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Bartletts Ferry: Level: 1.8 feet below full pool. Temp: 50 degrees. Clarity: Stained to muddy. Bass: Tournament director Dennis Hudson reports, “Due to the recent rainfall amounts, bass fishing has been slow, but it is improving. Try crawfish-colored crankbaits, chartreuse spinnerbaits and ChatterBaits, which have been best for bass of late. For some reason the…
Allatoona: Level: 10.7 feet low. Temp: 46-49 degrees. Clarity: Stained to muddy. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “Fishing is tough right now. This is very typical for the month of February. Allatoona is had copious amounts of rain and very cold weather at the end of January. The lake is stained to muddy. The water temperature has dropped into the…
Mitchell Grimsley is a 15-year-old sophomore at Towns County High School where he competes on the high school fishing team. Mitchell’s GON Blog centers around his fishing outings and tournament experiences in Georgia. We fished Lake Eufaula for a tournament on Jan. 19. With all the recent rainfall, Eufaula was very muddy with a clarity…
A deer hunter from Cumming, who wishes to remain anonymous, helped law enforcement officers catch a man after equipment and hunting supplies began to disappear from his Wilkes County hunting camp early in 2018. “I was really upset. I had felt like my rights had been violated,” said the hunter. After things went missing, and…
Donna McDowell leaned over a microscope in a dimly lit laboratory recently as she peered into a twin-lens eyepiece. She prefers to work with the bright, overhead fluorescent lights turned off so she can see better through the microscope, she said. “It’s just a little easier,” said the veteran marine biologist with the Coastal Resources…
By Alton Powell The story on my 1982 buck from Fannin County on Cohutta WMA… my wife and I drove our pickup camper up there and hunted early morning. The buck came along about 9.45 on a steep hilltop where he had scraped in several places. We were both up separate trees about 150 yards…
Michael C. Johnson, of Plainfield in Dodge County, started trapping and harvesting predators about nine years ago to have more wildlife on his property. A paramedic instructor and an ambulance service supervisor, Michael is passionate about having the most wildlife possible on the 4,000 to 5,000 acres his friends and family either own or allow…
The Coastal Resources Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources announced a new women’s state record for pinfish (lagodon rhomboides), landed Dec. 28, 2018, by Jordan McCullough on Skidaway Island. McCullough, of Savannah, caught the 12.8-oz. pinfish using live shrimp as bait while fishing in a tidal creek. The previous state record, set in…
Practically every person who ever held a fishing rod spent some time in the back of the boat at some point. Even legendary anglers like Kevin VanDam, one of only two men to win four Bassmaster Classics, not to mention his numerous other titles and honors, began his illustrious career standing closer to the gasoline…
Tom Cooper was living in Lilburn and was 33 years old when a chance happening in the Georgia deer woods changed his life forever. On the morning of Nov. 24, 1974, he set out alone in the cold darkness, driving toward public land for a typical day in the woods. As an avid deer hunter,…
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