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Gorman Riley is one of those rare deer hunters who decided that he wanted to kill a Boone and Crockett buck—and then went out and accomplished the feat. Gorman, born and raised in Harris County, killed his first buck when he was 10. At 15, he told his father that he was going to kill…
You are going to have more places to go hunting this fall, and it’s land you helped buy. To date, state hunting-land purchases with money put up by hunters and fishermen total approximately 33,000 acres. The land, comprised of 11 different tracts, is all located in middle and south Georgia. Most of the new state-owned…
The crisis is over; the kids are safe; the Allatoona alligator has been captured The story started in mid-June with the first reports called into the Northwest Region Game and Fish Division office of an alligator sighting at Lake Allatoona. The menacing gator was reportedly lurking near Little River Landing—specifically in the first cove on…
Game and Fish Division Biologist Todd Holbrook has been named the new assistant chief of the Game Management Section of the Game and Fish Division. Holbrook, who was selected as the Biologist of the Year for 1988, was formerly the state waterfowl biologist in the Fort Valley office. Prior to that assignment, he was a…
Pritch Morgan was killed last Oct. 9 in Oglethorpe County. As he made his way to his bow stand, Pritch was shot by a man with a rifle in the woods during archery season. In the wake of that tragedy, Georgia hunters demanded that laws be strengthened to harshly deal with criminal acts committed in…
J. Leonard Ledbetter, DNR Commissioner, must be doing a tremendous job for the people of Georgia. At $78,349, his salary has jumped more than 40 percent in the past six years and now surpasses all elected state officials salaries except the governor. Interestingly, appointed officials like Mr. Ledbetter tend to make more money than do…
Georgia Outdoor News has received two prestigious awards for excellence in reporting sportsman’s issues. At its annual meeting three weeks ago, the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association (GOWA) presented their highest honor to GON Publisher Steve Burch as the group named him their Georgia Outdoorsman of the Year. GOWA President John Trussell said, “Georgia Outdoor News…
Fifty years ago, the land that is now Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge was essentially a desert. Cleared by settlers in the 1800s, the land had been transformed from forest into massive cotton farms. Crop after crop of cotton finally wore the land out, and by the 1870 about half the farms in the area had…
In April, 29 years ago (1960), Ed Scruggs, an excellent trout fisherman and successful businessman, came into my office at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and asked, “If you’re going to manage the Chattahoochee River below Buford Dam as a tailwater trout fishery, what would you do?” Knowing this to be a loaded question…
Big Jim Allen, of Big Jim’s Tackle in Riverdale, and his partner Ernie Gilmer, of Jonesboro, had a day of fishing on Lake Jackson that most fishermen only dream about. In just three hours, they caught eight bass that weighed 64 pounds. They fished 1/4-oz. Edge spinnerbaits with No. 5 willowleaf blades, glitter and white…
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