Tight Lines
Senior Member
Reading this thread kind of cements in my mind why some guys kill a lot of deer and others sit by the fire. There is a confluence of events in NGA that isn't in the control of the state. Unless the forests are managed for the game, and a whole bunch of other factors happen like food sources, then relocating the game is a short term death sentence. Whitetail, quail, and turkey all need a balance of habitat, food, water, and predator limitations to succeed. North Georgia forests are pretty, but unfortunately they don't have the habitat required for a lot of whitetail.
I grew up in Kansas, and I am passionate about fly fishing, even more so than hunting. But dang, no matter how we tried, getting those big bows and browns to live and spawn in our silty warm rivers just never worked. Now, we tried to get the state in increase the gradient, bring in a couple of million metric tons of limestone and rock, pump clean cold water out of the aquifer and put a canopy over the creeks to keep the temperatures from rising. All the while trying to get the farmers to keep their cattle out of our artificial stream. The state and the farmers said no.
So, I bought a fish tank instead and traveled to Colorado to fish for proper trout...and I killed pheasants, deer, and quail along those warm, silty streams...
I grew up in Kansas, and I am passionate about fly fishing, even more so than hunting. But dang, no matter how we tried, getting those big bows and browns to live and spawn in our silty warm rivers just never worked. Now, we tried to get the state in increase the gradient, bring in a couple of million metric tons of limestone and rock, pump clean cold water out of the aquifer and put a canopy over the creeks to keep the temperatures from rising. All the while trying to get the farmers to keep their cattle out of our artificial stream. The state and the farmers said no.
So, I bought a fish tank instead and traveled to Colorado to fish for proper trout...and I killed pheasants, deer, and quail along those warm, silty streams...
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