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Fishing Reports
The rivers are back to full bank or in the floodplains for the most part. The exception is the St Marys River. It’s very fishable. Altamaha River: Paul and Steve Williamson fished the middle river on Friday and did well for panfish. They had a few catfish, but the shellcrackers were the prize. They put worms…
“Rarely do opportunity and timing collide.” Those words sum up Mark Williams’s decision to retire after 13 years as the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Starting July 1, he will leave his current position to serve as the Executive Director of the Jekyll Island Authority. As a resident of St. Simons Island,…
Robert DeHaas, lure-maker with Red Rooster Custom Baits and an OG from “Team Geezer,” reports, “The water temp is 79 and clear. For some reason there are still some active crappie at the 8- to 10-foot range. Red Rooster team members (retired veterans) Jared and Jerrod, one guy from Cartersville, the other from Acworth, fished…
The Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast returns again this year to the sprawling LakePoint Champions Center from Friday, July 28 to Sunday, July 30, and just for walking in the door, attendees will again have free chances to win a gun in a drawing that occurs every hour of the show. A name will be drawn every…
Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “The last few days have been big tides, a lot of muddy water but good fishing. The key is finding water with some visibility. You are wasting your time in the water that looks like chocolate milk. The flounder bite is getting hot. I had 16 good ones on June…
The wooly bugger landed with a small ripple above a large pool on the West Fork of the Chattooga River, and I began to strip the fly between the rocks at the head of the pool. As the fly began to enter the calmer water at the head of the pool, I felt that distinct…
In September 2022 I flew out to Kalispell, Mt., picked up my rental car, and drove toward Two Medicine Campground, hoping I’d be lucky enough to claim a campsite. I arrived just in time to snag the last available site. Whew. Time to relax and get some rest after a 15-hour day of travel. I…
Wow, what a difference a week makes! We’ve gone from the upper rivers clearing up and dropping lower than you can get motorboats around in to rising fast again. The bigger rivers will take a little longer for that to happen, but the last couple of days of rain will probably push all our rivers…
It seems almost inevitable that at some point Georgia’s deer herd will be affected by Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). After cases in Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina, Georgia has thus far dodged the CWD bullet, although the bullet seems to be hitting closer. A Georgia case hasn’t shown up yet, but a CWD positive…
Little more than a month after Seth Shoults, of Cartersville, set two Etowah River catfish records in one night, he guided his nephew into the Lake Allatoona waterbody record books. On the evening of April 21, Seth established the new blue catfish and channel catfish waterbody records on the Etowah River. He caught a 7-lb.…
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