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Fishing
It was just after 7 a.m. on Thursday April, 26, 2001 when Hugh Rainey, of Griffin, went down to the dock in front of his friend Bobby Beasley’s home on High Falls Lake. Hugh, Bobby and Billy Redding, also of Griffin, had been fishing for catfish the day before off the dock, and had left…
The places you can go in Georgia to catch a catfish are unlimited — in fact, try to find a state Public Fishing Area, big public reservoir, river or pay lake that does not have catfish of some kind and see what you come up with. But if a trophy rod-bender is your target, the…
According to an internet news story in the Jefferson City News Tribune, a 45-year-old Viburnum, Mo. man died May 12, 2001 after attempting to swallow a live fish. According to the article, a man simply referred to as “Peller,” who had been drinking with friends, yelled, “Hey watch this,” before grabbing a 5-inch perch from…
For the third consecutive year GON has given away a Realtree turkey-hunting dream trip to a kid in an effort to encourage more youth involvement in hunting and other outdoor activities. Realtree has been gracious enough to host these dream hunts and put our winning kids on some of the finest turkey-hunting land in the…
Before dawn last archery season, Luis Izquierdo was on the way to his bow stand at Misty Oaks Plantation in Worth County when he stumbled across an amazing scene. While jumping a barbed-wire fence separating two fields, a doe had caught one hoof between the top two strands, which twisted together and trapped the deerʼs…
On April 18, 2001, Gov. Roy Barnes added his signature to House Bill 301, the “right to hunt and fish” law, bringing a successful end to nearly six months of effort by the Conservation Congress and the Legislative Sportsman’s Delegation to achieve greater legal protection for outdoor sports. House Bill 301, known also as the…
By the first of May, most of the big Hartwell bass have finished spawning and are waiting on the main-lake points for the blueback herring, which are just moving in to the gravel bars and sandy points for their spawn. May is one of the best times to catch a bunch of grown Hartwell bass, and…
We started fishing at 7:10 a.m. By 7:15, Jim was reeling in our first bass of the day — a 1-lb. spotted bass that hit a spinnerbait churning past a dock. At 3:15 p.m. Jim boated our 30th bass of the day, another 1-lb. spot that gulped up a Carolina-rigged worm. Throw in three striped…
There is no better place to be on a May morning than topwater fishing on a lake full of hungry stripers and largemouth bass. Topwater action in central Georgia is at its best in May. The water is warm and most bass have finished their spawning activities and are concentrating on eating. If a topwater…
When it’s the dead of winter, fishermen cry about the cold and the slow techniques it takes to catch a few bass. By August we’re cursing the Georgia sun, and we’re dreaming of mild days and aggressive, easy-to-catch bass. Well those days are here right now. The month of May has to be one of…
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