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Fishing
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources wants to make sure that red drum fishing continues to be an important part of the social, economic, and ecological fabric of the coast. Should the release of hatchery-reared redfish into tidal rivers and creeks be part of the long-range plan? Many of Georgia’s saltwater anglers think so because…
More fish have qualified recently for GON‘s Lake & River Records list. GON compiles record fish weights for 36 Georgia lakes and rivers. The complete list was most recently published in the March 2005 issue. The lists continue to change, with new entries ranging from a striped bass at Bartletts Ferry to a new walleye…
The waters of the Chattahoochee River begin as little more than a trickling spring high in the mountains of north Georgia. As the river flows southward toward the Gulf of Mexico, it forms some of Georgia’s most popular fishing areas. Lake Lanier, West Point Lake, Lake Eufaula and Lake Seminole are always in the headlines…
I can remember my first time hunting like it was yesterday. “Do you want me to shoot him?” my daddy asked as I sat in his lap and watched the spike buck walk along through the creek bottom. “Yes,” I said, Right after the shot the buck sped off on his death run. Although my daddy…
With a 36-lb. striper already in the boat, all was going right for Team Skin Deep during a striper tournament at Lanier March 26, 2005. Bryan Jenkins, his wife Anita, and their 17-year-old son Brandon needed a striper to fill out the team’s two-fish limit in North Georgia Fishing’s Big Money Striper Tournament. Victory, however,…
By Phillip Robider I have a small tract of land in Bulloch County with a few ground-level hunting boxes. These boxes didn’t have doors — just some camouflage webbing covering the doorway. My hunting partner Hal Schuman and his adult son, Lee, from Atlanta, planned a morning hunt in November a few seasons ago. Unfortunately,…
Here we were, finally, with a boat in the water and geared for bass, making our first casts into the unknown waters of Lucas Lake. The anticipation we felt was similar to when Black Shoals Reservoir first opened to fishing — both were trolling-motor-only reservoirs that opened to public fishing after years of delays. No,…
Randy Dover is in a different boat almost every time you pass him on Lake Lanier. Due to his local reputation for knowing the best docks for crappie, you might think his constant selling and buying of boats is his way of throwing other crappie anglers off his trail. Take one look at Randy and…
Bass fishing at Lake Oconee can be fantastic in May. The weather has stabilized, most of the bass are done spawning and are on predictable patterns, and they are feeding heavily. Throw in the end of the shad spawn, and you can have some of the best action of the year. As anyone who has…
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