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Clarks Hill: Level: 2.3 feet below full. Temp: 59-60 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. David Smith said there’s no big secrets to fishing Clarks Hill in January. Just take a lead-head Fluke, start at the mouth of a ditch and start chunking. Expect bites in 15-25 feet of water, and yo-yo the bait back to…
Carters: Level: 1.7 feet above full pool. Temp: 48 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: “The bite has finally arrived,” said Buddy Callahan of Bart’s Bait & Tackle. “Everybody has been catching fish.” Buddy said 17 pounds finished out of the money at a recent Saturday pot tournament out of Doll Mountain. Buddy said good stringers of…
Chatuge: Level: 7.4 feet below full pool. Temp: 47-50 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Slow. And this time of year, you need to slow down to catch fish. Daniel Workman says he loves to fish crankbaits and spinnerbaits, but this time of year at Chatuge, he will likely have a worm tied on. “You have to…
Just after daylight on December 14, Leonard Hampton and I were stalking squirrels on his Oglethorpe County hunting lease. We were following a small drain through big hardwoods hoping to see or hear a squirrel — and it didn’t take long. We heard the scrape of squirrel claws on bark and saw two gray squirrels…
While some hunters still say they aren’t seeing the number of deer they’re accustomed to seeing, based on a variety of indicators it has been a boom year for big bucks in Georgia. For sheer numbers of 130- to 160-class bucks, this may be the very best year GON has ever heard about. We’ll begin to…
Most hunters picked for one of the Ossabaw Island quota deer hunts this season found the hunting tougher than normal, at least compared to the heyday for high hunter-success rates in the late 1990s. Several factors have changed the way hunters have to go about collecting venison and pork. For the first time in a…
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The results of the first deer hunt at Hard Labor Creek State Park are in, and these results are both stunning and depressing. The results are simple. In only two days of hunting, 207 hunters took 214 deer. As stunning as those results are, the story is actually even more incredible. The number of hunters was…
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