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Fishing Reports
Sinclair: Level: 1.8 feet below at 340. Temp: 82-85 degrees. Clarity: Light stain in the Little River. The Spalding County Sportsman Club fished Sinclair on Aug. 24 from 6:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. on a cool morning, a hot midday and no clouds but some breeze. Eleven of us landed 15 keepers weighing about 26…
Saltwater: Inshore: Capt. David Newlin reports, “The best fishing of the year is always the month of September on the Georgia coast. The fish catching here is as good as anywhere in the world in September. I have fished all over the South and no place has fish catching like we do in September. The…
On Aug. 24, Jacob Crews decided to make a trip to the Alapaha River after finishing his morning shift at the CSX Rice Yard in Waycross. “I had made a trip over there a week or so before, and that was actually my first time fishing the river. I fished out of my kayak and…
The Youth Big-Buck Contest Shoot-Out was just held July 26 during the Ag-Pro Outdoor Blast. We watched another young hunter, John Kilpatrick, compete and win a BB gun shooting contest to earn a $3,000 shopping spree at https://adventureoutdoors.us and a weekend hunt at https://www.woodsnwaterinc.com. The runner-up prize in the Youth Big-Buck Shoot-Out is a CVA…
Few calls generate a more pronounced roll of the eyes as the cougar sighting. Brad Gill and I have been at this for a very long time—35 years for me and 26 for Brad. We’ve easily looked into more than a thousand reports of a cougar in Georgia. We even ran a year-long Georgia Cougar…
Hunters can get a jump on the waterfowl season with the upcoming early teal and Canada goose hunting seasons. Early Canada goose season for 2024 is Sept. 7-29, with a daily limit of five geese. The early teal season for 2024 is Sept. 14-29, with a daily limit of six teal. “Teal migrate earlier than…
It’s rare for a week to go by without GON being contacted about a Georgia cougar or panther sighting. Even more rare is an ounce of credibility to any of those reports. Although not definitive, two recent trail-camera pictures from rural Muscogee County east of Columbus are certainly compelling—to say the least. The images above…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District, Hartwell Lake Project Office will open three of its larger recreation areas for hunting during the regular hunting season for 2024-2025 in Georgia, in addition to the seven areas within Fant’s Grove Wildlife Management Area in South Carolina. In Georgia, 410 acres at Hartwell Dam Quarry Area,…
Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge in central Georgia is turning to an electronic sign-up process to fill their upcoming deer and turkey quota hunts. In the past, they used the U.S. Postal Service to fill quota hunts, but with current struggles with delivery of USPS mail, the electronic change at Piedmont seems to come at an…
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