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Fishing
Kenneth Carver couldn’t believe his eyes. The net that had been pulled from a drained 3 1/2-acre Coffee County pond just south of Douglas contained a few wiggling catfish, several nice bass and an absolute monster of a bream. The bulging, big-as-a-platter bream measured 15 inches long, 9 1/2 inches across and about 4 inches…
Workers at the Burgess Pigment Co. plant in Toddville (near McIntyre) were surprised to find an exceptional buck swimming in one of their kaolin thickening pools on Oct. 14. The exhaused Wilkinson County buck was lassoed and dragged out of the pond, but when the rope in its antlers was cut, the deer bolted and…
Dear GON, My name is John Payne. I am an avid reader of your great magazine. Last year, I had an interesting hunting experience that I would like to share with you. In December of 1998, while dove hunting in Laurens County, I had a dove fall into a wooded ditch that borders the field…
Editor’s Note: In August, DNR Law Enforcement Cpl. Rocky Wainwright was killed in an ATV accident in Twiggs County. The following article was written by a conservation ranger who worked with Rocky. It is with a deep sense of loss that we with the Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Section bring word of the tragic death…
Denver Hill has a freezer full of elk—and he saved the cost of a trip to Colorado—he shot the cow elk in Cherokee County last Saturday. Denver, who lives in the Macedonia community on Highway 20 east of Canton, was heading out Saturday morning about 10:30 a.m. to check the sights on his deer rifle…
The Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Section is reeling over the loss of one of their own. On Thursday, Aug. 19, a conservation ranger was killed in the line of duty. According to DNR, Conservation Cpl. Rocky Wainwright, 36, of Meansville in Pike County, was killed in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident around 10:30…
For the second time in the history of the Truck-Buck Shoot-Out, a young hunter, an underdog among determined, grown-up competitors, has left the Perry Buckarama with the keys to a shiny new 4-wheel-drive pickup. Aug. 22, 1999 was another unbelievable chapter in the Shoot-Out saga. To begin with, it was the most attended Shoot-Out in…
On May 22, on an 80-mile run off St. Simons to the Gulf Stream, Fred McGinty and the crew of the Dunn Workin’ hooked the biggest wahoo any of them had ever seen, and it was Fred’s 15-year-old son Ty who was manning the rods at the time. On shore the fish weighed in at…
After nearly two months of effort to recapture them, seven of 10 escaped cow elk roaming free in Cherokee County are still on the loose, but state wildlife officials are taking steps to bring the elk roundup to an end. On April 29, 10 Rocky Mountain elk being held in a barn near Woodstock escaped…
The tarpon fishing off the Georgia coast is fantastic during the summer months. Capt. Mark Nobles of Golden Isles Charter Fishing Association took GON-TV out on July 9, 1999, for an exciting day catching tarpon and shark. This segment originally aired nationally on The Outdoor Channel and dozens of local Georgia television stations as Episode…
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