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Lanier: Level: Water level 8.2 feet below 1071. Temp: 58-61 degrees. Clarity: Water color is varied based on turnover. Some is clean, some is dirty. It’s all over the place. Bass: Guide Jimbo Mathley with Jimbo’s Lake Lanier Spotted Bass Guide Service reports, “While the outside elements are not always favorable, December and throughout the…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has entered into partnership agreements with two Lake Lanier area counties that should improve maintenance and operation at several key parks on the lake. Tim Rainey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lake Lanier Project Manager, and Dawson County’s Director of Parks and Recreation, Matt Payne, recently co-signed a…
“I’m not finding anything, but I think I hit him, right?” I looked to my friend for reassurance. “It sure looked like he was hit to me, but I couldn’t see him well when you shot,” my friend, Diz, responded. We were both feeling sick as we searched unproductively for blood. It was prime time…
Allatoona: Level: 11.4 below 840. Temp: 59-68 degrees. Clarity: Stained to murky in some areas due to the turnover. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “Fishing continues to be amazing with 25 fish a day very common. Tournament weights are averaging around 12 to 14 pounds. The deep jig bite continues to produce good bass,…
When the state purchased 10,015 acres of Oaky Woods WMA back in 2010 for $28.5 million taxpayer dollars, a big victory had been achieved for middle Georgia sportsmen and wildlife—including the central Georgia bear population. However, a crisis is lurking over the horizon as the same landowners, Southern Timber Consultants LLC in Perry, who sold…
I’ve lived in Bartow County my whole life and started hunting when I was 11 years old. My dad introduced me to the outdoors, and it’s been a lifestyle ever since. Over the years this lifestyle has taken me all over the country, as well as Canada and Mexico, chasing whitetail, bear, mule deer and…
The bite inland has been good but saltwater after the wind started blowing this weekend has been rough. Rivers are low, and fish are biting. Altamaha/Ocmulgee Rivers: Harry and James Beverley fished the lower Altamaha River this week for just a half-day trip before the rain ran them off. They caught 17 bass (12 keepers).…
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” James 1:2-3 If you have ever spent a lot of time hunting whitetail deer in Georgia, then you have definitely faced trials. If you have spent time chasing one particular mature…
By Cliff Odum We first got this buck on camera three years ago when he was a very nice 9-pointer. He had a clean rack with a non-matching G4 on his left side. I had harvested a 10-point opening weekend of the 2023 season and had committed to my brother and father that I would…
It’s once again time to sign up for the Georgia Trappers Association Youth Trapping State Championship Field Trials. The weekend format is simple. Kids and parents pair up with experienced trappers and spend two days on big chunks of private properties while kids get their feet wet in the art of trapping. Trap lines are…
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