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Fishing
Cameraman Eric Thornton had just focused the camera on me and Rick Wright as we stood in the front of Rick’s boat on Lake Chatuge to film an opening for the GON-TV segment on jigging spoons for bass. We both held fishing rods, and our spoons dangled 40 feet beneath the boat as I began:…
A record buck alleged to have been taken by a bowhunter in west Cobb County on Nov. 29, was in fact the victim of a collision with a car. On Monday, Nov. 29, 1999, shortly before noon, I received a call from Jackie White, a taxidermist who operates Sweetwater Taxidermy on Bankhead Highway in Mableton.…
Buddy Callahan says that bass fishing for Carters Lake spotted bass is a “challenge.” A lot of other fishermen who have spent time trying to catch a bass on this lake use much stronger language to describe the fishing. Bass fishing on this deep, clear-water lake is often cussed — even by the locals. The…
A frigid morning in the foothills of the Lumpkin County mountains turned golden for the GON-TV crew as three hunters limited out on geese. This hunt took place on Dec. 22, 1999 and aired on Episode 39 of GON-TV, featuring Stuart Richardson and Jerry Jarrard.
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…
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