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Fishing
Catch bass on top early and late? Catch them all day on crankbaits and all night on spinnerbaits? That may not sound like summer fishing at Lake Allatoona, but it is. The late June and July bass fishing is very good at Allatoona if you can stand the crowds, but all Georgia lakes get crowded…
As a Thursday workday drew to a close, my thoughts shifted not to the ride home and dinner, but to my next scheduled meeting. Fortunately, this meeting would be with a co-worker and a friend of his, and the agenda would be redeye bass. The “Coosa” or redeye bass, as it is often referred to,…
Every angler knows that the success of a fishing trip can turn on a dime. Sometimes it’s a shift in the wind, a drop in temperature, a sudden rain or nothing that you can quite put your finger on. But when expert fisherman and Lake Eufaula guide Billy Darby called me the day before our…
When Heath Oglesby ripped open the envelope and began flipping through the photographs he had just developed at the local Walmart, his jaw dropped. “Dudley… Dudley! This ain’t good,” he said, drawing the attention of his hunting buddy William Dudley. Heath and William were 18 years old at the time, and Heath’s dad, Paul Oglesby,…
The blockwork is up for the 16- by 27-foot building, the roof’s going on soon, and with a little luck, a well will be drilled this summer. Hunters camping at Tuckahoe WMA this fall will be pleased to see a brand new bathhouse in the campground, complete with hot-water showers. This bathhouse was built by…
Long-awaited public access for fishing boats at Bear Creek Reservoir in Jackson County could soon become a reality. The Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority (UOBWA) is designing a boat ramp off Hwy 330 to allow public access for boats with electric motors to the 505-acre reservoir near Athens. Construction could be completed as early as…
Georgia resident O’Neill Williams has been entertaining outdoor enthusiasts for almost three decades. If there is a way to make a living doing what you love, then O’Neill has surely done that. O’Neill, now 63, became interested in hunting and fishing as a small child and today has more than 500 television episodes and 800…
Fish Like To Be Spoon Fed. That’s the company slogan and belief of a pair of entrepreneurial crappie anglers who have come up with an innovative, downsized way to catch crappie. Keith and Jessica Pace of Gainesville are the crappie anglers behind the internet company Crappie Micro Spoons and Jigs, which markets tiny spoons for…
Donnie Hinkle was bass fishing on West Point Lake in October of 2003 when he witnessed something he’d never seen before; a school of gar began surfacing all around him. Donnie said he could hear their beaks slapping on the water’s surface and knew he had to catch one. He threw cast after cast with…
“And I thought bass fishermen were secretive about their favorite fishing holes,” was what I thought as I swallowed back the bile working its way up my throat. For those prone to motion sickness, being blindfolded is not the best way to ride in the back of a vehicle careening up a gravel mountain road,…
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