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Hunting
Ever since the hype of “Swamp People,” catching an alligator seemed like something many people wanted to add to their bucket list. Well, on Sept. 22, 2024, four friends were able to check that one off their bucket lists! It took six years to build up his points, but Daniel Garrett finally got drawn for…
Last month, we covered some background on our turkey season that opens up on private lands on March 29 and on April 5 on public lands. By the time you’re reading this, many turkey hunters will have already been out in the woods searching for a longbeard. However, there was a great opportunity that was…
Lookahere, I’m in a tad of a dab of a hurry—leaving for three days on Eufaula (YEEHAW!)—so hush up and lissen. This won’t take long, and includes some stuff you likely won’t believe and others you’ve known for years. Sort ‘em out for yourself. I’ve got a fan! Finally! Took 37 years, but one showed…
GON’s Next Generation Dear GON, After a long day at work, I came home to find my latest edition of GON in the mailbox. I sat down to check it out when my grandson Silas arrived and wanted to see what Papaw was doing. I soon realized this is now his favorite book because it…
Peyton Dunn, of Fitzgerald, won the ABA-AFT Division 25 tournament on Lake Hartwell on March 16. He weighed in 21.16 pounds. What was really exceptional about his bag of fish was that it was anchored by an 11.03-lb. largemouth. “To my knowledge, it’s the biggest bass weighed in on tournament scales for Hartwell,” said Peyton.…
A group of five young hunters from North Carolina and more than a dozen dogs trained to find, chase and bay wild hogs were in a boat on Lake Russell Sunday afternoon, Feb. 9, hunting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers property that borders the Savannah River reservoir between Hartwell and Clarks Hill. Meanwhile, a…
If you follow mainstream news, the drum beat of national politics never ends—budgets, departments, confirmation hearings, waste, fraud, taxes, tariffs and Trump… but you’re not going to hear anything about where the crappie are biting or whether there will be any turkeys willing to gobble this spring. At GON, we try to leave national politics…
Freshwater is heating up in the flat waters. Rivers are still mostly high, but some stretches and backwaters will be fishable soon. The Okefenokee is high, but the bite has still been good. Very few people fished the brine with the strong winds and bigger tides earlier in the weekend. Savannah River: Mark Vick fished…
This year marked the second-annual Stephens County FFA Alumni Forestry Field Day Invitational hosted at Plum Dent Farms in Hancock County, where 125 students gathered from six different counties to compete in an FFA forestry skills contest. The event was brought to life by Teegan Jameson, of Toccoa (hence the name of the event including…
An eagle—it sure looks like a big golden eagle— swooped in on a longbeard gobbler and a hen in Charlton County, and the action was caught on the trail-camera of GON subscriber Andrew Chesser. “After we got the photos on the trail camera, I sent my brother out to the site, and the eagle had…
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