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For most hunters, finding a good shed antler is a pleasant side note to a post-season scouting trip or a spring morning spent in the turkey woods. For David Brannen, shed hunting is an activity in itself. He refers to it as a passion, and it incites in him the same level of enthusiasm as…
Ken Greene of Lumpkin knows a lot about cooking chicken, being the owner of three Zaxby’s restaurants, but he also knows just as much about bass fishing. Since GON is a hunting and fishing publication, we’re going to stick to the bass-fishing topics today. Living just minutes away from Florence Marina on the north end…
“Look at that,” said Joffer, motioning toward the screen of his graph. “That’s what I like to see — it looks like spaghetti.” His Lowrance color graph showed a jumble of string-like arches just off the bottom in 38 feet of water. “There,” he said, “That’s my spoon,” he said, indicating a descending blip on…
We were walking a waist-high field of cover frozen hard by the winter’s first real cold front behind an energetic French continental pointer. Baylee, a Braque Du Bourbonnais the other guides jokingly called a French poodle, was doing his job, methodically working one section of the tall grass and briars with his nose, seeking out…
February is a great month to catch crappie on Lake Oconee, according to crappie specialists, and father-and-son duo, Robert and Raymond Huff. Robert raised his kids on crappie fishing, and it apparently stuck real hard to his 31-year-old son, Raymond. “Crappie fishing was our vacations growing up,” said Raymond. “We’d camp out on the banks…
The General assembly convened at the Capitol Jan. 14 with the governor’s “State of the State” address and the presentation of his proposed budget for FY 2009. Since then a recess and budget meetings have kept legislators tied up in Atlanta, but there was one bill affecting sportsmen that moved forward. “The Guns in Cars…
On Christmas day evening, Tyler Dodson, 15, of Carrollton was fishing for catfish in a 23-acre lake behind his family’s house. For bait he had mixed chili with jalapenos, sloppy-joe mix, red kidney beans and Primo catfish bait. He poured the concoction into a piece of pantyhose laced with a 5/0 hook. The bait was…
Paradise PFA: Level: Near full pool in some of the smaller lakes. Lakes Patrick and Bobben are 2 feet below full pool. Temp: 56-58 degrees. Clarity: Lakes lightly stained; 36-inch visibility on Lake Patrick. Bass: Fair. Anglers reported some bass being caught in lakes Patrick, Bobben and Russell. Spinnerbaits and Rat-L-Traps fished in deeper water…
West Point: Level: Down 5.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 48-50 degrees. Clarity: Clear on the main lake; light stain in the major creeks and up the Chattahoochee River. Largemouths: Fair, said guide Paul Parsons. “Jigging-spoon fishing will probably be the best method to catch bass,” said Paul. “Cold weather coming in will put bass…
Weiss: Level: Down 3.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 45-48 degrees. Clarity: The main lake is clear, the creeks and the Coosa are stained. Bass: Slow. Weiss fishing guide Mark Collins said the bass have moved out to deeper water on the old river channels and main-lake points. Carolina rigs, jigging spoons, drop-shot rigs and…
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