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Slow Cooked Cajun Venison Hindquarter Here’s a great recipe for your hindquarter roasts that will produce a fantastic venison meal and save lots of time cutting those roasts down and running a grinder. • 1 hindquarter deboned • Louisiana Cajun seasoning • Vegetable Oil • McCormick Au jus Gravy Seasoning (1-oz. dry pack) • Hidden…
Normally, this is a period fraught with chaos. Never mind the ever-present and who-knows-how-deep black water, claustrophobic brush, vines and briers clawing and ripping; just hurry as best you can. Hounds are roaring out of their minds, hunters sloshing, tripping, bleeding, pushing on… Because some 987 interminable yards into the Okefenokee Swamp, a bear is…
Deer season isn’t quite over, especially if you hunt in one of the counties with the extended archery-only hunting until Jan. 31. A food plot or feeder where the deer haven’t been pressured is tough to beat for some late-season freezer meat. And if you don’t have a food source to hunt, thick planted pines,…
Cold-water cranking is one of the best ways to get bit in the dead of winter. As the water cools, bass become increasingly lethargic and reluctant to eat. Their metabolism slows and they don’t need as much food to survive as they do in the warmer months. On account of their inactivity, catching bass when…
VOTES, which stands for Voice Of The Educated Sportsman, is a GON survey that has been around for more than two decades. A question on the survey each and every year is Rate Your Deer Season, which gives us county-specific ratings that can be compared to historical trends. We’d like to hear how your deer…
Blue Ridge: Level: 11.5 feet below 1681. Temp: 51-58 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Eric Welch, of Welch’s Guide Service reports, “Fishing has been good. We’ve received a lot of rain the past couple weeks, which has brought the lake up some, but the rain we’ve been having has not really been a cold rain, so…
As a kid, I was the victim of a hereditary curse my Mom called “face aches.” She said it was caused by telling too many lies. I have since learned it is a chronic inflammation of the superior sinus cavities—I had no idea some sinus cavities were better than others. Anyway, the condition became worse…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “December has been a good month of fish catching. Warm weather has kept the fish biting. Water temps were still in the high 50s on Dec. 18. That may change in the next few weeks. As long as it stays above 50, the fish will keep biting. Redfish have…
Carters: Level: 0.5 feet below 1074. Temp: 52 degrees. Clarity: 4 feet. Walleye: Guide Eric Crowley, of Lake and Stream Guide Service, “Carters has been fishing pretty good. The walleye are not schooled up but in small groups holding near the bottom on points and humps. Also, look for them under spots and stripers feeding on…
Time to put a period on 2022 and turn the page on what we pray is a better New Year—that’s always that hope and promise this time of the year. Long-time readers have a treat this month, an excerpt written by GON founder Steve Burch, whose monthly musings in this space are certainly missed now…
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