Advertisement
Hunting
Like many other hunters across this great state, I was not fortunate enough to own any private acreage or belong to any exclusive hunting clubs last year. Whenever a species came in to season, I rushed to various WMAs across the state only to find that nearly 300 other people had the same idea on…
Many years ago, while making preparations for a deer-hunting trip in central Georgia, I scouted some hunting land in Butts County, north of Macon. I picked a place for my brother-in-law, Buddy Hynson, near an old rock wall adjacent to a deer trail. About 300 yards away, I found myself a spot in a gully…
If you could design a lake for bass fishing, you’d probably come up with something similar to Lake Blackshear. Shallow flats covered with wood, docks with posts and brushpiles under them, and creeks filled with lily pads and cypress trees are everywhere. All over the lake, bassy-looking cover makes you want to make casts to…
“The bridge is right here. It’s a fabulous place to fish; you need not know anything else about striper fishing. You don’t even have to crank your big motor,” said Tim Barrett moments after backing the boat in at the Port Wentworth ramp on the Savannah River. I had to take his word for…
Silas drained the last of the coffee from his cup and pushed his chair away from the restaurant table. “That is one beast of a storm,” he said across the table to Zack, Cody and Jenna. Raindrops pelted like hail against the diner’s plate-glass window, and flashes of lightning periodically lit up the room with…
Take a trip to many of Georgia’s lakes, and you can almost hear the familiar gurgle of bathwater draining from a tub. The broadening rings of shoreline around Lanier, Allatoona and others are tell-tale signs that the state is in its worst drought in a century. “North Georgia is in an exceptional drought, one that…
Rabbit season starts Saturday, Nov. 17. Do you have a place to turn out beagles and hunt? There’s a common gripe in the rabbit-hunting community that revolves around the difficulty in having a place to run dogs during deer season. Yes, it’s very true that access to private tracts full of briars and bunnies is…
The 2007 Georgia gun season for deer is under way! GON heard about several good bucks that were taken over the weekend, despite complaints of hot, dry weather. The best buck we heard about was one from Rockdale County. The buck had been photographed prior to bow season and e-mailed all over the state. Thomas…
National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Senior Wildlife Biologist Dowd Bruton of Traphill, N.C., testified before members of the U.S. House Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27 about the need for active forest management on national forests. Dowd, whose NWTF wildlife biologist duties cover Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky and West Virginia, testified about…
It was about 5:45 p.m., and Matt Fox was loading some things in the car, getting ready to head to the ball fields with the kids when he heard his wife yell that there was a deer in the backyard. That might not be an unusual circumstance for many of us these days, but Matt…
Become a GON subscriber and enjoy full access to ALL of our content.
New monthly payment option available!
Advertisement