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Fishing
When Michael Stefanick finally got the fish to the boat, he knew it was good one. But he didn’t know the 123-lb., 3-oz. wahoo would be a new state record and worth $100,000. Michael was fishing with four friends in the 3-day Bull River Yacht Club Billfish Tournament on June 24, when they hooked the…
You just know August bass fishing after a long, hot, dry summer is going to be tough. You probably don’t think of Sinclair as a good place to go, unless you are planning a night trip to fish lighted docks. But Sinclair may surprise you. Mike Blackshear and Rick Compton brought six bass weighing 16.7…
A makeshift lab for producing methamphetamines was busted recently on Ocmulgee WMA. On Saturday, April 8, Ocmulgee WMA Area Manager Randy Wood noticed tire tracks leading to a gated road. He investigated and found that the cable blocking the road had been cut and then hung to look like the road leading to a food…
November 15 was the first day of Leon McDonald’s week-long hunting vacation, and so far things were going about par for a Monday. It was just after noon and Leon had come from trimming small limbs around some of his stands when he approached his truck and saw the flat tire. He was stuck 4…
Catching trout within sight of his truck just doesn’t appeal to Dale Thomas. Dale, a trout angler who lives in Clarkesville, prefers to fish streams that do not have a road running beside them, and he doesn’t mind having to hike to get to them. On May 11, Dale led GON-TV cameraman James Guthrie, my…
Bruce Berryhill, of Cochran, swears up and down he did not take his second bird—a snowy white tom—from a farmer’s pen. Bruce did not hear any gobbling on the morning of April 15, so he set up on a food plot. “I caught some movement in the end of the food plot, and it turned…
On May 1, 2000, hunters and anglers everywhere lost a great friend, Mr. Charlie Elliott, of Covington, who was 94. Among his many accomplishments, Charlie Elliott was the author of more than 20 books, served as the southern editor for Outdoor Life magazine and was the first director of Georgia’s Game & Fish Commission. As…
To the smallmouth, the small red jig darting just off the bottom of a rocky Lake Blue Ridge point must have looked like a crayfish or a yellow perch trying to escape. With a flick of its tail it surged forward and hit the jig. On the other end of the fishing line, sitting in…
On April 11, 2000, Tony Ashley, of Carrollton, was plowing a Heard County field when he noticed a coyote standing at the edge of the field. As the tractor passed the coyote, it ran out and chased the plow, biting the discs. The coyote stopped after 20 yards, and Tony continued around the field where…
Jerry Melton, of Americus, had been trying to get his friend and business associate Sergio Chavez, of Phenix City, Ala., to go hunting with him all season long. The two friends were finally able to get together on a Wednesday in early December last season. The result of the hunt was one of the most…
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