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Clarks Hill: Level: 0.5 feet above 330. Temp: 69-72 degrees. Clarity: Georgia Little River has a heavy stain upstream of Mistletoe. There’s a light stain in the Savannah River. Bass: Tournament angler Trad Whaley reports, “Fishing is weird right now on all our Savannah River lakes. They are spawning to postspawn and everywhere in between.…
Sinclair: Level: 1.3 feet below full. Temp: Mid 60s to mid 70s. Clarity: The lake is muddy to stained from the rivers all the way below Nancy Creek. Bass: Karl Pingry reports, “The bass are on fire! Ed at Lakeside Chevron says it’s taking 23 to 27 pounds to win tournaments right now. There’s a…
It is said most people will have 15 minutes of fame at some point in their lives. For 4-year old Scott James (Jay) Franklin III, the afternoon of March 16, 2023 led directly to the fulfillment of that adage. More importantly, history will remember Jay’s name fondly. Fishing with his father Jake in a cove…
Kevin L. Mote, 36, of Eatonton was arrested on March 18, 2023 and jailed in Putnam County on charges of obstruction of an officer and is accused of the theft of a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) trail camera. According to DNR Law Enforcement Division Sergeant Lynn Stanford, the last image from a trail camera…
As a resident of Upstate South Carolina, Lowell Brannan has spent many days on Lake Hartwell. But the two days he spent fishing the Yamaha Rightwaters Bassmaster Kayak Series powered by TourneyX might have been his best two yet. With a two-day total of 183.5 inches—92 inches on Day 1 and 91.5 on Day 2—Brannan…
WRD has hosted two of their three public hearings this week as they are in the process of gathering comments on proposed hunting regulations for the next two hunting seasons. The final public hearing will be tonight at 7 p.m. at Rabun County Health Department, 184 S Main St., Clayton, GA 30525. The increase in doe…
A new lake record flathead catfish was caught during a tournament at Lake Seminole last weekend. Tim Trone was fishing with his son Chase when he hooked up with a big flathead that ended up taking big-fish honors weighing 53.70 pounds (53-lbs., 11.2-ozs.). Tim is no stranger to massive, record-breaking catfish. He is the Georgia…
A new Georgia state record has been set for the heaviest vermilion snapper caught by a woman angler. The record-setting fish was caught by Stacey T. Pope, of Brunswick, on April 7, 2023. The fish weighed 5-lbs., 5.56-ozs., breaking the previous record of 3-lbs., 14.4-ozs. set in 2018 by Alli DeYoung, of Savannah. Pope caught…
My dad is not a hunter. My dad is not a fisherman. My dad is not what I would call an outdoorsman like me. At an early age, I showed a special interest in the outdoors, despite my father’s indifference to these activities, but I never lacked for places to hunt and fish when I…
Koob Moua, from Monroe, didn’t set out to establish a new Lake Oconee record for blue catfish. In fact, Koob seldom even fishes for catfish, but he might from now on. On March 22, Koob joined his brother Jacob Moua and their friend Justin Pledger in a 16-foot aluminum Bass Tracker boat. Using light tackle,…
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