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Fishing
To find some of the best wintertime striper fishing on Lake Weiss, George Eubanks depends on the birds. George, who lives just outside of Leesburg, Ala., is a third-generation cotton farmer and works more than 600 acres of cotton fields near Lake Weiss. In the late fall, when the cotton has been harvested, he has…
STREAMLIGHT® ADDS CAMOUFLAGE MODEL OF ITS ENDURO™ LED HEADLAMP EAGLEVILLE, PA. – April 11, 2006 – Streamlight® has introduced a camouflage version of its Enduro™ LED headlamp model. Previously available exclusively with a black casing, the new camouflage Enduro headlamp delivers the performance, runtime and hands-free convenience hunters, shooters and other outdoor enthusiasts look for…
Do you like to hunt? Odds are, if you’re reading this right now then you are probably a loyal GON reader. So, the answer to that question is most likely a “yes.” Do you like to fish? Same answer as the first? That’s what I thought. Now, have you ever done both at the same…
Wood-duck hens are early nesters, usually selecting a site and getting down to business in early February, so you don’t have a lot of time remaining if you want to help them along this year with nesting boxes. Boxes that have already been installed need annual maintenance, which can be as simple as wading out…
Have you heard that new song? It starts out kind of slow… the beat like water gently lapping the front of a jon boat, the melody set to the gentle hum of a trolling motor. But the chorus? Definitely more upbeat with the swish of rods cutting through the air on hook-sets, the grunts of…
The quick, frenzied crack and clatter of antler against antler was unmistakable. My first thought, someone had slipped onto our Henry County lease, that a trespasser was rattling. It was the third week of October, about 10:30 on a Wednesday morning eight years ago. A cool, steady breeze had tempted me out of a treestand…
The food-plot craze is well entrenched among Georgia deer hunters. The idea of improving the nutrition available to your land’s wildlife, while also dramatically improving your chances of putting venison on the ground, has driven more and more hunters to take the food-plot plunge. Farmers we are not, but you wouldn’t know that by the…
Plant it, and they will come. Just make sure you don’t hunt it too much. If you do, or if you make some mistakes in how you hunt it, they may only come at night. Or they might stop coming at all. Deer and food plots… the idea of turning dirt and sowing seed for…
I couldn’t have been any older than six when I caught my first fish, but that memory is still very clear in my mind. I was sitting in a jonboat in the middle of my grandparents’ pond in northwest Arkansas with my dad, my Uncle “Foo,” and my cousin, Greg, and had my little Zebco…
Few people have the reputation for their ability to catch fish that William Sasser has for catching crappie on Clarks Hill. Year round, William can catch fish. You may have seen him recently on the UPN fishing show, “Fishing with Ralph Barbee.” The trip took place on Valentines Day, when William says the fishing hadn’t…
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