck
ingham thinks this is too early for the good
of the bob-white. He thinks December 10 is
early enough. He says because of the early
opening, which has been in effect for several
years, the immature birds are slaughtered in
great numbers with the result that they are
vanishing from a section where they have always
been plentiful. With the increase in hunting
pressure, he feels that if we are to hhve good
shooting in West Tennessee, particularly, we
must take steps to give the bob-white greater
protection. One way to do this is to have a
later opening.
If the Game Committee votes favorably on the
question, it is the plan to have the League
push the movement in an effort to get the
authorities to change the season, which, some
say, has to be done by an act of the legislature.
About the only argument thus far presented
against the move is that the earlier season gives
the hunters an extra day of hunting on Thanks
giving which they wouldn’t have if the season
is changed. But if the birds become practically
extinct because of the early shooting, then
what good is that extra day of hunting. This
column hopes that the question is soon settled
by changing the season, since it has been coming
up annually for the past several years.
Valley Captures Writers
Judging by the numerous letters and news
paper clippings from all over the country being
received at OWAA Convention headquarters, the
recent Tennessee Valley Trek was a huge suc
cess. Many of the old-timers, some who have
attended every meeting of the organization since
it was formed, say this Tennessee Valley meet
ing was the greatest ever. The writers were
entertained by the states of Georgia; Mississippi,
Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Louisiana,
and Tennessee. They spent four days sightsee
ing, fishing, boating and eating.
‘Cover Man’ Lands Bronco
Chris. Zahnd, one of Chattanooga’s most pop
ular anglers, whose picture was on the cover of
the May issue of Hunting and Fishing magazine,
caught a largemouth bass recently that weighed
9% pounds. It was one of the largest bass
reported in this section in recent years. The
big fellow was caught in Hiawassee Lake, on
the North Carolina-Tennessee border. Zahnd
expects to enter his catch in Field & Stream’s
national contest.
Tellico Report
Percy Swainson and Charley Craig waded
into Swainson’s Drug Store with 15 rainbows
from North River. Craig took two 16-inchers,
but the fish averaged 11-12 inches.
(Editor’s Note; If any fishermen takes a
24-inch rainbow in the Tellico with a Tellico
Nymph in his jaw, keep the fish, but please
return the fly to Mr. Williams. He reports
losing the monster between Davis Creek and
Beaver Dam. He has recovered from shock
and exposure after the battle.)
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states with $15,376, and South
Carolina is next to the bottom
witit $20,575.
Other allocations are as follows;
Louisiana, $35,224; Alabama, $34,-
090; Tennessee, $33,793; West Vir
ginia, $33,734; Florida, $31,247;
Mississippi, $31,003; Georgia, $29,-
814; Arkansas, $28,686; Kentucky,
$25,631.
Amounts awarded are based on
sales of 1944-45 hunting licenses
and the areas of the states.
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Wildlife Association—construction
of rearing pools adjacent to fish
ing streams.
The sportsmen hope to gain the
support of civic organizations in
Carrollton, Villa Rica and Bowdon,
pointing out that hunting and fish
ing are of great importance to the
recreational and economic life of
every citizen in the county.
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OFFICIAL—George Cook, of At
lanta was field captain during the
Southeastern archery tournament in
Atlanta. H/is preparing to blow the
whistle for bowmen to take the firing
line.
Archers
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each round of six, depending on
the event. Then they must walk
back to the firing line.
Here are the events, with num
ber of arrows shot and walking
distance in yardage:
Clout—36 arrows at 180 yards,
2,160 yards; York—144 arrows at
100, 80, 60 yards, 4,160 yards;
Double-American—90 arrows at 60,
50, 40 yards, 1,500 yards; Wand—•
36 arrows at 100 yards, 1,200
yards. Total 9,020 yards.
The archers scoff at this five-
plus-mile jaunt as a mere tune-up.
They say that 15 to 20 miles is the
average day’s reading on their
pedometers when they go hunting
afield.
In the two other divisions of
the tournament Bobby Smith, of
Atlanta, won the junior title and
Vera Hoover, of Memphis, cap
tured the women’s shoot.
Senion men’s scores: W. D. Wil
liams, 1,952; H. C. Thompson;
1,918; Jack Hyde, 1,907; C. J. Tur
ner, 1,680; J. A. Dulin, 1,501; B.
O. Evans, 1,443; Elmer Erickson,
1,384; B. E. Spencer, 1,273; Wil
liam I. Stevens, 1,173; Jim Mitch
ell, 1,131; J. E. Anderson, 1,018.
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