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Hunting
Milly Prince, of Valdosta, may only be just 14 years old, but she’s got a pending No. 3 gobbler ever for a Georgia lady under her belt already. Milly was hunting in Brooks County with some friends on Saturday, April 11 when she rolled the big longbeard. It was her first turkey ever. “We didn’t…
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) announced the promotion of Alan Isler to Chief of the WRD Game Management Section. Alan is a longtime employee of the State of Georgia, having joined the Wildlife Resources Division in 2004 as resource manager for the Wildlife Conservation Section, and most recently serving as…
It’s that time of the year when those south Georgia rivers begin popping up in the headlines. This week, it’s the Canoochee River and a brand-new river record for spotted sunfish, or more commonly called stumpknockers. “I noticed that starting with Mr. Glen Solomon’s warmouth last year that y’all started keeping records for the Canoochee,”…
Derek Pritchett, of Chatsworth, has been called one of the luckiest guys alive after surviving a pair of tornadoes on Sunday night and killing two turkeys, one of them a rare smoke-phase gobbler, just two days earlier. “Both of the tornadoes were not even an eighth of a mile on both sides of my house,”…
When she has the chance, Rachel Brown, 25, of Dallas, Ga., accompanies her dad at their family’s Lake Sinclair vacation home. On Thursday, April 9, they had the chance to go fishing together like they have many times before. “We fished some that afternoon and caught some bass and bream, which is our normal,” said…
I used to worship turkeys. From about my junior year in high school well into adulthood, my pure reason for living was wrapped solely into one single thing: killing wild turkeys. In fact, I had decided that whenever I left this world, I wanted my lasting legacy to be that I was a great turkey…
It was the summer of 1993… Man… just saying that reminds me I’m starting to get old. Anyway back to the story. It’s April, the sun is shining, and I’m in a jon boat hoping and praying to somehow catch my first bass. I’m armed with a Zebco 33 and a Creme plastic worm. I’m…
Allatoona: Level: 3.2 feet below summer full pool. Temp: 62-64 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain to clear. Stripers and Hybrids: Guide Robert Eidson, of First Bite Guide Service, reports, “The bite is wide open right now both up the river and on the main lake. Fishing just doesn’t get much better than it is right now. Shiners, threadfins and small…
Hank Holder, of Porterdale, connected with a pair of B.F. Grant WMA 2-year-old gobblers on Monday, April 6, and both of them were wearing leg bands and had GPS transmitters on their backs. “I’d hunted 17 straight days, miles and miles from Redlands to Oconee National Forest to B.F. Grant,” said Hank. This was Hank’s…
South Georgia turkey hunting is being featured on the Country Outdoors Turkey Tour, an Outdoor Channel series hosted by Mary O’Neill Phillips and her husband Zach Phillips. Episode three of the series released last week featured turkey hunts in Cook County with young country music singer Jordan Rowe. The Rowe family, from Adel, are GON members.…
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