Sites range in size from five to seven acres. If you live outside Clayton and Henry counties you can show up on Friday afternoons and hunt any available site. 30236.Ībout 70 hunters will be drawn for each hunt, but some hunts do not fill with hunters. Mail your application to 1693 Freeman Rd., Jonesboro, Ga. Applications can be found at the three CCWA reservoirs - Shamrock, Blalock and J.W. The deadline to apply for the hunts is August 1, and you must be a Clayton or Henry County resident to apply. Several Pope and Young bucks have been taken from the property. “We open the property to hunters now to maintain the herd.” “We have the herd down pretty good,” said Jep. Those start dates have been set: September 9, 16, 23 and November 4, 11 and 18. Now you can go a whole weekend and only a couple of deer get killed.”Īs a result of the lower deer numbers, the CCWA will host only six bowhunts for the 2005 season. “The number of deer used to be incredible. “It’s absolutely down,” said Mike Meason of McDonough. Originally it was said we probably wouldn’t be able to reduce the herd with archery only.”Īlthough there’s been no WRD survey that says the population has dropped, CCWA employees say they now see far fewer deer, and bowhunters also say the population is down. “We’re probably down to about 40 deer per square mile. “We put the number of people out there that we did, and we were able to do it (drop the population),” said Jep. A minor drop to 12 hunts took place in 2004, and the number of available hunting sites dropped from 138 to about 70 because of the construction of a new wetland. In 2002 CCWA began hunts on Friday afternoons, and 14 hunts took place. In 2001 hunters from outside the two south Atlanta counties could hunt if the lotteries for the hunts weren’t filled. Only 126 deer were taken that first year, so a more aggressive bow schedule was set from 1997-2001 - 13 hunts per year. Tal has killed three P&Y bucks, two of which came from the CCWA. Gardening enthusiasts will find themselves at home among the beautiful flowering plants, shrubs and garden flats at local nurseries such as Drenth Growers and Gardner's Limited.Tal Roberts, of Jonesboro, arrowed this Pope & Young buck from the CCWA in 2003. Golfers will enjoy a challenging round of golf at Lugene Links, a beautiful 9-hole public golf course with a sports bar, The Flying Elbow. Park Forest South Aviation Group offers introductory flights on their Schweizer 2-33A sailplanes in addition to lessons, while Atlantis Soaring Society flies higher performance sailplanes. Meason shows us how he catches big largemouth at the Newton County water-supply reservoir. Lake Village Airport is also the base for two glider clubs. West Points Hottest Bass Tournament Team Marks A March Map. Lake Village is home to a privately owned, public use airport which provides aircraft storage, as well as aircraft maintenance and repair. Visitors are allowed to gather berries, mushrooms and nuts when in season. LaSalle's habitat provides excellent opportunities for watching migrating waterfowl. ![]() Hunters will appreciate the large amount of wildlife, such as deer, turkey, ducks, geese, rabbits, quail, pheasant and squirrels. Visitors can enjoy fishing for bluegill, crappie, bass and walleye. LaSalle Fish and Wildlife Area consists of more than 3,700 acres of hardwood forests, fields, marshes, brush and open water. Once part of the vast Grand Kankakee Marsh - a hunter's paradise sought out by trappers, hunters and English nobility - this land is now rich in farmland and wildlife areas. Settled near the banks of now vanished Beaver Lake, which was drained in the mid-1800s to provide farmland, the settlement was given its name by local farmers who came to trade by "going up the lake to the village." Lake Village, in northern Newton County, is rich in history.
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