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Lake Seminole Springtime Shellscackers

Lake Seminole has miles of shallow sandy grass flats and sandbars that are ideal shellcracker bedding areas. Head south to Seminole in April and May with an eye toward panfish, and you are in for some fantastic fishing. Seminole is formed where the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers join to form the Apalachicola River just inside…

Whitetails Unlimited Grants $17,000 To Jackson County 4-H

Whitetails Unlimited recently granted $17,000 to the Jackson County Georgia 4-H program on behalf of the Jackson County, Georgia Chapter. Although the 4-H program offers a variety of outdoor and agricultural education opportunities, the primary recipient of the funds will be the shooting sports program. The disciplines offered are shotgun, 5 meter BB, archery and…

GON April Issue 2024

Vol. 38, No. 4 Turkey season is here… a little late, maybe with less chance at hearing a gobbler, but the turkey woods still hold a magical pull. Photo By Tommy Kirkland   April 2024 Magazine Flipbook Edition   Articles available to paid GON subscribers April Feature Articles No hindsight ip unit displayed. Oconee Crappie…

GON April 2024 Flipbook Edition

Realtree Kids: April 2024

2024 Georgia Turkey Special

The 2023 Georgia turkey season marked the second year for the state’s shorter, more restrictive season structure, and according to WRD’s Game Check data, the statewide harvest increased more than 21% from 2022. That sounds like great news for turkey hunters, but don’t start celebrating a return to the good old days of Georgia turkey…

Tournament Reports: April 2024

 

Georgia Coyotes

Several weeks ago on GON.com a great article was published that discussed hunting opportunities for coyotes. The in-depth article provided excellent hunting techniques for how to reduce the negative impact they have on our deer and turkey populations. Let’s dive in a little deeper to this species. Coyotes inhabit all of our 159 counties. However,…

15-lb. Carroll County Largemouth

Brice Rhodes made Georgia big-bass history on Feb. 29, 2004 when he caught a 15-lb., 2.1-oz. bass in a Carroll County pond. His name currently sits at the No. 34 spot on GON’s Georgia’s Biggest Bass of All-Time list. “I was fishing in a cove and threw down the bank under some trees,” said Brice.…

Bottom of the Ninth… The Story of “Trespasser”

By David Hornback My heart pounded on this cold, rainy January day as I watched the buck I had been hunting for two seasons walk toward me. I am an avid bowhunter, and my story began two years ago when a special 3-year-old buck walked in front of my camera. He was beautiful—a perfect main-frame…

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