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Hunting
Gary King, of Oakfield, has killed some nice bucks during his hunting career. And because he lives on the 4,600-acre tract of Worth County land he hunts, he understands deer better than most. But when Gary climbed into his stand on a hot, humid afternoon in September, he couldn’t have imagined his hunt would produce…
Sixteen-year-old skeet-shooter Vincent Hancock of Eatonton outshot the world in the recent 2005 ISSF World Clay Target Championship in Lonato, Italy to take the Men’s Skeet World Championship. Vincent, a member of the Lake Oconee Shotgun Team, used his Beretta DT10 and a near-perfect swing to break 148 of a possible 150 targets and become…
A few years ago, state wildlife biologists recognized a very serious problem on Red Top Mountain State Park in Bartow County: the deer population had reached critcal mass. With booming growth in metro Atlanta, there is a sharp line between developed areas and park boundaries, meaning Red Top became a sanctuary for deer and other…
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All of us have experienced those rare, sweet moments when something good happens to people we know. You know the feeling, that warm inner glow you get, a swelling of pride that something that ought to have happened, some special reward or recognition, has been bestowed on one of the good guys. It happened recently.…
The smash of a healthy largemouth bass attacking a topwater bait is one of those things that avid anglers don’t soon forget. Nothing is more likely to get a serious bass fisherman’s adrenaline flowing than an explosive topwater strike from a big fish on a quiet summer morning. Bass are predators by nature, and they…
The proposal to breach portions of the Eagle Phenix and City Mills dams along the Chattahoochee River in downtown Columbus was recently approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers division office in Atlanta. The project, which now sits in a planning and specs stage, has some fishermen upset. “I’m wondering what impact it’s going…
No sound is music to the striper fisherman’s ears like an Ambassadeur 6000’s baitclicker sounding off. Your heart jumps in your throat and anticipation mounts as the first few slow “click, click, click” signals the fun is about to begin. When the sound changes to a loud, raucous “clikikikikikikikikikikikik” it is the ringside bell signaling…
Oh boy… it’s July. I’m going to make a prediction about those of you who are going to fish public waters this month: Ninety percent of your casts will be with either a deep-diving crankbait or a Carolina rig. Have fun. Terry Lee of Griffin said he’s fishing shallow grass all day — early with…
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