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We took Champ up to hunt with my good buddy Luke Gunter in Clermont, GA. The land we were hunting was right along the Chattahoochee River, and the only way to get there was by boat. We loaded up the dogs and headed out. After about two hours and a couple unsuccessful jumps, we finally…
Twelve-year-old Chandler Watkins, of Ellijay, knocked the old Carters Lake white crappie record clear out of the water with a 3-lb., 4.9-oz. slab he caught on Feb. 28. The old record was a 2-lb. crappie caught in 2019 by Joshua Higgins. Chandler isn’t exactly a stranger when it comes to catching big fish. “We are…
GON subscriber Dewaine Seese, of Eatonton, had an up-close experience with a confused deer last month. Dewaine was driving in rural Hancock County on Highway 77 that connects Highways 15 and 16 when he drove right up a deer standing in the middle of the road. Dewaine believed the deer to be a buck. “That…
Yeah… nets are for fishing, but when it comes to official scores for bucks, net scores are how they’re recorded. It is what it is. A Tift County bow-buck was one of those that got creamed by the scoring system, but it still came out on top as a new county record. Brad Hamm killed…
As a native of Stone Mountain, I’ve been fishing many of the local lakes and reservoirs for 50+ years. I am primarily a bass fisherman and fished the larger impoundments from a boat, but since purchasing a sit-on-top fishing kayak a few years ago, a lot of opportunities have opened up that are difficult to…
When I grew up in the late 50s and early 60s, my house, in a suburb of Jacksonville, Fla., backed up to a large pine forest with underbrush that was about knee high but not too thick; perfect quail habitat. I can remember waking to the sound of the northern bobwhite quail calling to each…
GON March 2021 Volume 35, No. 3 March 2021 Feature Articles GON’s 2021 Turkey Hunting Special Hunters and biologists ponder what to do about a turkey population that’s dipped far below the glory years in many areas. Clarks Hill LiveScope Crappie The “Back Page” guy didn’t grow up playing video games, but he may…
Editor’s Note: The below story appeared on the GON Forum on Oct. 4, 2020. To read the unedited story, go to https://forum.gon.com/threads/first-real-deer-hunt-with-my-daughter-and-son-and-what-a-result.977964. By Kenny Crowson My 9-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son haven’t been too excited about hunting and usually made comments like, “Dad I can’t believe you’re going to shoot those pretty deer.” So in…
What Is A Poacher I bowhunt in a suburban area north of Atlanta, so my deer season officially ended on Jan. 31, 2021. Georgia has one on the longest whitetail deer seasons in the country, and that is one of the great benefits aligned with hunting in Georgia. Our 2021 turkey season opens on March…
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