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Fishing
Even in the dead of winter, Lake Lanier can provide some outstanding crappie fishing. In mid December last year, Lanier fishing guide Doug Youngblood of Buford and clients caught more than 100 crappie on a couple of trips before the Christmas deep-freeze set in. In mid January Doug caught 50 crappie off one dock. He…
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…
My first trip to Lake Jackson was in April of 2000. I was filming tournament pro Eric Perkins and GON editor Daryl Kirby for GON-TV. Right off the bat Eric caught a 4-lb. largemouth on a Bang-O-Lure. The bite never stopped. All day bass hit Flukes, spinnerbaits, worms, jigs, whatever hit the water. It was…
• Saturday, June 11: When light hit the ground, I felt strange. Sitting a foot off the ground in a roomy box stand with my .243 rifle propped in the corner, I was ready if opportunity knocked. The thought that the chance could arise where I’d need to look through my scope and squeeze one…
Thirty minutes after fly-down time, and we hadn’t heard a gobble. This is crazy, I thought. Thomas Holcombe, 14, of Royston and I were the very first public turkey hunters on the newly purchased River Creek WMA in Thomas County. I’d heard the place was filthy with turkeys, but at this point I wasn’t so…
As the summer heat begins to drive water temperatures well into the 80s, there will be a bass pattern developing on Clarks Hill that not too many bass anglers ever take advantage of. We’ll be talking with David Smith of Lincolnton, one of the lake’s top club fishermen, about how and where he is catching…
We were 45 minutes into a steady, hot rabbit run. Thanks to a pack of well-trained beagles, this particular swamp rabbit was having a tough time trying to end the race. Scott Hulsey from Maysville, long-time swamp-rabbit hunter, had three males on the ground, and I had two females in there with them. Standing still…
Mike Thomas of Social Circle sold me a pair of sister beagles a few years ago. Oh boy, I was in the rabbit-hunting business. So we built an off-the-ground pen with pressure-treated wood and chain-link fence, with a 55-gallon barrel in the back for sleeping quarters. Life was going to be great. On the first…
Things at the state capitol were status quo in 2006. That is to say, they changed every few minutes, and staying on top of legislative happenings got harder as the session went along and bills moved through various stages of the lawmaking process. Two different bills dealing with baiting, a carry-over bill from 2005 that…
What is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and is able to leap several feet out of the water with a single bound? If you guessed Superman, thanks for playing. Enjoy your parting gifts. What I’m talking about is a Georgia fishing treasure: the smallmouth bass. A largemouth is a sneak…
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