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"The following fishing re
port Is compiled each
week by the Houston
Times Journal. Lake,
weather and fishing con
ditions are reported by
telephone from contacts
listed at the end of each
report, if you would like
additional lakes or rivers
listed, please call the
newspaper at 987-1823. If
you would like a free picture of a catch you are proud
of printed in the paper, we will be happy to shoot and
publish the photo.
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Hannon’s best hunting and fishing days and hours
SOLUNAR/LUNAR TIMES
Perry Georgia Area
" SOLUNAR TIMES LUNAR TIMES
1994 A. M. P. M. Longitude 83.44 Latitude 32.28
M*x_ Minor Haior Minor Major Sunrise Sunset Moonßlae Moon up Moon Dow
1 Tue 08:17 02:03 08:45 02:31 07:01 06:30 10:58p 03:32e 04:00p
2 Hed 09:20 03:05 09:49 03:34 07:00 06:31 04:28a 04:57p
3 Thu 10:22 04:08 10:52 04:37 06:59 06:32 12:05a 05:27a 05:56p
4 Pri 11:23 05:08 11:52 05:37 06:57 06:32 01:09a 06:25a 06:53p
5 Sat 12:01 06:05 12:19 06:33 06:56 06:33 02:07a 07:22a 07:50p
6 Sun 12:44 06:57 01:11 07:24 06:55 06:34 03:00a 08:17a 08:43p
7 Mon 01:33 07:45 01:58 08:11 06:54 06:35 03:47a 09:09a 09:34p
8 Tue 02:18 08:30 02:42 08:54 06:53 06:35 04:28a 09:59a 10:22p
9 Hed > 03:00 09:12 03:23 09:35 06:51 06:36 05:05a 10:45a ll:08p
10 Thu > 03:41 09:52 04:03 10:14 06:50 06:37 05:38a 11:30a 11:52p
11 Erl > 04:23 10:33 04:44 10:55 06:49 06:38 06:10a 12:13p
12 Sat N 05:05 11:15 05:26 11:36 06:48 06:38 06:41a 12:55p 12:34a
13 Sun > 05:48 11:59 06:10 12:01 06:46 06:39 07:12a 01:38p 01:17a
14 Mon > 06:34 12:24 06:56 12:45 06:45 06:40 07:44a 02:21p 01:59a
15 Tue > 07:23 01:12 07:45 01:34 06:44 06:40 08:18a 03:05p 02:43a
16 Hed 08:13 02:01 08:36 02:24 06:43 06:41 08:55a 03:51p 03:28a
17 Thu 09:04 02:52 09:28 03:16 06:41 06:42 09:34a 04:38p 04:14a
18 Pri 09:56 03:44 10:21 04:09 06:40 06:43 10:18a 05:27p 05:02a
19 Sat 10:49 04:36 11:14 05:01 06:39 06:43 11:06a 06:17p 05:51a
20 Sun 11:40 05:27 12:01 05:53 06:37 06:44 11:59a 07:07p 06:42a
21 Mon 12:04 06:17 12:30 06:43 06:36 06:45 12:55p 07:59p 07:33a
22 Tue 12:53 07:06 01:19 07:32 06:35 06:45 01:55p 08:51p 08:25a
23 Hed 01:40 07:53 02:06 08:19 06:34 06:46 02:59p 09:43p 09:17a
24 Thu 02:26 08:39 02:52 09:05 06:32 06:47 04:04p 10:35p 10:09a
25 Pri > 03:12 09:25 03:38 09:51 06:31 06:47 05:10p ll:28p 11:01a
26 Sat > 04:00 10:13 04:27 10:40 06:30 06:48 06:18p 11:54a
27 Sun F 04:52 11:06 05:20 11:33 06:28 06:49 07:28p 12:21a 12:49p
28 Mon > 05:49 12:01 06:18 12:04 06:27 06:49 08:38p 01:17a 01:46p
29 Tue > 06:52 12:37 07:21 01:06 06:26 06:50 09:49p 02:15a 02:45p
30 Hed 07:57 01:42 08:28 02:13 06:24 06:51 10:56p 03:15a 03:45p
31 Thu 09:04 02:49 09:34 03:19 06:23 06:51 04:15a 04:45p
Major=2 hours/Minor=l hour Accuracy to 1 minute
> Indicates peak activity.
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Fishing forecast
Freshwater forecast
Seminole Lake is at maximum pool and stained. Surface water
temperature has dropped to 54 degrees. The midweek weather
limited most fishing, but bass fishing was extremely strong over the
weekend. Bass were taken using RatLTraps and crankbaits.
Speckled perch catches have been numerous, especially in the
shallow areas.
- Reported by Jack Wingate, Wingate's Lunker Lodge
Blackshear Lake is at normal level and muddy. Bass and
crappie fishing has been good. Both are beginning to move
shallow. Crappie is still being found in deeper waters. Catfish are
still plentiful, taking worms and chicken livers.
