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GON Kids – May 2021

Fish-n-Learn Program Hosts 18 At Charlie Elliott On April 9-11, 18 participants joined WRD Fisheries and Education staff at Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center for a weekend of fishing known as Fish-n-Learn 2. Children and their chaperones learned the basics of bass fishing, fisheries management and regulations, along with fishing techniques. Fish-n-Learn offers a series of…

Picking A Partner

Finding the right hunting and/or fishing partner is an extremely important and serious undertaking and can sometimes take years. Ideally, it should be someone with the same level of love for your chosen sport and of similar personality and disposition. After all, you will be sharing one of the most significant portions of your life with…

Realtree Kids Scrapbook – May 2021

 

Hunter’s Journal – May 2021

By Shawn Lumsden The morning starts no different than any other morning in the turkey woods. My wife Chelsea and I wake up much earlier than need be, gather our gear, brew a pot of coffee and prepare for the morning hunt. We are beyond excited to begin the second weekend of Georgia’s 2019 spring…

Letters To The Editor – May 2021

Another Side To Using Deer Feeders On Your Property Dear GON, Most deer hunters jump at the chance to lure deer into a feeder. I am sure there are success stories out there, but there is more involved in suppling a ready food source in the woods to get that deer.  I fully understand why a…

Kids Outdoor Outpost – May 2021

Springtime Spring in Georgia… for those who spend much time in the outdoors, there isn’t a season that holds more promise than spring. What an awesome transition from the bleakness of winter. I really don’t believe there is a season that carries quicker and stronger changes than spring. Summer slowly subsides here in the South.…

Fact From Fiction, And The Role Of Bias

If you saw a series of 200 photos of a mature whitetail buck getting nipped and bitten for hours by two coyotes until it was killed, what would you think? It might depend on what you already think. We all have an innate, basic human nature to form beliefs and then to search out tidbits…

The 2021 Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast Is Aug. 20-22

The Blast is back! The Ag-Pro GON Outdoor Blast, presented by Georgia Drives Chevy, is a sure sign of a return to normal from a crazy year. And yes, we are still giving away a gun every hour of the show, no raffle ticket to buy. The big news for the 2021 outdoor show is…

Springtime Coyote Trapping Sets That Work

I caught my first coyote in 2014. It took a 15-day trap line to do it, but I finally got the reward of removing a fawn killer from my hunting property. Since then, there have been others and more knowledge learned. Today, I still have volumes to learn about trapping the crafty coyote. They are…

Sinclair Bass Shallow In May

Chad Carver, a longtime GON reader from Baxley and a Lake Sinclair regular, is a master of catching reservoir fish shallow year-round. I’ve been trying to nail down a story on Lake Sinclair with Chad for a couple of years now, but between his schedule and mine, it took us a while to finally get…

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