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There had to be a grin under Ricky Joe Bishop’s camo face mask. The big gobbler was committed, and Ricky’s calling was sounding sweet. The bird was sounding off each time the slate call put out those tantalizing clucks, yelps and purrs. This old bird was convinced a sultry hen was calling his name. Ricky has…
At long last, the white-bass run is on at the Coosa River. It was late this year. The Coosa River is where the WRD Fisheries Section collects white bass for the state’s hybrid bass stocking program. On Friday, March 8, Fisheries biologists were on the river using electro-shocking gear and found no white bass. But…
Since Lake Oconee first filled with water in 1979, I’ve seen a lot of changes take place on this middle Georgia lake, some good, some not so good. I’ve been guiding on Lake Oconee since 1980 and watched as the changes slowly took place. In the early 1980s, Lake Oconee was a lake with miles…
Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. With all the praise and positive publicity that’s been given to Rockdale County’s 650-acre Black Shoals reservoir, many anglers have overlooked the better-than-average chance to get your arm broke just a few miles west at Brooks Lake. It’s public, it’s cheap, it’s very accessible, and…
Not everyone can afford to buy and maintain a boat. Don’t let it get you down. There’s people out there by the truckloads who don’t own a boat, and they’re not letting it stop them from catching a cooler-full of fish. They just take a bucket, plop themselves down on it and do their fishing…
It really was like playing musical chairs as a kid. There were three of us that kept circling the floor of a white, 23-foot Carolina Skiff. Each of us was eyeing the other, wondering which lucky angler would be positioned just right when the music stopped, or as was the case, which one would be…
The worst day in DNR Law Enforcement Ranger Leon Tucker’s life started out as an ordinary day. On March 24, 2001, opening day of Georgia’s turkey season, Leon and rangers Darrell Watson, Patrick Dupree, George Tharpe and Greg Moody met around 5:30 a.m. near a church in Echols County near the Lanier County line. At…
Bass fishermen look forward to the month of April like toddlers wait for Christmas. Good things happen in April for fishermen, and Clarks Hill is just about the best lake in the state to take advantage of those good things. If you like catching bass in shallow water, now is the time and Clarks Hill…
Two rods bent over on the front of the boat as we slowly drifted across Lake Varner on a recent breezy afternoon in February. Dennis Young, my partner and guide for the afternoon, grabbed both rods and sat on one as he reeled in the first fish, dropped it in the boat, then quickly brought…
If the news that giant stripers are being hoisted from the Savannah River reserviors above Augusta sounds like a broken record — it is. For the second time in 11 months, South Carolina fisheries officials are evaluating a new South Carolina state-record striped bass: a 59-lb., 8-oz. monster caught in Lake Hartwell Feb. 3 by Georgia…
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