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The purpose and goal of GON’s Coyote Cull effort is to bring awareness to the impacts of coyotes on fawn and turkey poult survival rates, which have plummeted since non-native, invasive coyotes became established across Georgia. No hindsight ip unit displayed. We always say this isn’t about the number of coyotes entered, but this season…
Seminole: Level: 0.6 feet below 77.5. Temp: High 80s to low 90s. Clarity: Recent rains each evening will change this water is slightly stained to clear in some areas. Bass: Guide Aaron Crews reports, “For bass fishing, nighttime is best. Many of the tournaments are nighttime, three-fish tournaments. For low-light conditions, topwater like a buzzbait,…
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Georgia Outdoor Writers Association and sponsors The Southern Company and Glock, announced the winners of the 2021 Georgia Big Deer Contest. The competition is the oldest continuous deer contest in the state, with the first awards being handed out in 1967. The contest is managed…
The Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast returns this year with our traditional date the last weekend in July, and we are coming back to Emerson and the massive LakePoint Champions Center. The grand-prize finale for GON’s Truck-Buck contest will take place Sunday, July 31. We also now have the Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out on Friday. But…
J. Wayne Fears is somebody special in the outdoor field. He has lived a life full of outdoor adventure, and I see him as an outdoor writer’s outdoor writer. Basically, he’s a cut above the average outdoor writer who just writes occasionally and has to really work hard to put the bones on a good…
The Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast is back this year at the LakePoint Champions Center July 29-31. GON will again give away a gun every hour of the show. While you shop and browse the vendor booths and enjoy show events, each hour you will have a chance to win a free gun. We will draw a…
Dacula’s Kristian Pereira pretty much fishes only on Lake Lanier, so when a buddy offered him the opportunity of fishing on the Chattahoochee River for the first time, he jumped at the chance. It was a trip the 26-year-old car salesman will never forget. While stripe fishing, he caught a 7-lb., 4-oz. largemouth bass that…
Georgia’s eastern flank offers some of the best freshwater fishing in the state, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) works to improve bass habitat at the Savannah River reservoirs. The USACE operates three major lakes along Georgia’s border with South Carolina: Lake Hartwell, Richard B. Russell Lake and Clarks Hill Lake. Administratively,…
It’s a tie! The Georgia state record for shoal bass was broken just last year, and now that record has been tied. Clark Wheeler, of Arabi, is the proud new angler who will share the shoal bass state record. His catch, caught on April 16 on the Flint River below Lake Blackshear near Warwick, weighed…
Over the years, Lake Oconee has earned a reputation as a fantastic lake for striped bass and hybrid bass fishing, and its credentials as a productive bass and crappie lake are nothing to sneeze at. With a major new Georgia Power project at Wallace Dam about to go operational, anglers will have an additional…
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