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Fishing
Three Canoochee River panfish records were broken in just three days. The Canoochee is still relatively new to the Lake & River Records, and the benchmark records for this river just got a little stronger. Fish No. 1 was a warmouth caught by Tim Stewart, of Glennville. “I fished the Canoochee for the first time…
Ladies Wildcard: Juli McCaskill, 146 6/8 typical County: Turner Date: Nov. 2, Week 8 With a buck that netted 146 6/8, Juli McCaskill, of Statesboro, came in fifth place during a very tough Week 8 in last season’s Truck-Buck contest. That score is high enough to win most weeks, and it was high enough to earn…
Week 13: Clay Crawford, 183 1/8 non-typical County: Early Date: Dec. 12 Clay Crawford, of Blakley, had known about a huge buck with a very unusual rack since 2017 when he started getting trail-camera photos of the deer on the Early County family farm he hunts. Clay said the buck stayed close in…
Week 12: Luke Rountree, 144 5/8 typical County: Cook Date: Dec. 2 Cook County was throwing out some stellar bucks last season. In addition to David Wall’s Week 11 buck that set a record as the best non-typical ever from Cook, there was also a new No. 1 buck of…
Runner-Up Wildcard: Cody Dennard, 158 1/8 typical County: Houston Date: Nov. 8, Week 8 Cody Dennard, 28, was born and raised in Perry and now lives just south in the small town of Elko. “I’ve been in the woods and on the water since I could walk,” Cody said. “Hunting deer, ducks, hogs,…
Youth Wildcard: Janie Funderburk, 140 2/8 typical County: Meriwether Date: Nov. 28, Week 11 The Youth Wildcard is a spot in the annual Truck-Buck Shoot-Out for the highest-scoring buck entered by a hunter 15 years old or younger that doesn’t win a week outright. GON also conducts a separate contest just for kids called…
Week 11: David Wall, 183 6/8 non-typical County: Cook Date: Nov. 28 Last November, David Wall took the week of Thanksgiving off of work to get some good time in the deer woods. “I waited until the early morning of Monday the 25th to go and saw a few does and small bucks…
Week 10: Dwayne Griffin, 140 5/8 typical County: Colquitt Date: Nov. 20 Back in 1992, a 30-year-old hunter from Moultrie killed a 150-inch buck in Colquitt County that earned him a truck in the Hilsman Deer Cooler contest, plus a spot in GON’s Truck-Buck Shoot-Out—at that time only the second Truck-Buck Shoot-Out ever.…
Pretty scary when you turn on the news and see people running in and out of the smashed windows and doors of Lenox Mall and setting fire to your favorite Italian restaurant. The next evening the scene at Lenox was dozens of DNR Law Enforcement trucks, each with a 4-wheeler in the bed, parked in…
After a week of constant adjustments, everything came together perfectly for Buddy Gross on Championship Saturday. The Bassmaster Elite Series rookie, fishing only his second event on the trail, caught a tournament-best five-bass limit that weighed 27 pounds, 11 ounces and sprang from 10th place to a victory in the DEWALT Bassmaster Elite at Lake…
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