GA DNR’s New App for Licenses, Boat Ramps, Tides, and more!

I recently downloaded and installed the GA DNR Wildlife Resources Division’s new app, Outdoors GA, and I like where they are headed with this. One of its most useful features is the ability to keep a copy of your licenses on your phone. If your license printout is lost or otherwise disintegrates you’ll still be able to present your license as long as you have your phone. Since your license data is stored on your phone’s local memory it will even work when your cellular data network is unavailable. Equally as useful is the ability to purchase or renew licenses from within the app. Of course that part requires an available data network, so you probably want to take care of that before getting out in the sticks.

Also included are tide charts, water conditions , solar and lunar times, and wildlife feeding times specific to Georgia. There is also a map of DNR boatramps, but the map appears to be a work in progress. I found it strange that the boat ramps at Georgia’s State Parks (managed by another division of the GA DNR) are absent.

The app is free on both Google Play and the Apple Store and has no ads. Check it out here at the GA DNR Wildlife Resources Division’s website.

Scoutlook solunar/weather/fish app

putting this here to save the name for when i can update my phone. try the app out yourself and let’s see how it does.

one interesting feature is the projected feeding times. i think this can eliminate a lot of exhaustion in searching for fish when the bite’s off. usually the shittiest hottest part of the day too.

http://www.scoutlookweather.com/

How to Stop Reel Over-run or Backlash When Casting

Another good article addressing some issues with picking up a baitcasting reel. I’m determined to be able to work this damned thing without creating an epic mess of line. The article is sympathetic to that sentiment and is approachable even to those of us who decided to give a baitcasting reel a try because we saw someone at Bass Pro Shops do it a couple of weeks ago and it looked kinda cool.

Check it out here!