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On May 1, 2000, hunters and anglers everywhere lost a great friend, Mr. Charlie Elliott, of Covington, who was 94. Among his many accomplishments, Charlie Elliott was the author of more than 20 books, served as the southern editor for Outdoor Life magazine and was the first director of Georgia’s Game & Fish Commission. As…
To the smallmouth, the small red jig darting just off the bottom of a rocky Lake Blue Ridge point must have looked like a crayfish or a yellow perch trying to escape. With a flick of its tail it surged forward and hit the jig. On the other end of the fishing line, sitting in…
On April 11, 2000, Tony Ashley, of Carrollton, was plowing a Heard County field when he noticed a coyote standing at the edge of the field. As the tractor passed the coyote, it ran out and chased the plow, biting the discs. The coyote stopped after 20 yards, and Tony continued around the field where…
Jerry Melton, of Americus, had been trying to get his friend and business associate Sergio Chavez, of Phenix City, Ala., to go hunting with him all season long. The two friends were finally able to get together on a Wednesday in early December last season. The result of the hunt was one of the most…
Brian Childs, of Ranger, caught one of three Carters Lake records that were set in the year 2000. Brian’s black crappie weighed 2.07 pounds and fell for a white/blue/white Hal Fly.
Mike Coombs caught this 35-lb., 3.04-oz. record striper on the Chattahoochee on May 15, 2000.
A 3,000-acre tract in Murray County, almost in the shadows of the rugged Cohutta Wilderness, intensively managed for deer for the past seven years. Lush food plots, supplemental feed, minerals, and selective harvest should have caused what has traditionally been a low deer population to literally explode. Seven years on 3,000 acres, where not a…
Have you seen The Perfect Storm? I did. Not the movie, the real thing. It hit the Allatoona Creek arm of Lake Allatoona on April 14. The irony of the weather that day was almost as surprising as the sustained winds and how low the temperatures got. It was about as bad a January day…
Editor’s Note: the following is a letter to GON from Danny Sweat of Albany, recounting what Danny said was “one of the most unbelievable experiences I’ve ever had in my 59 years.” My father-in-law, Dr. Bill Brown, who was a dentist in Blackshear, Georgia, was well known as one of the most avid and experienced…
I saw the white capped head appear over the crest of the hill at a distance of about 50 yards. It resembled a submarine periscope as it scanned its environment. I gave a few soft, subtle hen yelps mixed in with a couple of seductive purrs, and almost instantly the old gobbler that had earned…
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