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TWO DEER HUNTERS FINED $500
Deer hunting out of season and
at night is a costly pastime in
Clinch County (Georgia).
Two Lake City, Fla., hunters
have learned this the hard way,
and their advice to other violators
is to stay out of Georgia’s Clinch.
Luther Brown and Sam Regis
ter crossed the border from Flor
ida on June 21 prepared to take
home some Okefenokee venison.
But their night hunt backfired
when wildlife rangers from Geor
gia and Florida pulled the strings
to their patrol net.
Ranger Charlie Smith, of Ho-
merville, Ga., and Officers Lester
Mikell and Colon North, from
Florida, apprehended Brown and
Register. They were charged with
hunting out of season and fire
hunting.
Brown and Register pleaded
guilty and awaited sentence. Hom-
erville Court Judge E. J. Smith
conducted the trial. He has es
tablished a record as the No. 1
opponent of game law violations in
Georgia’s judicial circles. He was
in rare form on this case.
Judge Smith imposed fines of
$12;"> each on Brown and Register.
That was for hunting out of sea
son. Then he tagged them $12.'>
apiece for “fire hunting.” Total:
$250 each; $500 for two.
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BARTLETT'S FERRY RAID—Georgia wildlife rangers recently made a big
haul of seines, nets, baskets and traps at Bartlett's Ferry, on the Fl.nt River.
Shown with part of their take are Rangers A. E. Thornton, Jesse Smith,
Coheley, Perkins, J. W. Harrell and Thomasson.
STRIPERS RUN
TO CITY LIMITS
OF COLUMBIA
COLUMBIA, S. C.—The rock-
fish have finally started runing in
the Saluda river above Columbia
and live bait fishermen and cast
ers have been bringing in some
nice fish.
The largest to date was a 19-
pound fish caught in the city lim
its less than a dozen blocks from
the state capitol building, but
many others have been caught be
tween Columbia and the Lake
Murray dam.
Two bait casters brought in a
string of six that averaged 10
pounds, all caught while wading
along the edge and casting into
the current above the pools.
A strong flow of water rushes
through the turbines at the power
house during the week and the
best fishing is to be found just
below the dam but on week-ends
when the water is cut off the fish
are caught in pools along the
river. The bait casters stand at
the head of the pools, casting
downstream with underwater
plugs, preferably a broken back
pikie or some bait with a similar
action.
The live-bait fishermen use a
long cane pole with no float but
a heavy sinker 18 inches or two
feet above the hook. The favor
ite live bait is a gizzard shad or
big shiner.
15 WHITE CRAPPIES
CORDELE, Ga.—S. H. Hatcher
took 15 white crappies from Gum
Creek recently cn live minnows.
The catch weighed seven pounds.
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Letters to the eidtor are invited,
and especially those expressing
views and opinions on conservation
questions. They should not exceed
200 words and must be signed, but
writers’ names will be withhela
upon request.
PICTURE ‘TEST’
Editor, Southern Outdoors; Was
the picture of the clubhouse in
Carroll county where the Carroll
County Sportsmen’s Club met re
cently printed upside down to test
our powers of observation, or was
it an error?
Incidentally, I am a regular
reader of your fine publication and
am wholeheartedly in accord with
your progressive campaign and
views on conservation.
Barney Coogle, Atlanta, Ga.
Editor’s Note; The reflection of
the clubhouse in the lake fooled
our printer. It was just one of
those slips in the dark that often
occur in the publishing racket, and
disproves the theory that pictures
never lie.
RAINBOWS TRAVEL
Editor, Southern Outdoors: A
19-inch rainbow 40 miles from
home! Joe Hallman, of Gaines
ville, Ga., landed a 19-inch rain
bow below the old Dunlap elec
tric plant on the Chattahoochee
River, at least 35-40 miles from
where the fish was released.
This further proves that the
rainbow has the migrating traits
of the salmon. Most of the big
ones doubtless head for bigger
waters. Otherwise trout anglers
would take more large ones in
the headwaters.
A 3 Vh -pounder was caught 10
miles below true rainbow territory
in our Chestatee river in 1945. I
once saw a 24-inch rainbow near
the same spot. There have been
tens of thousands of rainbows
placed in Georgia waters. Where
they go, nobody seems to know.
Don’t you think there is another
species that would give better
results ?
Dr. Clabus Lloyd, Gainesville,
Ga.
Editor’s Note: We wonder, too,
Doc. However, we have long be
lieved that the system of liberat
ing rainbows in Southern streams
has been wrong. Our contention
is that fundamentals—food, cover,
temperature—have been ignored in
most “plantings” of trout. Until
stream surveys can be made by
competent biologists the “dump
ing” perhaps will continue with
the same poor results. Most trout
fishermen are leaning toward
browns for debatable waters,
while some have suggested cut
throats.
TIG SP0KTDG THING
WOMAN CASTER
MACON, Ga.—Mrs. R. L. Rog
ers caught a 3% -pound bass on
a frog-finish topwater plug in
Massey’s Creek.
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SOUTHERN OUTDOORS, JULY 15, 1946