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Vol. 37, No. 9 Ladies and gentlemen of the deer woods, the magic season has arrived again. Go get ’em! Cover Photo by Tommy Kirkland September 2023 Magazine Flipbook Edition Available to paid GON subscribers September Feature Articles No hindsight ip unit displayed. From WMA Bow-Buck To Shoot-Out Truck Winner! Gerald Yoder wins…
We’ll get right to the pink elephant in this years’s GON’s WMA Bow Special. I can’t say for certain because I wasn’t a yellow fly in the Spanish moss, but it’s highly unlikely that five bowhunters took 23 deer over the course of archery season on Sapelo Island WMA last year, giving it what’s currently…
Hurricane Idalia was the main focus in southeast Georgia this week, and there were very few fishing reports. The good ones were from the weekend or late last week. Most rivers will be blown out once the rainfall works its way out of the upper tributaries. Satilla River: Chuck Dean fished the lower tidal river…
The 2022-23 season has tallied up 99 record-book bow bucks, the second-most ever recorded in a single season of Georgia hunting. There’s a chance that as a few late bucks trickle in this fall and winter we could exceed the 2020-21 record season of 111 record-class bow bucks. The state map to the right represents…
No one has ever described striper fishing on Lake Lanier as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Chasing stripers on the 38,000-acre Chattahoochee River reservoir is anything but that. But as striper season heads into fall, two of the lake’s top striper guides say conditions are lining up to make catches much easier. “In…
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Deep in the swamps of southeast Georgia lies Dixon Memorial WMA. One of the states largest WMAs at 36,100 acres, the property boasts a range of diverse habitat that includes swamp bottoms, wetlands, palmettos, pines and thickets. The Georgia Forestry commission owns the property, and timber production is its primary purpose. However, the DNR has…
The world moved slower a hundred years ago in south Georgia. Life was simpler; but, truly, times were hard. There was little industry. No “town” jobs to speak of in a spot as sparse as Soperton. Willie T. Barwick was struggling just to get by in the year 1920, at wit’s end. That’s when he…
The future of bass fishing begins with showing tomorrow’s potential pros and stewards of our fishing resource the ropes. For the fifth year in a row, that’s precisely what went down during the Wiley X High School Fishing Camp Presented by Tackle Warehouse at Murray State University, near the shores of Kentucky Lake and the…
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