Scrapbook – July 2024

Mark Halstead, a GON subscriber from Perry, caught his PB with a rod and reel while fishing the Ocmulgee River on May 19. The 48.62-lb. flathead hit a live bream. Mark released the big cat. The river record stands at 59-lbs., 2-ozs.

Steve Cobb, of Carrollton, used his flintlock muzzleloader to kill this Carroll County 10-pointer last Nov. 26.

Caysen Harvey, 19, of Wheeler County, with a bass he caught while fishing a private pond in Laurens County.

A dog hunt last year in Camden County yielded this 9-point buck for Wyatt Hutcheson, of Nahunta, on Nov. 11.

Roberta’s Trevor Moncrief was hunting in Crawford County when he killed this 10-pointer on Nov. 11.

Amy Atkinson, of Montrose, with her Laurens County 8-pointer killed on Nov. 17.

A quick hunt after work paid off for Abraham Loggins with this Banks County buck.

GON subscriber Kim Arnsdorff, of Clyo, caught this 25-lb. striped bass at Lake Allatoona on May 14.

Hudson Hanna took his mama Deanne Hanna on her first turkey hunt in Seminole County the last afternoon of the season, and Deanne got a gobbler!

The decoy got a flogging from this gobbler and a jake before Chris Bignon pulled the trigger. Chris, of Cumming, was hunting at Dawson Forest WMA.

Beautiful mountain bass! Rachel Harrison, of Calhoun, caught this 6-lb., 9-oz. largemouth at Lake Blue Ridge.

GON subscriber Dave Cirincione, of Clermont, used a very special call on this Jackson County gobbler. “Billy Buice is the oldest call maker in Georgia to have made trumpet callers,” Dave said. “I was able last year to purchase (from another collector) his very first all Ivory trumpet caller, made in 2001. I promised Billy I would hunt it… the call didn’t disappoint.” The bird weighed 22 pounds, had an 11-inch beard and 1 1/4-inch spurs.

Chloee Dupree, 21, downed this buck Nov. 8 while hunting in Dooly County.

This wild hog was killed in Camden County last fall by Richard Miller and Austin Goober.

The Pike County bucks were chasing Nov. 12 when Steve Edwards, of Locust Grove, shot this 10-pointer.