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Fishing
Gary Brannon, of Columbus, broke the lake record at Goat Rock Reservoir with a monster 14-lb., 3-oz. largemouth. On March 13, Gary and Johnny Reed, also from Columbus, fished Goat Rock, located south of Bartlett’s Ferry on the Chattahoochee River, for 1 1/2 hours and caught 10 fish over 4 pounds, all in one spot!…
Clarks Hill WMA has one of the oldest and best established turkey populations in Georgia. There is a good number of birds on the area and even more hunters. The estimated hunter success last year on the WMA and surrounding area was estimated at a respectable 20-30% Since December 1988, the University of Georgia has…
A few weeks ago, lure manufacturer and avid angler Jimmy Edge landed a huge 13-lb., 2-oz. largemouth bass at Lake Sinclair. It was the biggest bass Jimmy had ever caught, but he didn’t think it was a lake record. That’s because most Sinclair fishermen knew that a man had caught a monster fish from the…
As far as GON knows, this is the only photo there has ever been of the lake record largemouth for Lake Seminole. The fortunate angler was Charles Tyson, and his record-setting bucketmouth weighed 16-lbs., 4-ozs. and was caught May 23, 1961. If anyone knows the Tyson family or has access to additional photos, we’d like…
Beginning March 20, any crappie you catch from the Alabama side of Lake Weiss must measure 10 inches long from nose to tail or it has to go back in the lake. Alabama is imposing the new minimum size limit in an effort to increase the size of Weiss crappie. According to Alabama Fisheries Biologist…
Georgia’s first goose season since 1968 is now in the books. From the 1,150 permits that were awarded hunters, they killed 263 geese for a hunter-success rate of 22.9%. The best success was found in the Monroe County hunt unit, with 45% of hunters killing a goose. The poorest hunting took place in Hall County…
Last Wednesday I was sitting at my desk going over a project GON has been working on for the past few weeks. We’re trying to compile a list of lake-record fish in Georgia for an upcoming issue. Then the phone rang and an excited fishing guide Mike Mobley said one of his clients, Danny Alsobrook, had…
It’s just after eight of the a.m. and a typical gray December morning. Well maybe just a little more gray than usual. A silent, shooting mist shrouds the Oconee River as the battered old Ouchita flatbottom glides downstream without a whisper. The river gurgles and laps around the two of us, all alone on the…
Editor’s Note: Below is a story from 30 years ago that will appear in the Days GON By section of the February 2020 issue of GON. We miss our dear friend Bill Hilsman and the great deer contest he used to host. The crowd of deer hunters gathered around the Hilsman’s Deer Cooler booth at…
Rumors of the buck had preceded it, but when Michael Long and his brother finally dragged the buck straight out of the Lake Burton WMA woods of Rabun County and up to the checking station, the Game Management personnel working the hunt still couldn’t believe it. The buck’s rack didn’t look like it belonged to…
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