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Hunting

Lake Lanier Fishing Report – June 2025

Lanier: Level: 1.2 feet above 1071. Temp: High 70s. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Guide Jimbo Mathley, with Jimbo’s Lake Lanier Spotted Bass Guide Service, reports, “June on Lanier is a topwater bonanza! It is hard to beat the topwater bite in June on Lake Lanier. Spotted bass chasing a topwater bait in wolfpacks from brushpiles is…

Scrapbook Bonus – June 2025

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June Means Kids’ Fishing Events

WRD does a good job offering places for parents to take a kid fishing during the month of June. That list is below. Check for last-minute additions at https://georgiawildlife.com under the “Events” tab. I still remember taking my niece Caroline to one of these events years ago. I just sat back, baited her hook and…

Realtree Kids Scrapbook: June 2025

Without You, We’re Toast…

At the high rate of speed this planet is traveling, there is no telling what GON will look like a decade from now. Will GON be delivered through the air waves and show up in your living room as a holographic projection? I wouldn’t laugh too long. Been to the airport lately and seen that…

Youth Shoot-Out Winner Cashes In On Grand Prizes

Even if there was such a thing as a cookie-cutter whitetail hunt, it likely wouldn’t be a whole lot of fun. But they’re nearly always different, each its own. And sometimes, you just gotta take a break to make things work out. Ask John Kilpatrick, of Thomaston. Setbacks seem to crouch in the shadows for…

Outdoor Blast Attractions Hit All-Time Record High

It’s all subjective, I guess, but it does feel like there’s more to talk about for this year’s Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast than there ever has been since me and the others from GON created this show in 2007 for a place to have our Shoot-Out. From dunking booths and backyard cooking competitions to half the…

Alapaha River At Highway 135

Over the years, I’ve been blessed to work on what now totals to be hundreds of news stories, fishing reports, feature articles, and the like for GON. Sharing the outdoors with others has always been my passion, and I try my best to bring that energy to life through the words that I type. That’s…

Kids Outdoor Zone

It was a glorious morning for my introduction with the crowd from Kids Outdoor Zone (KOZ) ministries. There were about 15 boys in the crowd—which I’m told was a little lower than normal. They ranged in age from eight to 18. There were about half as many dads and church men hanging around doing various…

How The Weeks Were Won: Bucks That Earned 2025 Shoot-Out Spots

For more than three and half decades, a group of Georgia hunters killed a buck that garnered membership into an elite club. The latest members of that group—GON subscribers who killed a big buck through luck, dedication, woodsmanship or a combination of all—will take the stage at the Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast July 27 to compete…

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