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Fishing
The bait-clicker on one of Mark Collins’ rods began to click in a slow steady rythym — “click, click, click” as something in the lake took the bait. But as the line began to spin off the baitcaster, the clicks merged into a ripping whir. I grabbed my camera as Mark pulled the rod from…
An errant 8-point buck went on a wild rampage through an Ellenwood Kroger store before five shoppers, who happen to be deer hunters, and the store co-manager tackled the deer and eventually released it back to the wild. At about 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 20, Rick Burdett, of Stockbridge, was about to exit the…
Daniel Rawlins, 16, of Appling, was hoping for a Clarks Hill slab crappie when he was fishing on April 15, 2001. Instead, he ended up landing this 13-oz. warmouth that nailed his minnow. The new lake-record fish fills a previously empty category. Clarks Hill Lake, is a reservoir at the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the…
Never before have so many grown men cried. I’m not the least bit ashamed to admit I was one of them. By the time the networks broke the news that Dale Earnhardt didn’t make it this time, we already knew. The celebration for Michael Waltrip had just begun in Daytona’s Victory Lane, and Mike Rhodes,…
It was just after 8:00 a.m. and I had just made my fourth cast of the morning. My medium-sized crankbait landed right where I wanted it to, just beyond an underwater spring that had been attracting fish as of late. I gave my reel seven or eight good cranks trying to get my bait down…
James Davis, of Evans, was in a fishing tournament on Feb. 28, 2001 when he caught this 4-lb., 9-oz., jackfish that is the new Savannah River record.
Duke Campbell Jr., of Hazelhurst, was fishing with his daughter Chelsea when he caught this 3.5-lb. black crappie from Lake Eufaula to establish a new lake record. Duke caught his Eufaula slab on Feb. 15, 2001.
More than 300 people searched the Taliaferro County woods the night of December 27 in a search for a teenaged hunter who became lost in the woods after leaving his deer stand. Ben Davis, 14, of Washington, son of Washington Police Chief Mike Davis, was lost in the woods near Raytown for approximately 16 hours…
On Dec. 30, Buddy Judd, of Macon, was deer hunting in Crawford County. As he still hunted through some planted pines, he heard the distinct sound of a deer stomping its foot. Buddy stopped to scan the woods but was puzzled that he could see nothing despite having a clear view for 50 or 60…
Every year, GON readers send us photos of unusual deer they have killed. Hereʼs a look at some of the odd-ball deer from the 2000 season.
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