Two thousand

was a good year for fishing for Fayetteville's Thomas Elkins.

Elkins set

two International Game and Fish Association freshwater line class records

in less than a month. April 10, he caught a three-pound, 12-ounce striped

bass in Clarks Hill Lake, Ga. on a four-pound test line, filling the vacant

four-pound line class category.

May, 8, he

caught a 14-pound, 11-ounce striped bass in Allatoona Lake, Ga., on a

20-pound test line, filling the vacant 20-pound line class category.

There are still

nine vacant Georgia state line class records in the four-pound, 12-pound

and 20-pound line classes for largemouth bass, striped bass, white rock

bass, bluegill and channel catfish. A complete list of eligible record

species in each state is available free of charge.

For information,

contact Mike Myatt at the International Game Fish Association, 300 Gulf

Stream Way, Dania Beach, Fla. 33004. Call 954-927-2628, fax 954-924-4299

or e-mail to [email protected].

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