Georgia Fishing News

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - Career Sports & Entertainment announced today that Element 21 and its premier fishing product, Carrot Stix, a Scandium Alloy bio-fiber fishing rod signed a two-year deal and will become an official sponsor of Under Armour College Bass throughout the 2010 season.

LIZELLA, GEORGIA - Bob Looper and Rick Walters, both of Brooksville, Florida, caught a two-redfish limit that weighed 13.23 pounds to win the 2009 IFA Redfish Tour event at Englewood, Florida, on June 27. To win the one-day event, which launched out of Stump Pass Marina, Looper and Walters bested a field of other two-angler teams to win the event, adding 200 points to their IFA Florida West Coast Division point total.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. (June 26, 2009) - Angler Terry McConnell of Toccoa, Georgia had more than just a great day of fishing on Lake Richard B. Russell on April 3, 2009 - he managed to catch a fish that tied a Georgia state record! McConnell reeled in a 63 lbs., 49 ½ -inch striped bass using a blueback herring on a baitcast rod, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division. This catch ties the current striped bass state record, which was caught from the Oconee River in 1967.

LIZELLA, GEORGIA - Redfish anglers from the Texas Gulf Coast region and surrounding areas will converge on Corpus Christi, Texas, on June 6 for the second IFA Redfish Tour Texas Division event of 2009. The event, hosted by Marker 37 Marina, is the second of three regular-season tournaments for the Texas Division, one of six divisions of IFA Redfish Tour events running from the Carolinas to Texas.

SOCIAL CIRCLE, GEORGIA - This is no fish tale: A new Georgia Museum of Natural History Web site offers the most complete look at Georgia fishes, what they are and where they're found.

"There has never been anything this comprehensive," said Brett Albanese, a senior aquatic zoologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

LIZELLA, GEORGIA - Anglers from the Carolinas, East Coast and surrounding regions will converge on Surf City, North Carolina, on May 23 for the second IFA Redfish Tour Atlantic Division event of 2009. The event, hosted by Beach House Marina & Yacht Club, is the second of three regular-season tournaments for the Atlantic Division, one of six divisions of IFA Redfish Tour events running from the Carolinas to Texas.

LIZELLA, GEORGIA - Anglers from across the southeast and Gulf Coast region will converge on St. Augustine, Florida, on May 16 for the second IFA Redfish Tour Florida East Coast Division event of 2009. The event, hosted by Conch House Marina, is the second of three regular-season tournaments for the Florida East Coast Division, one of six divisions of IFA Redfish Tour events running from the Carolinas to Texas.

LIZELLA, GEORGIA - Mike Tindal of Dauphin Island, Alabama, and Artie Price Jr. of New Port Richey, Florida, caught a two-redfish limited that weighed 21.12 pounds to win the 2009 IFA Redfish Tour event at Bay St. Louis, Miss., on Saturday. To win the one-day event, which operated out of Bay Marina, Tindal and Price Jr. bested a field of other two-angler teams to win the event by .03 pounds, adding 200 points to their IFA Gulf Coast Division point total.

The Richmond Hill, Georgia, team of Kelley Clements, Tracy Shaw, Ellis Phillips, Michael Mosley, and Rusty Rogers, captured a 58.58 pound kingfish on day two of the South Florida event held at the Four Fish Marina inJensen Beach. Their second day smoker, coupled with the 38.87 scaled by the Mercury powered Fountain team on day one, gave the "On the Brink" a 97.45 two fish aggregate to capture the $40,000 cash prize as well as a boat load of Raymarine electronics. They also picked up an additional $10,000 cash prize in the local Francis Langford Memorial event.

LIZELLA, GEORGIA - Bruce Lindheim of Pensacola, Florida., teamed with first-time partner Fred Myers of Panama City, Florida, caught a two-redfish limit that weighed 17.60 pounds and won the 2009 IFA Redfish Tour event at Lafitte, Louisiana, on Saturday. To win the one-day event, which operated out of Lafitte C-Way Marina, Lindheim and Myers bested a field of other two-angler teams to win the event by more than one pound, taking the early points lead in the IFA Redfish Tour's Louisiana Division.