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Fishing
The big bass wouldn’t bite — at least not at first. In early May, Jacob Ramey, 20, of Bainbridge, Ohio was visiting Georgia and staying at Big Canoe in Pickens County. “We were painting my aunt’s cabin,” said Jacob. “And we were fishing on and off all week.” On May 2, Jacob and his brother…
The Ogeechee River is high and muddy but dropping out fast. About the only condition that could be worse for catching its famed redbreast bream is if the river iced over. But then, even if it did, Carson Cross would likely still manage to come up with a mess of fish. His quiet confidence on…
Mandatory Hunter Safety Dear GON, Over a month ago a friend of mine was shot while turkey hunting (May issue of GON). He and two other hunters were walking down a logging road on a Hancock County lease at 6:30 a.m. listening for gobblers. All of a sudden they heard a shot from a high-powered…
School’s out for summer. The kids are thrilled, but some stay-at-home-moms and dads are already looking for good summer camps. Another group that can’t wait until August is the animal-rights organizations. It seems that schools, public and private, have become a fertile recruiting ground for future animal-rights supporters. Both PETA and HSUS, the two big anti-hunting…
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On June 22, 2004 at approximately 11:30 a.m., DNR Ranger First Class Craig Fulghum received a call from a Georgia Power Co. employee who monitors security cameras installed at Yonah Dam. Yonah Dam is located at the upper end of the Tugaloo River above Lake Hartwell in Stephens County. The employee said he was watching…
Lindy Evans, of Lake Par,k deserves a big ol’ GON pat-on-the-back. Lindy is a retired teacher from Lowndes Middle School who is now spending his summer days running a fishing camp for kids. Camp GOLIJA stands for God, Lindy and Janice, his wife, and it started in 1991. The goal was to give kids a fun…
Conventional wisdom suggests that if you do anything positive to promote hunting in an urban setting, you are bound to fail. The antis will come out and shout you down. Conventional wisdom has some holes in it. If you are a sportsman in Georgia, you just had a positive month. May was good. I think…
Heard that there’s a plan to increase deer harvest numbers once again. What’s it up to now, about 97 per hunter? I remember when we didn’t have 97 deer in the state. But then I also remember when DNR Commissioner Noel Holcomb was the fastest deer-undresser, with a regular old kitchen-type butcher knife, you’d ever…
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