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Fishing Reports
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: 53 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain. Bass: Capt. Wes Carlton reports, “The spotted bass bite has been good the last few days. We have been catching fish up shallow mid-morning in pockets. Topwater Heddon Tiny Torpedoes in clear and green have been working best. We have been working these around rocks…
Allatoona: Level: Full pool. Temp: 61 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “Fishing on Lake Allatoona is nothing less than amazing in the month of April. Fish are moving shallow and spawning. If you have a favorite technique, you can catch fish with it. There’s not many secrets on how to catch…
The world’s most prestigious professional bass tournament will be returning next year to the site of some of the best moments in the sport’s famed history. B.A.S.S. officials, along with Visit Anderson and VisitGreenvilleSC, announced on March 30 that the 2022 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk will be held for the…
A 2020 Boone & Crockett buck from Jefferson County was recently measured and as of now claims status as the best typical-scoring buck from last season. The 13-pointer, killed on Nov. 21 by Zac Peters, of Wrens, grosses 182 3/8 inches and nets down to 174 6/8, making it the first typical B&C buck that…
Since opening to the public on Memorial Day weekend in 2018, a 960-acre recreational fishing lake named Tired Creek has been a fishing gem in extreme south Georgia. Big bass always get the attention of anglers, and Tired Creek Lake in Grady County is certainly producing big bass. The latest is a 13 3/4-lb. giant…
Changes to the 2022-2023 turkey seasons were the most significant proposals in WRD’s hunting regulations package presented to the DNR Board on March 23. All of the proposed hunting regulations would take Georgia hunters through the next two hunting seasons, beginning in the fall of 2021 and running through turkey season 2023. For years, southeastern…
If you are looking for an opportunity to wet a line, how does the thought of 700,000 trout hitting the water entice you? Thanks to the long-standing partnership between the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resource Division and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, anglers can look forward to another great year of trout…
Coastal landowners, guides and volunteers gathered over the youth turkey weekend to host eight kids with The Outdoor Dream Foundation (ODF) as they searched for longbeards. The ODF’s goal is to connect kids and families suffering from chronic or terminal illness with the outdoors. The entire hunt was funded thanks to a local turkey contest…
There’s some pretty good bass fishing on the Oconee River as it flows south below Lake Sinclair through Milledgeville. Leave it to some anglers on one of the nation’s storied college bass fishing teams to tap into that good fishing. Trice Cannon, of Dunwoody, is a freshman at Georgia College and a member of the…
The second of two scoring events for GON’s Truck-Buck Contest and the GON Youth Big-Buck Contest was held in Madison on Saturday, Feb. 27. From among the more than 700 entries during the 2020-21 deer season, we now have the numbers crunched and know which hunters are in line to make the prestigious trip to the Outdoor Blast for…
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