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Are you used to pulling up at a boat ramp on Lake Lanier, getting your envelope out of the box, sticking in $5 and going fishing? If so, you need to know about big changes that took effect at some U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ramps on April 1. Citing safety reasons and an increasing…
My lifelong friend, Ducky Jones, and I were lamenting the state of today’s kids recently. On beautiful warm weekends, they are actually indoors, by choice, hunched over a computer screen, killing robots in some silly fantasy game. How sad. I asked Ducky if he remembered one particular weekend when we were kids and got involved…
Jackson Bass In May With David Lowery 10 locations to find hungry postspawn bass at Lake Jackson. Helicopter Used For Di-Lane WMA Hog Control A federal Department of Agriculture program targeted feral pigs at Di-Lane WMA, killing 417 hogs from the air. Coyotes And Deer, An Unwelcome Relationship Coyotes are an invasive species in Georgia,…
Braswell, Georgia – A long and unusually cold Southern winter had the anglers itching to pick up rods and hit Raccoon Creek, one of the southernmost trout streams in the country. First, though, duty called. Nearly 50 retirees, teachers, builders, students and wildlife officials shouldered axes, clippers, shovels and chainsaws and gathered at aptly named…
On the afternoon of May 9, Jeffery Goodman, of Decatur, caught the new blue catfish record for Lake Sinclair, according to GON’s official records. The huge catfish weighed 51-lbs., 14-ozs. on certified scales. WRD Fisheries Biologist Keith Weaver confirmed it was a blue catfish and weighed it around 5:15 p.m. at the Walton Fish Hatchery.…
The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Phillips Outdoors Inc. is joining the 2018 Blast Bargains campaign and will be offering many items at a discounted price during the show. Phillips Outdoors Inc. offers a wide variety of scents, lures and attractants for hunting, trapping and fishing. Blast Bargains is a special part of the…
One hot June afternoon, we struggled to find fish in a sweltering backwater off a major river—until we noticed some activity up ahead. A sight any fly fisherman longs to see, millions of mayflies covered bushes growing along a cypress-lined stretch of shoreline about 10 yards long. As if a million piranhas attacked a bleeding…
There is a new record channel catfish at West Point Lake, which fills a record that had stood as Open. Owen Knabe, of Newnan, landed the fish on April 22, and it weighed at 16-lbs, 7.5-ozs. to establish a new lake record channel catfish for West Point. Two species of invasive catfish—the blues and the…
Even after 10 years of watching with morbid curiosity, I find myself still enthralled with the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. I am fascinated by the raw, primal strength and mysterious beauty of the great white shark as unsuspecting seals are stalked from deep below. With a stunning flash of power and speed, the sharks rocket…
On May 8, 2018, Zoom Bait Company, based in Watkinsville, issued the following statement on its website zoombait.com. It is with great sadness we announce the founder of Zoom Bait Company, William Edward Chambers Sr., passed early Tuesday morning. Chambers, a famous iconic lure designer, was diagnosed with a rare form of Mantle Cell Lymphoma.…
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