- Reported by Sonny Coleman, Mitchell's Balt and
Tackle
Sinclair Lake is at normal level and muddy. Bass fishing is
good, despite the rain, hitting crankbaits and worms back into the
Little channels and around wooded areas. Bass have also been
hitting at the points. Crappie fishermen are having success trolling
with jigs. White bass and hybrids have been fair to good, using a
Ditto 9 plug. Some hybrids are hitting white Model A Bombers.
Lastly, catfish are plentiful taking cutbait and live worms. Surface
water temperature has cooled into the mid 50s.
- Reported by Glenn Colwell, Little River Park
Jackson Lake is down two feet and muddy. Fishing was solid
over the weekend but has slowed with the recent rains. Crappie are
hitting live minnows over brushpiles and under bridges. Bass
fishermen are having success with natural colored shadraps and
bubble-gum worms.
• Reported by Van Kersey, Kersey's Marina
West Point Lake level is approximately five feet below full pool
and stained. Surface water temperature is approximately 50
degrees. The rain has slowed fishing a bit, but iargemouth bass
action remains good. The bass are moving into the coves and
creeks and are hitting RatLTraps and spinnerbaits. Crappie fishing is
still good, hitting green and yellow jigs or live minnows. Hybrids are
schooling near the dam and some large stripers are also beginning
to school. Watch for the seagulls to spot the fish. Bucktail jigs are
working best now.
- Reported by George Marovlch, Highland Marina
Eufaula Lake is at normal level and heavily stained to clear.
Surface water temperature is in the upper 50s. Bass fishing has
been good, hitting spinnerbaits, jig and pigs and medium
crankbaits. The bass are starting to move shallow. Crappie have
been excellent, trolling in the mouths of the creeks in 7-8 feet of
water. Crappie have also been taking live minnows. Hybrids still
haven't moved out into the main lake yet.
- Reported by Charles Ingram, Tom Mann Outdoors
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Prime Time Fishing? Not Yet
We spent a couple of days last
week on Lake Oconee trying to
figure out where the bass were
hiding. They sure weren't where we
thought they should be.
The water temperature was just
hovering around the 50-10-52 degree
mark. It was just cold enough to
keep them from being shallow and
warm enough to make us think
there had to be some around here
someplace.
What we did find was that the
bass and crappie were still anywhere
from 17 to 25 feet deep. This all
depended on what area of the lake
we were in. For two days, we
worked the pockets, flats, long
points and various humps. Only a
few small buck bass were caught
for the most part
We did happen to come upon
two nice bass fishing rattle traps
over a 25-foot flat somewhere on
the lake. After we fish our
tournament this weekend, I'll be
The Proper
Methods Of
Espaliering
Tim L
\g m Lewis
|||l Ag. instructor,
Perry High School I
Espaliering is the art of training
plants to grow in a fixed pattern or
shape against a vertical plane. This
may be done on a wire, a trellis, or
against the wall itself.
If possible, espaliers should have
at least six to 12 inches between
them and the wall to allow room
for roots to form away from the
wall and to give the plant a better
chance to catch rainwater.
Slow-growing plants are the best
candidates for espaliering. These
include fruit trees such as apples,
citrus, figs, kiwi, pears, and plums.
Ornamental choices include azalea,
camellia, Benjamin fig, forsythia,
gardenia, magnolia, mock orange,
pyracantha, flowering quince, star
jasmine, viburnum, wisteria, and
yew.
Apples arc popular subjects for
espaliering. Here's how to train an
apple tree on wires against a wall.
1. Space gauge galvanized wires
18 inches apart across a wall.
2. Plant a single-stemmed bare
root apple tree. Then cut it off 18
inches above the height of the first
wire. This pruning will stimulate
the three buds just below the cut.
Any other buds that develop should
be removed.
3. During the first growing
season, train shoots from two of
the buds onto the wire. Let the top
bud develop as the main stem. The
two developing side branches
should be tied along the wire in
opposite directions. Continue to
remove buds that develop on the
trunk below the branches.
4. The following winter, cut the
developing trunk off just below the
second wire. This will activate
another three buds. Train these as
before: two to the side branches,
Most Support Hunting
The debate over the acceptability
of hunting continues to spark
emotional sparring between hunters
and non-hunters. However, both
groups would be interested to know
that a majority of the major
conservation and preservation
organizers polled by the National
Shooting Sports Foundation
indicate they support regulated
hunting.
The National Wildlife
Federation, the Wildlife
Management Institute, the Wildlife
Society, the National Audubon
Society and the Sierra Club are just
a few of the notable organizations
in the poll which recognize
hunting's place in wildlife
management
The support of the conservation
and preservation organizations is
one of the three facts to emerge
from the pro and con arguments on
hunting, according to the NSSF.
The remaining two facts are:
(1) There are clearly some
hunters who do not deserve the
right to hunL They are lawbreakers;
they arc not sportsmen in any sense
Please see HUNTING, page 9A
Houston Times-Journal
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Susanne Andel
more precise. This same area was
full of shad and crappie about the
same depth as the bass were.
The weekend kicks off the new
season for the Georgia Division of
the Guys and Dolls Tournament
Trail. We’ve been fishing this trail
about 12 years. For those of you
who have not had the opportunity
to hear about this trail, we’ll give
you a brief rundown.
