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The first time I ever heard a turkey gobble from the back deck of my house was a cold, winter morning. The bird wasn’t on my property, but he was easy to hear, and I began to dream of the day I might kill a bird on my own property. The problem was, or so…
If you’re planning on fishing in south Georgia this month, Banks Lake might just be your best bet to get on a good bite, and for good reason. Originally, this slot in the April issue of GON was slated for a south Georgia river story, until several inches of rain pushed nearly every moving body…
It’s too easy to get caught up in it all. Oh, I’ve been there; was snared for a couple of years. A jury of my peers would unanimously have found me guilty: Laboring While Fishing. It’s easy to lay it at the fins of that old largemouth, the species that shook fishing’s foundation and built…
Mr. Hoyt could see the strained look on my face. “If you wanna shoot a jake, now’s your chance,” he whispered through his facemask. “Yes, I do,” I whispered. “I mean… no… I mean… maybe…” I didn’t know what to do. They were coming to the decoy on a dead run across the field. Five…
It wasn’t a day with perfect turkey hunting conditions, but it was turkey season, and that’s really all that mattered. It was overcast and a little muggy, but I had just one day to hunt Georgia before hitting the road for Texas, then South Dakota. It was Donna’s birthday, and she had reminded me the…
Thirty-five years ago, the Chattahoochee River—along its course from the Medlock Bridge access site to the McGinnis Ferry Road Bridge in John’s Creek—is where I was introduced to Georgia trout fishing. With fly- and spin-fishing tackle, my buddies and I float-fished the riverway often and caught dozens of trout trip after trip through the northern…
Growing up in a family of one sister and four mischievous boys, I did not stand much of a chance of not becoming somewhat of a tomboy. We lived in the country near Ichawaynochaway Creek in Terrell County, so hunting and fishing were basically at our back door. As a young girl, I became quite…
After three seasons (2022-2024) of the new Georgia turkey hunting regulation changes, which were enacted because of a trending statewide turkey population decline, the state wildlife biologists are working hard to compile data in hopes of finding a positive trend. One encouraging piece of data revealed that the poults per hen number went up from…
Catch big Carters Lake spotted bass that are eating spawning shad early in the morning, and then target the spots on spawning banks after the sun gets up. That simple plan will offer you some fast action and possibly a personal best spotted bass if you make a trip to Carters in April. Carters Lake…