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Coyotes have invaded Georgia by storm — and the conquest only took a few decades. In 1969, coyote populations were confirmed by hunters, trappers or road-kills in only about 23 counties. Today, coyotes call all 159 counties home. Coyotes received a helping hand in their invasion of Georgia and the Southeast by fox hunters who…
This fall, like last year, has been a great year for acorns across Georgia. From live oaks on the coast to white oaks and chestnut oaks in the mountains, this year’s mast crop has been heavy and widespread. Though the jury is still out on whether a good mast crop helps or hinders a hunter’s…
There seems to be one almost every year — a giant Georgia buck that has gone unrecognized for decades. The latest buck from the past is a 19-point non-typical from Brooks County that has 31-inch main beams. The story of this buck goes back four decades. Donald Duren loved the outdoors and, in the 1960s,…
For those of you who have called or written e-mails over the last month on the whereabouts of “Big Moe,” we now have an answer for you. At presstime, Big Moe was hanging in a cooler. The lucky hunter was Lauren Atwell of Jacksonville, Fla. Big Moe is the giant Harris County buck that appeared…
While antler rubs are pretty simple signposts that involve only scent from the forehead glands, a scrape involves several scent sources and probably has multiple functions in deer communication and reproductive behavior. Despite years of research by wildlife biologists, there is a tremendous amount that we don’t know about scrapes. However, in recent years, we…
Bartletts Ferry is one of the best lakes around for fishing deep structure in September. The lake is full of shallow points that border deep water, a prime place to find fall bass. If you like probing points for bass, Bartletts is the place. Also known as Lake Harding, Bartletts Ferry is an old lake on the Chattahoochee River along the Georgia/Alabama line with…
Most bowhunters relish the thought of downing a record-book whitetail. But, as any deer hunter will attest, it’s not an easy feat to accomplish. Prior to last hunting season a total of 295 Georgia bow-bucks had met the minimum 125 score for inclusion in the Pope and Young (P&Y) record book. Of those, only nine had antlers that netted 150 inches or better. In 2001…
Daylight was creeping through the trees as I nestled high in the solitary oak among the pines. The familiar click of the nock biting the string officially started another day of hunting. But I wasn’t hunting just any buck, I was hunting the biggest buck sign I had found on our entire club. It was…
There’s a “new” kind of fishing fever that’s beginning to accelerate off the Georgia coast, and it makes fishing a whole lot simpler. For hundreds of years, anglers have been setting their hooks on a variety of fish while fishing from a canoe. However, it has just been in the last several years that some modern-day anglers are beginning to see the canoe as…
For good bass fishing, especially for quality-sized bass, one of Georgia’s smaller reservoirs, little Lake Jackson, stands tall. The fishing is tough as summer’s grip clings in early September, but the regulars on Jackson know some techniques that will tempt those lethargic late-summer bass. Like any big reservoir that gets lots of fishing pressure, Lake Jackson can be a difficult body of water to fish. This is especially true during the hot…
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