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Brand New $1K Ultimate Shoot-Out!

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…

Writer J. Wayne Fears Inducted Into GOWA Fishing And Hunting Hall Of Fame

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 Gun-An-Hour Giveaway Is Back During 2022 Outdoor Blast

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…

Chattahoochee River Bass Record Caught By Striper Fisherman

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…

Savannah River Reservoirs Seeing Good Growth From Water Willow Plantings

  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,…

Flint River Shoal Bass Ties Georgia State Record

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…

Lake Oconee’s New Oxygen System Scheduled To Be Operational In August

  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…

54-Pound Grass Carp Sets Georgia Bowfishing Record

Sometimes when you are shooting fish with a bow from the front of the boat, things are moving fast. The action can happen in a flash. That was the case the evening of June 30 for a group of bowfishermen at Bartletts Ferry, also known as Lake Harding.  J. D. Bond, of McDonough, saw a…

APEX Competitions To Award Georgia Hunters

APEX Competitions is founded on the hunter challenge of fair chase pursuit bringing technology and passion together to provide hunters a platform to be rewarded for their hunting skills. Hunter passion and commitment stem from heritage and spirit calling out to each hunter’s desire to be close to nature and the outdoors. APEX is bringing…

New Lake Burton Trout Record Just A Bit Bittersweet

Tom Fox realized a decades-old dream when he broke the Lake Burton record for brown trout recently, but he says the prize was a little bittersweet. GON has confirmed Tom’s 12-lb., 4-oz. brown trout as the largest-ever recorded from Lake Burton. Mixed in with Tom’s joy was a little heartfelt sadness for a young kid.…

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