Program Overview 

In 2010 Southern Sportsman Aquatics & Land Management started our Lunker Fish and Bruiser Buck Clubs.  A commemorative plaque is presented to our clients who experience an exceptional fish being caught from their waterbodies or a whitetail deer harvested from their land that we manage on a regular basis.  The landowner need not be the successful angler or hunter, but we do need a quality photo, name of angler or hunter, date and time caught or harvested, total length, girth and weight of the fish or antler measurements of the deer.  The categories for fish are bluegill, redear sunfish, black crappie, channel or blue catfish and largemouth bass.  The size categories are as follows: largemouth bass > 25” or 10 lbs, channel or blue catfish > 33” or 20 lbs, bluegill > 10” or 0.75 lbs, redear sunfish > 11” or 1.0 lbs, warmouth > 10” or 0.75 lbs  and black crappie > 14” or 2.0 lbs.  Whitetail deer qualify if the antlers scores > 140 inches.  Plaques will be presented to qualifying land owners during quarterly site visits.  We hope this gets you fired up as much as it does us, so make sure you let us know when an exceptional fish or deer is caught or harvested on your property that we manage.

2010 Lunker Fish

Award Winners 

We would like to congratulate and welcome our  first landowners to our Lunker Club.  In January 2011 I delivered the commemorative plaque to Mr. Ken Hall and Ken Hall Jr. owners of Hall Farms near Sylvester, Georgia.  A family friend of the Halls, Mr. Darin Smith, caught and released the 12 pound 14 once largemouth bass in the spring of 2010 from one of the three lakes we manage on Hall Farms.  The Halls were one of our first clients that came to us looking for guidance with lake management in the fall of 2007 and took a chance on a brand new company few people knew little about.  They have made vast improvements to their lakes and have become conscious of how intense agricultural practices can co-exist with quality fishing lakes.  I wouldn’t be surprised their next species for a Lunker Club Award is a redear sunfish or bluegill from one of their other lakes.

Mr. Ken Hall (left) and Ken Hall Jr. of Hall Farms are the first recipients of the Southern Sportsman Aquatics & Land Management Lunker Club Award!

The Lunker Fish and Bruiser Buck Clubs and award plaques were designed by Southern Sportsman Aquatics & Land Management to acknowledge landowners who own properties managed by us that experience exceptional fish and/or deer harvests.  It has been greatly embraced by clients and become a competition between land owners for bragging rights within the Southern Sportsman Aquatics & Land Management community.