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Fishing
For most of us land-locked Georgians who spend our time fishing lakes and rivers, a 5-pounder is a BIG fish. Well, what if there were a place where 5-pounders, and up, are commonplace, and a fish under 20 inches is too little to keep? There is such a place, and though a pretty well-kept secret,…
When the blueback herring took off in Lake Lanier and created a midday, heat-of-the-summer topwater bite for magnum spotted bass, I imagine there was a young angler all by himself, not another boat or a single jetski in sight, grinning like a possum eating persimmons. On the south end of Lanier, they are calling up…
Editor’s Note: The following article was written in 2006, a time when state agencies and biologists were hesitant — at best — to say coyotes were impacting deer and other wildlife in Georgia. Although scientific research has not been completed on the subject, it seems clear that coyotes on certain tracts of land in Georgia…
At 6:20 a.m. Sean Capes and I were on a long point halfway back in Woods Creek on Lake Chatuge throwing topwater. Sean was giving a Sammy 100 a workout, and I was walking the dog with a Super Spook. When the bait was halfway back to the boat, the water erupted around Sean’s Sammy…
Kim Carver and Matt Ferman said changing weather conditions and a spinnerbait were key ingredients in their win at Berry’s Lake Oconee tournament Saturday, May 13. “We struggled all morning,” said Kim. “We mostly caught our fish off a Zoom lizard. We’d catch one on a dock, then one on a seawall, we probably only…
Mike saw the coyote while bowhunting last September between some planted pines and a hayfield. The coyote, slipping along the edge of the field, never came into bow range. The next day, Mike was back in the stand, but he had traded his bow for his .223 and a fawn-bleat call. Twenty minutes later he…
We’ve all been there. You find a quiet little isolated pond that you know holds the world-record bluegill, it’s spring and you can see the light color of the bed way back in the corner of the lake, and there is absolutely no way to get there. From your vantage point the vegetation is…
As the boat glided to a stop, Larry Kennedy started setting rods in the rod holders near the bow. “You can put those four in the holders on the stern,” he said as he pointed to lightweight spinning rods near the rear seat. “We’ll start out trolling first and see if we can pick up…
The older gentleman with the walking stick leaned his foot on the guard rail of the bridge over Allen Creek on Lake Russell and yelled down to Troy Morrow, who was rigging a rod on the deck of his boat. The man, who was taking his morning walk, saw Troy and asked, “You caught anything…
The WRD is completing hunter-survey data from Georgia’s 2005-06 deer season, and the information on hunter numbers is not good. Deer-hunter numbers continued to decline at an alarming rate. According to the survey, the number of deer hunters in Georgia last season, including licensed resident, honorary license holder, and non-resident hunters, was 238,000, a decline…
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