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Hunting
The ladder stand was lashed onto a pine in a new hot spot as the 2006 whitetail season wound down, and the excited hunter had only a few last-minute items on his to-do list before easing out of the area. He climbed to the top platform with an adjustable saw, intent on pruning away a…
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody’s around, does it make a noise? It probably did for one Irwin County 8- pointer, that was pinned under a pine tree that likely fell during a strong thunderstorm. “That kind of blew my mind,” said Bucky Tyler of Ocilla. Bucky found the deer at the…
The start of deer season is a great time for bass fishermen. Many people who have been on the water are now in the woods, making the lakes less crowded and giving you first shot at the fish. With the water and air finally cooling down, the fish feed better, and fishing is much more…
The never-ending heat wave was back. With temperatures tickling triple digits and not a cloud in the sky, eight hours on the deck of a boat had Clarks Hill feeling a little like Clarks H-E- you-know-where. However, two key variables turned less-than-ideal fishing conditions into a pretty good day on Georgia’s largest lake. First, a…
Ahhh, springtime in Georgia… is there a more glorious (or fickle) thing on earth? Temperatures had been in the upper 70s and early 80s for two weeks, but when I had arranged to meet Mark Denney, of Bonaire, at Lake Sinclair, it had been cold and windy for three straight days. It had been just…
The pair of coyotes pursuing the deer were so focused on catching the white-rumped fawn running in front of them that that they did not notice the dog closing in rapidly from behind. The exhausted fawn was blowing hard and beginning to flag, falling farther behind the doe that bound ahead of her. The lead…
Deer season is under way, and some incredible bucks have showed up in GON’s Truck-Buck contest. One buck that didn’t make the Truck-Buck coverage was a deer killed by Garrett Jones of Albany. He arrowed a 145-inch buck opening morning. “I forgot to renew my subscription,” Garrett said. Garrett’s buck, pictured to the right, has…
With cooler nights and dropping temperatures on the state’s reservoirs, the crappie fishing is getting ready to pick up from the doldrums of summer, when it’s hard to catch these tasty fish, unless you’re willing to stay out all night. Expert anglers around the state are wiping the dust off of their ultra-light gear,…
For most folks with Georgia’s Wildlife Resources Division (WRD), wild hogs are nothing more than a nuisance. They destroy food plots, roads and forest land while competing with game species like deer and turkey. For many hunters, there’s nothing else they’d rather do than hunt a wild hog. Many claim they like the fear factor…
How did one WMA manage to be open the entire hunting season last year and have hardly any hunters? The answer: Nobody knew about it! Townsend WMA officially opened last year during the muzzleloading season, almost two months after the hunting regs were published. So the majority of hunters in Georgia didn’t even know the…
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