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May 2025 Issue
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Hunting
The woods were still dark when Ellie stepped out of the truck and pulled the old camo jacket tight around her shoulders. A chill hung in the early spring air, the kind that wrapped around your neck and settled in your boots. She’d worn that same jacket every season since she turned 16. It had…
Round 1 of the 2025 GON Coyote Cull is off and rolling as hunters and trappers step up to the plate to kill song dogs in an effort to save fawns and turkey poults. Listed below are all the entries of those who have found success and taken a photo with their May 2025 issue…
My name is Lora Akin, born and raised in Columbus, Ga. I don’t have any private land to turkey hunt, so I normally drive about 45 minutes to an hour just to hunt some public land. On April 17, 2025 around 7 p.m. that evening, I was blessed with a beautiful turkey. I was out…
For the next three months, GON is offering chances for readers to win some really cool prizes in our annual Coyote Cull contest. Flip back to page 16 to check out the details on how all that works. Let’s do a reality check on this. May, June and July aren’t the more relaxing months to…
When it comes to the status of wild turkeys in Georgia, we’re certainly not out of the woods yet. Reproduction remains very low compared to the glory days of chasing gobblers in Georgia in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Something changed, for sure, and hopefully answers and solutions will come soon. The good news…
Fishing
When Jackie Dyess, of Lyons, set out on a leisurely float trip with fiancé Scott Mulling and some friends on the Ohoopee River, she had no idea that it would soon be a trip for the record books… literally. “We all got down there around 9 or so and started floating and fishing. The plan…
Lake Worth has a new lake-record largemouth, and it’s one that’s going to be hard to top. The angler, Keaton Smith, 16, of Poulan, caught the bass on March 25 just below Blackshear’s Warwick Dam. “We were actually fishing for shoal bass when he caught the largemouth,” said his dad, Monty. Monty said they have…
For the second time in less than a month, a state-record spotted sunfish has been certified, this time resulting in a stand-alone, state-record fish. The record was previously shared by two anglers, but Josh Forsythe, of Homerville, is now the sole record holder. His fishing location all came down to a coin flip… “When I got…
Taylor Cronan, 10, of Pendergrass, is the new Lake Lanier record holder for the common carp. She caught a 22-lb., 0.2-oz. fish on April 26 and had it weighed on certified scales and verified by a WRD biologist. She was fishing from the bank in the Gainesville area with her dad, mom, sister and a…
Local angler Brandon Wright recently raised the Lake Blue Ridge spotted bass record bar by 4 ounces, with a 6-lb., 8-oz. magnum spot he caught on Monday, April 28. He was fishing with his regular fishing partner, Kenton Kimsey. “With the lake coming up and warmer water temperatures, the fish are moving up shallow to…
News
The 2025 Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast, presented by Kenzie’s Optics, will take place July 25-27 at the LakePoint Champions Center in Emerson, north of Atlanta off I-75 at Exit 283. Below are highlights of what to expect. More info will added between and now and the show at GON.com/outdoor-blast. Gun-An-Hour Giveaway: Few things in life are better…
With opportunities for visiting students on day field trips, overnight programs, summer camps and access for families during festivals and special events, the new Joe Tanner Discovery Center will be an often-used and well-loved location by thousands, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR). A ribbon-cutting ceremony for this new facility was held…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a record-breaking 126-day Gulf red snapper recreational season for 2025, the longest season since Florida assumed management of red snapper in the Gulf of America. The expanded season includes additional summer and fall fishing days from 2024, offering anglers more opportunities to fish over major holidays such as Memorial Day,…
Videos
Come along as GON Events Coordinator, Kimberly Lee, takes us through her trip to the 2025 NRA convention that was held in Atlanta on April 25, 2025. Kimberly Lee is GON’s Event Coordinator… among her many talents. Hence her nickname the “Force Of Nature.” Kimberly’s Force Of Nature blog appears regularly at GON.com and in GON magazine.
Over the last few years, the jig-and-minnow technique has taken the bass fishing world by storm. Coupled with the latest forward-facing sonar (FFS), and this is an incredibly effective technique on just about any body of water. Since the release of FFS, social media has been riddled with conflicting opinions from anglers who either think…
May is just about as good as it gets when it comes to river fishing in Georgia. This is the month when all the pieces finally come together, as we transition out of spring and into the warmer weather, but before the flat-out scorching-hot days that lie ahead. The Canoochee River has quickly moved up…
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Latest Issue
May 2025 Issue of GON Magazine
In this issue:
Turkey Fever: Sultans Of The Glade
Hike-In Cohutta Trout Fishing
Jig-Head Minnows And FFS
2025 Coyote Cull Contest
Truck-Buck Scoring Results
Canoochee River Redbreast And Bream
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