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SOUTHERN OUTDOORS, JULY 15, 1946
Carolina Boats Ready
To Try for Tarpon
By EDDIE FINLAY
GEORGETOWN, S. C.—Wright Skinner and Frank Bourne,
charter boat men who have been carrying out parties for
channel bass and other fish for many years, are making plans
to start some tarpon fishing off the jetties on Winyah bay.
Summer home of a hornet colony.
Parker B. Smith
Leaves Georgia
For Tennesee Job
Parker B. Smith, of Elberton,
Ga., has resigned as Federal Game
Agent for Georgia to become Proj
ect Leader (Pittman-Robertson) on
the new Kentucky Lake waterfowl
development area near Paris,
Tenn.
Smith left the U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service after six years of
duty, during which he made an
outstanding record. His successor
in Georgia has not been named.
In his new assignment with the
Tennessee Game and Fish Division
he will supervise a gigantic plant
ing project designed to provide
feeding areas for ducks and g'.ese.
Smith said he felt that Ken
tucky Lake offered him an oppor
tunity to contribute more to wild
life than any work he has done
before. He asked Southern Out
doors to express his appreciation
to Georgia wildlife rangers for co
operation in the past and said that
their work last winter in enforce
ment of migratory bird laws was
more effective than in any pre
vious season since 1940.
He leaves Georgia with the best
wishes of a host of friends and
sportsmen, who are confident that
he will make a big success in Ten
nessee.
There has never been any or
ganized fishing for tarpon along
the South Carolina coast, although
the fish are often seen rolling in
the shallow water or leaping far
ther out. A few tarpon have been
hooked accidentally, with a broken
line or lost fish being the usual
result.
Right now the charter boatmen
are kept so busy taking out par
ties for channel bass that they’ve
been unable to take a day off to
experiment with the tarpon. But
they have the big fish located and
with some of the rigs used in
Florida waters hope to hang some
of the tarpon and start off a
regular tarpon fishing business.
CHANNEL BASS RUN
HARD AND HEAVY
The spring run of channel bass
is holding up well and the boats
whose skippers know the best
“drops” are bringing in fish prac
tically every day.
The fish usually “slack off”
from the latter part of June to
late August, when the fall run
starts, but this year they are
keeping up their activity in the
waters around Winyah bay.
In one day last month two boats
frrm Wright Skinner’s camp be
low Georgetown brought in 65
bass, averaging between 20 and
25 pounds. One boat with five
lines out landed 29 bass weighing
636 pounds in four hours while
the other boat, with 10 fishermen
aboard, had 36. Several of the
fish weighed around 40 pounds.
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For Fox Ears
| DAWSON, Ga.—J. H. Fletcher,
I ordinary of Terrell County, last
week reported that he had paid
$640 in bounties on foxes during
the past three months. The county
i commission pays $1 for each fox
| ear brought to the ordinary’s of-
I fice.
i There was a sharp decline in the
| number of ears “bought” the first
two weeks of July, leading offi
cials to believe that the rabid fox
menace is being' brought under
control.
During a recent epidemic, 40 to
50 cows died from rabid fox bites,
officials reported. Six persons
were bitten and were given anti
rabies treatment. A merchant was
bitten by a fox as he came to open
his store one morning.
DECK GOES DEEP
FOR BIG WALLEYE
CHICKAMAUGA LAKE, Tenn.
—Cliff Deck, of Chickamauga, Ga.,
caught a 28-inch walleyed pike
here last week. He was casting
with a Heddon’s River Runt.
On Chickamauga Creek, Thur
man Daniel, of Cooper Heights,
Ga., captured a 12-pound blue cat
while fishing with a live minnow.
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Strikes for Bembry
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga.—W. F.
Bembry tossed a hook-full of cut
bait into the Flint River the other
day and pulled it out, but not
without a struggle with a 25-
pound blue cat. The big catfish
was 32 inches long.
READY TO RIDE — This actual
photograph shows an adult chorus
frog, scarcely an inch long, perched
on the back of a i^-inch bullfrog,
which was coaxed into delaying his
leap by a short sniff of ether. Either
species is ecceptable to hungry bass.
SUMTER, S. C., CLUB
HAS 1,000 MEMBERS
SUMTER, S. C.—The Sumter County Game and Fish Association,
for years the most active sportsmen’s organization in South Carolina,
has reached a membership of over 1,000.
The organization has supervision of part of the Poinsett state
park area and has carried on a program of game and fish propaga
tion, as well as backing all law enforcement and conservation moves.
Colquitt Fights
Stream Pollution
MOULTRIE, Ga.—Pollution of
streams must be stopped in Col
quitt county and over Georgia.
Members of the Colquitt County
Conservation Club voted to take
action against stream pollution at
their last meeting and President
Ashburn Harper appointed a com
mittee to investigate cause of the
death of thousands of fish in this
vicinity during recent weeks.
Harper said that technical ad
vice will be obtained to determine
the source of pollution and that
steps will be taken to remedy the
conditions.
“Pollution is a menace to both
the health of our communities and
to the fish life in running waters,”
Harper declared. “It must be cur
tailed.”
The club made further steps to
ward carrying out a quail re
stocking project and discussed
plans for building a clubhouse.
When spinning time comes the
silkworm, working continuously
for three days, produces a cocoon
with the reelable thread from 800
to 1,200 yards long.
Black Jack Beaglers
To Hold First Trial
CAMDEN, S. C.—The Black
Jack Beagle Club will hold its
first AKC sanctioned trial near
here on November 4-7.
Judges will be Mark Roberts,
of Walnutport, Pa.; Johnny Burke,
of Apponaugh, R. I.; Vernon Wel
don, of Monroe, Ga., and B. F.
Neese, of Greenville, S. C.
The Black Jack Club was or
ganized last May and now has a
membership of 100. R. B. Blyther,
of Bishopville, is secretary-treas
urer, and will furnish information
on entries for the November races.
The Ojibway Indian name for
the red squirrel is Adjidaumo,
meaning, appropriately enough,
“tail-in-the-air.”
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REYNOLDS, Ga.—A gob of
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Taylor’s Millpond.
Windham won the scrap with the
blackfish after a five-minute strug
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