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Mike Hewell, of Gillsville, established a new record for the upper Chattahoochee River above the highway 52 bridge in Hall County. Mike’s shoal bass weighed 5.18-lb. shoal bass, and he caught it in Habersham County. Mike was using a watermelon seed Zoom Finesse worm on 6-lb. test.
In June, 2002, Georgia DNR and the Department of Agriculture enacted an emergency rule closing Georgia’s borders to the importation of farmed, captive-bred deer and elk in an effort to prevent chronic wasting disease (CWD) from reaching this state. The emergency rule is good only for 120 days, but in that time the agencies will…
I met Jay Johnston, of Jackson, and his 3-year-old daughter Ashley at Lake Oconee’s Lawrence Shoals boat ramp at 7 a.m. on July 18. Jay’s boat was already sitting in the water, waiting on me to arrive. I could see the dam when I packed my gear inside his 16-foot jon boat. With the assistance…
Just south of Atlanta, buried in 4,000 acres of hardwood bottoms and planted pines, sits an almost untouched piece of wilderness that is just slap loaded with deer, big Pope & Young- type deer that you can hunt. Did I forget to mention that the property also has two lakes on it that can be…
Imagine a slow drift in a camouflaged canoe two months from now. The leaves are just starting to turn gold and auburn. There’s a slight and somewhat chilly breeze across the back of your neck. Your trusty 12-gauge is strategically laid in the bottom of the canoe, along with a box of high-brass No. 6s.…
Nothing is more critical in deer-hunting success than bullet placement. When you pull the trigger on your deer rifle, you should be completely confident that the bullet will hit where you aimed. The only way to have that confidence and to improve your marksmanship is to shoot your gun. Shooting glasses and ear protection are…
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge’s 35,000 acres of rolling terrain in Jones and Jasper counties may be the best public-hunting property in Georgia. My father certainly thought so in 1967 when he applied for a couple of deer-hunt permits and we went on our first deer hunt. Neither one of us had any real idea what…
Don’t go fishing on the Flint River during the summer if you are afraid. Afraid of stranding your boat on a sandbar and having to walk out of the river through the swamp at night. Afraid of the repair bill after bending your prop or knocking your lower unit off on a submerged tree trunk…
It’s the opening day that Winchester, Remington, Federal, Fiochi, and other shotgun-shell manufacturers love — dove season. Georgia’s 2002 dove season opens September 7 in the Northern Zone, and on September 28 in the Southern Zone. From a shotgun-shell manufacturer’s point of view, doves are the perfect game bird. Put simply, they are difficult to…
Although Allatoona can be a very tough lake, it can also come alive late on an August afternoon. It can be tough to catch fish on Allatoona, but bass are feeding if you know where to go and what to use. Spend some time on the lake and you can have a decent catch for…
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