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Hunting
Deer season has about run out. It turned into a job — slapping 4 a.m. alarm clocks and lugging climbers around — didn’t it? Ready to get that predatory surge of adrenaline pumping through those hunting veins again? It’s time to hunt hogs. If you love to hunt and have never stalked hogs, you are…
Because of the persistent drought, fishermen across the state have been watching in frustration for months as the boat ramps they use to access their local reservoirs have dried up one by one. Lack of access has closed Carters Lake ramps to boats all together, and a handful of smaller reservoirs are inaccessible, as well.…
By this time of year, the lakes are getting cold, and bass are not feeding as well as they did earlier in the fall. Colder water means they are less active and more likely to be holding in deep- er water. However, a few warm winter days can turn the bass on, and you can…
The Altamaha River is at record lows, with rarely seen sandbars and rockpiles popping up along its length. There are two primary ways to navigate the river during such low water. The first is to poke around cautiously in small, preferably aluminum, boats and motors, and fish where you can. That is how I typically…
A buck was growing year-by-year, and the giant main- frame 8-pointer was well-known among some serious hunters and deer managers, who named the buck “Hooker.” If there ever was a polar opposite to the tale of the Cherokee County buck — taken with a bow, in a fragmented river habitat and never seen before by…
Clint jumped off the front porch and raced across the yard. He sprinted toward the trail through the pines with his heart choking his throat. “If anything has happened to that dog…” He had to block the thought from his mind. He was uncertain of exactly where the shot had come from after Mitzi had…
I was bowhunting in central Illinois when I received a phone call on Wednesday night, Oct. 17. A good friend and client of mine was calling to tell me that one of our mutual friends, Chad McCook of Woodstock, had harvested a huge deer with his bow in Cherokee County. He initially said the deer…
The morning was cold — not cold enough to ice the pond, but cold enough to make me wonder if I had time to pour another cup from the thermos. As usual, it took a chilly morning in the water to discover a new hole in my waders… an even more convincing argument for a…
“Year-round, there are fish in this hole,” said Clifford Swygert, who was keeping track of eight rod tips, his depthfinder and his GPS as we slow-trolled over a deep area far up Little River on the South Carolina side of Clarks Hill Lake. “There’s one bumping it,” he said, nodding toward a 12-foot rod off…
Lake Allatoona, north of Atlanta, has long been known as a tough lake to fish. The deep, clear water is relatively free of natural structure, and you had better know what you are doing and where the planted brush is or you are going to have a long day with limited activity. But for those…
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