It is designed around a man and
woman team, not necessarily man
and wife. In fact, there are
father/daughter, mother/son, as well
as boyfriend/girlfriend teams. It is a
great way to spend quality time
with each other as well as compete
Cordon training
spreads the branches
out in horizontal
tiers. This is a double
cordon. As many as
5 wires may be used.
Candelabra. Begin
as for a cordon,
then bend the branch
tips up and pinch
them to force buds to
break there.
Palmette. Pinch the
leader below each
scire to force 3 buds
to break. Fan shapes
are similar, but all
branches come from
the same spot.
Double lattice.
This is a good way
cover a wall. For
easy training, tie it
a latticework lath
fence.
one as the trunk to the next wire.
5. Repeat this process yearly
until you reach the highest wire.
Keep all branches growing across
Many wildlife and conservation organizers recognize
hunting ee e eucceeeful from of wildlife mensgement.
Page 8A
- Saturday, March 5,1994 "Houston Timos-Journal
for money and prizes and a chance
to be one of the lucky 12 couples
which get to fish in the
championship for a full-rigged
Ranger boat and trailer.
Right now, there are three states
involved in this trail. Florida and
Alabama are the other two states
which now have a trail and each of
those states sent its top 12 couples
to the same championship.
At the moment, Terry and
Sandra Corsey are looking at two
more states which have shown
interest in starting a trail. Maybe
soon, it will be five states strong.
If you are interested in fishing
these tournaments, please contact
us for applications. If you miss
getting us, then come to Lake
Oconee and Sugar Creek Landing
this Saturday before 6 a.m. to join
and fish with us. Be sure to ask for
us when you get there and we’ll get
you right in.
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the plane formed by the wire,
removing any stray branches.
See the following illustrations
for examples of espaliering.
We would like to have some of
the better bass fishermen from this
area to join up. Right now, we are
the only couple from Perry that
fishes the trail. There is another
couple from Bonaire, Jim and
Nancy Windham, which fishes with
us. It sure would be fun to have
about four or more couples from
this area to travel with.
We fish five tournaments a year.
This year, we are fishing Oconee,
Westpoint, Lanier, Clarkhill and
Sinclair. Terry and Sandra try to
shift the lakes around and fish
different lakes, which may include
Eufaula and Blackshear.
Better fishing is on the way, but
I still think we have to contend
with March and that can always be
a killer. Like we’ve told you,
Winter's not over until Easter.
Until next time we've gone
fishing.
Moving Fish
Could Be
Dangerous
There is a growing problem in
Georgia's waters. During routine
fish samplings, fisheries personnel
from the Department of Natural
Resources, Wildlife Resources
Division are finding species of fish
in lakes and reservoirs where they
previously were not found. In most
instances, these fish were moved by
well-meaning anglers. However,
not only is this action illegal, but
it often causes irreversible damage
to the new habitat and the animals
that live there.
A good example is the situation
that occurred during the freezing
winters of the 1970’5. The
threadfin shad that had been stocked
by the Wildlife Resources Division
as forage for predators began to die
off in Lakes Jackson, Lanier, and
Allatoona when the water
temperatures dropped below 45
degrees. Fisheries biologists
informed anglers that die-offs are a
natural occurrence that can
stimulate and actually increase the
number of small shad available to
young largemouth bass, crappie,
and other predatory fish. However,
some well-meaning anglers took
matters into their own hands and
introduced gizzard shad to these
lakes. While gizzard shad are also
an important food for predatory
fish, they grow larger than threadfin
shad. A problem develops when
gizzard shad grow larger than the
predator species can eat. They
become over-populated and, because
they exceed their food supply, their
reproduction slows or stops. The
large shad also compete with
species such as bluegill for food.
The end result is a smaller bluegill
population and fewer predators such
as bass and crappie because there are
not enough small fish for them to
eat
More recently gizzard shad
appeared in Carters Reservoir where
neither threadfin shad nor gizzard
shad were previously found.
Carters Reservoir had an excellent
bream population, something very
rare for a reservoir and a unique
feature drawing anglers to the area.
The predator population has
improved with the introduction of
shad, but bream fishing has been all
but eliminated. Now, Carters
Reservoir has a fish population like
most other reservoirs in North
Georgia.
"This situation is impossible to
reverse," says Mike Gennings,
Chief of Fisheries for the Wildlife
Resources Division. "Once a
species has become established in a
river or large reservoir, there is no
way to eliminate it from the
population."
Another good example is found
in the Altamaha River. Several
years ago flathead catfish, which are
not native to the river, were
illegally introduced. This
population has increased
dramatically over time. Today,
flathead catfish have almost
eliminated the bullhead catfish
population, while populations of
redbreast sunfish and certain species
of suckers have been severely
impaired. Redbreast sunfish .were
once the most important game fish
in the Altamaha River. Now, this
population has become food for the
flathead population, allowing the
catfish to thrive, but at the expense
of native populations.
Please see FISH, page 9A
