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Fishing
Sometimes a graph adds more frustration to a bass-fishing situation than it does to help the cause. Such was the case for Jim Windham and I on Lake Sinclair last week. “There’s a pile of fish down there,” Jim said as his boat drifted over the point we’d just pulled crankbaits across. The graph was…
The food-plot craze is well entrenched among Georgia deer hunters. The idea of improving the nutrition available to your land’s wildlife, while also dramatically improving your chances of putting venison on the ground, has driven more and more hunters to take the food-plot plunge. Farmers we are not, but you wouldn’t know that by the…
When I got the assignment to do a spotted-bass story on Lake Lanier, I must admit that I wasn’t terribly excited. The prospect of sitting at the end of a long point or over a hump dangling a jigging spoon in 40 feet of water over a brushpile wasn’t that appealing. Particularly since it was…
A work day on a Wildlife Management Area spawned from the Friends of WMAs idea started by GON is set for Crockford-Pigeon Mtn. WMA for Saturday, March 16, 2002. “Y’all have a great idea how to channel the desire of sportsmen to help and volunteer,” said area manager Allen Padgett. “I do this with other…
Should “yellow acorns” be legal? With legislators considering two proposed law changes during the 2002 Georgia legislative session that would legalize baiting for deer, GON asked its readers to fill out and mail back to us a survey question on the baiting issue. The number of responses was near a record-high for any GON survey…
When that first break of orange appears on the horizon early on the morning of March 23, I’ll be standing in a riverbottom somewhere, covered from head to toe in camouflage, with a Remington in one hand and a wooden barred owl call in the other. I’ll be on full alert — waiting for my…
If you were one of the lucky hunters who attended the February 14-16, 2002 hog-only quota hunt at Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, there’s a good chance you went home with some pork. Out of 56 hunters, 25 hogs were checked in for a hunter-success rate of 44.6 percent. Bond Swamp, located along the Ocmulgee…
Small lakes offer big opportunities. That axiom holds true in a couple of ways. Look at the Georgia Biggest Bass List in last month’s GON, and you will see that small lakes are well represented on that list, making up more than 50 percent of the entries. Small lakes can produce huge bass. So why…
It’s amazing how much an effect mental attitude has on my willingness to hunt turkeys. I suppose it’s human nature, actually. Charged up and inspired at daylight by the mystery of what adventures a new spring day will bring sends my senses into overdrive as I wait, eagerly anticipating the first gobble of the morning.…
Georgia Fisheries Section is planning on going fishing in March for white bass and striped bass brood stock for the 2002 hybrid/striped bass stocking program. Brood stock fish are caught in March and early April as they make their spawning runs up rivers draining into the reservoirs. With all the state to choose from, WRD…
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