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West Point: Level: 0.8 feet above full pool. Temp: Low 70s and dipping into upper 60s on cool mornings. Clarity: Mostly clear. Bass: Good. Guide Keith Hudson reports, “Expect fishing to get much better as we move into November. The shallow bite should improve drastically with the cooler temps and a nearly full lake. Shallow-water…
Eufaula: Level: 4 feet below 190 full pool. The corps has dropped the lake to 186 (at 185.56 currently) to work on the dam. Temp: Low 70s. Clarity: Stained to slightly muddy in some creeks. Bass: Tournament angler Les Bratcher, of Big Bite Baits, reports, “The fishing here at Eufaula is good right now with…
The Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) has issued a draft permit—a final permit will come soon—that would relax testing requirements and discharge restrictions for a textile plant in Screven County with a history of damaging discharges into the Ogeechee River. A 2011 incident at the plant near Dover caused one of the worst fish kills…
It wasn’t exactly a packed house of roaring fans when Luke Rountree, of Adel, won September’s Truck-Buck Shoot-Out before driving back to Cook County in a brand-new Chevy pickup from John Megel Chevy in Dawsonville. Ask Luke if he cares. Pretty sure he was happy just the same. Due to COVID concerns from the Infinite…
The timing of the rut peak gets lots of attention from deer hunters, but the pre-rut cruising phase may just be the best time to get on a more predictable plan to kill a mature buck. That exact scenario was mentioned by several of GON’s Hunt Advisors this month. Here are their reports through the…
“Lake Hartwell is a paradise.” Those were the words that kept running through my head in October 2002 as I stared out the window of my new work home at the Clemson office of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). I had spent the previous 12 years working for SCDNR in Columbia on…
A tall-tined buck with a symmetrical rack should set a new Hancock County record as the best ever taken with a bow. And that’s saying something special coming out of one of the Piedmont Region’s top big-buck counties. The buck was taken on opening day of gun season by Dalton Trammell, who decided this season…
I’ve always said that when it’s your time, it’s your time. Hunting personality Travis “T-Bone” Turner, of Hogansville, has struck again. His latest Georgia giant whitetail grosses 186 and was killed with a muzzleloader on the evening of Oct. 11. Just three weeks ago GON reported that Travis shot a 160-inch 10-pointer with his bow.…
Ahhhhhh public land hunting, you gotta love it. Throw a hundred and fifty hunters on a 10,000 acres, all with high hopes of killing a whitetail with a set of horns that a moose would envy, and you better believe there’s going to be problems. I’m a member of several large social media outdoor groups,…
The Georgia state-record blue catfish mark has been shattered by 18 pounds. The new record is a Lake Eufaula monster that weighed 111 pounds and was caught by Tim Trone, of Havana, Fla., this past Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 during a tournament. “I am beside myself right now,” said Tim. Tim was fishing a daytime…
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