Well, here’s your big chance! Time to blow the dust off our “weapons of mass destruction” and blow away a few turkeys. Legally. While we are still allowed to have guns in America … except if you live in President Obama’s former hunting grounds of …
Category: Tourism
Lake Lanier Association Supports Senate Bill 136
Our stalwart allies at the Lake Lanier Association, including Executive Director Joanna Cloud, have commended members of the Lake Lanier Legislative Caucus for drafting tougher boating laws that will save lives and make boating safer on lakes throughout the state. Senate Bill 136, which passed the Georgia …
GA State Parks Offer Special Deal for Tent Campers
Forget Five-Star hotels. State Parks in Georgia offer tent sites just north of Lake Lanier with bazillions of stars! Tent camping is inexpensive, restful and exhilarating. The new GeoCamp program makes sleeping outside almost as cheap as when cowboys made their homes where the buffaloes roamed and …
Shane Watson: Early Spring Striper & Crappie Fishing
Shane Watson Guide Service Report 3-10-13 Over the last week or so, the striper blow-ups have been amazing on live bait. We have caught many stripers on freelined bluebacks and on gizzard shad. Spro McSticks and bucktails are also working very well on stripers, spots, …
Go Catching on Lanier ~ Not Just Fishing
Some people catch fish. Others, in the same boat using the same bait, do not catch fish. Do you know why? Of course not. Neither do I. That’s why we never catch fish. Now, thanks to the friendly fisheries biologists at Georgia’s Department of Natural …
Boating Safety Law SB 136 Passes Unanimously
A proposed new law, Senate Bill 136 (also known as the “Kile Glover Boat Education Law” and “Jake and Griffin Prince BUI Law”), unanimously passed the Georgia State Senate on Friday, March 1, 2013. Senate Bill 136, if passed by the House, will: • reduce …
99% of Lanier’s Boat Ramps Open
As of today, March 5, 2013, 103 of Lake Lanier’s 104 boat ramps are open. Only one, the right lane at Bald Ridge Marina is closed — but the left lane at that spot is open. If having one boat ramp closed bums you out, …
Then the Rains Came to Lake Lanier
Seriously. Did you ever believe we’d see Lake Lanier this full so soon? Amazing. January 1, 2013’s level was 1058 — twelve feet below 1070, the full-pool level for winter on Lake Lanier. February 1st we hit 1063.34. Then, March 1st took us up to …
Jeffrey Hubbard Indicted in Kile Glover’s Death
Melissa Cummings, communications/outreach specialist with the Georgia DNR, Wildlife Resources Division, has confirmed that Jeffery Hubbard was indicted on February 28, 2013, by a Hall County Grand Jury for the death in July 2012 of Kile Glover on Lake Lanier. Kile Glover, 11, was killed in a jet …
Right to Hike’s Spring Golf Classic
Right to Hike, Inc. was founded after the violent death of Meredith Hope Emerson on the Appalachian Trail near Georgia’s Blood Mountain in January of 2008. The work done by Right to Hike (RTH) volunteers goes far beyond remembering a beloved friend, coworker and daughter. …