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It looks like Georgia gun owners are safe from schemes to protect us from ourselves for another year. Halfway into the legislative session, no gun-control bills had been introduced in our state legislature, and none are expected. If any are introduced, they will most likely be stopped in committee. Some have said gun-control schemes are…
It’s that time again: cleaning out, changing and rearranging the innards of my 300-lb. tackle box. Should be all finished about this time next year. Oh, there’ll be breaks here and there to actually take the thing fishing, but the job never completely gets done. It’s all these interruptions, you see, reminiscing over places and…
Features: West Point’s Hottest Bass Tournament Team Marks A March Map Reid Hurston and Tim Morris won both of West Point’s team trails last summer, and they’re off to another good start this year. Gobbling Dynamics The ups and downs of hunting gobbling turkeys. Lake Seminole Hard-Bottom Spawning Bass Knowing where to find spawning bass…
In a few weeks, you’ll be chasing a big gobbler around the woods, filling a cooler with slab crappie or scouting your property in anticipation of next deer season. While you go through the routines of your hunting and fishing interests, there are things going on at the state capitol that can seriously impact sportsmen.…
February 13: Valleys, Seminole Prior to the latest Valley tournament, word around Lake Seminole was that fishing was tough. However, at Valley’s February 13 event, a few fish decided to bite. Greg Gaston of Thomasville and Rob Newell put five keepers in the boat that weighed 20.40 pounds. They collected $3,000 for the finish. Terry…
March can be one of the best months to catch bass on Georgia lakes, and West Point is often the best bass lake in the state this month. West Point is full of quality largemouths as well as spotted bass, and they are all moving shallow to feed as they get ready to spawn in…
Mike Meason and I had been throwing spinnerbaits and jigs on Lake Varner for a few hours and hadn’t had a bite. “There’s no harder time to do an article for y’all than in February,” said Mike. “March is unbelievable out here, but February can be tough.” As is the case with so many GON…
Opening day of turkey season… what a glorious time in a hunter’s life. You wade through deer season, spend the next two months wing-shooting at wood ducks, chasing beagles through the short pines or lining up your .22 rifle on a flattened-out bushytail sunning himself on a sun-baked hickory branch. It almost seems like passing…
As the big bass boat glided silently through the dead stems of the lily pads that poked sporadically through the surface of the water, we could see the thick beds of hydrilla covering the bottom of the shallow lagoon. The water was only a couple of feet deep, and once in a while we’d see…
There is an annual January gathering in Sylvania that warms the heart, even if the temperatures have dropped and the weather has a sting. The quail fly better anyway when the weather has an edge, but no matter the climatic conditions, the hospitality is unsurpassed. Don Sheppard Jr., his brother, Stan, and his father, Don…
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