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Hunting
Before dawn last archery season, Luis Izquierdo was on the way to his bow stand at Misty Oaks Plantation in Worth County when he stumbled across an amazing scene. While jumping a barbed-wire fence separating two fields, a doe had caught one hoof between the top two strands, which twisted together and trapped the deerʼs…
On April 18, 2001, Gov. Roy Barnes added his signature to House Bill 301, the “right to hunt and fish” law, bringing a successful end to nearly six months of effort by the Conservation Congress and the Legislative Sportsman’s Delegation to achieve greater legal protection for outdoor sports. House Bill 301, known also as the…
By the first of May, most of the big Hartwell bass have finished spawning and are waiting on the main-lake points for the blueback herring, which are just moving in to the gravel bars and sandy points for their spawn. May is one of the best times to catch a bunch of grown Hartwell bass, and…
We started fishing at 7:10 a.m. By 7:15, Jim was reeling in our first bass of the day — a 1-lb. spotted bass that hit a spinnerbait churning past a dock. At 3:15 p.m. Jim boated our 30th bass of the day, another 1-lb. spot that gulped up a Carolina-rigged worm. Throw in three striped…
There is no better place to be on a May morning than topwater fishing on a lake full of hungry stripers and largemouth bass. Topwater action in central Georgia is at its best in May. The water is warm and most bass have finished their spawning activities and are concentrating on eating. If a topwater…
When it’s the dead of winter, fishermen cry about the cold and the slow techniques it takes to catch a few bass. By August we’re cursing the Georgia sun, and we’re dreaming of mild days and aggressive, easy-to-catch bass. Well those days are here right now. The month of May has to be one of…
The tide on the outer bar was going to top out around 7:15 p.m. at a height of about 8.1 feet. The water wouldn’t hit the high mark on the marsh at my spot until about 8:00 p.m. Plenty of time to get in a day’s work, yet still have a couple of hours to…
The easy sweep of black water around cypress and black gum knees, across shinning sand bars and through deep, seemingly bottomless holes is peaceful and serene. But don’t let Brier Creek fool you. Just below the surface of the cool, coffee-colored water lies a boiling, raging, line-peeling fight just waiting to happen. All you need…
May and June are special months in Georgia for fishermen — the time of year when bream fishing is at its best. Watching a bobber, or tossing a spinner to bream beds, is extremely fun whether you are seven or 70. It’s a great way to load up a livewell for the church fish-fry, or…
There’s plenty of different techniques you can use to load up a stringer slap full of crappie — corked minnows, tight-lining, trolling, jigs, jigging spoons and probably even a few more that I haven’t tried. Last month on Lake Sinclair I got to learn a different and very enjoyable crappie-fishing technique — shooting docks. Shooting…
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