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Bartletts Ferry:: Level: 0.4 low. Temp: 60 degrees. Clarity: Moderate stain. Bass: Tournament director Dennis Hudson reports, “They’ll be all over the banks in April in all stages of the spawn. You can take a floating worm and go all up and down the banks all day long and catch them. You work that worm…
Allatoona: Level: 4.6 feet low. Temp: Upper 50s. Clarity: Ranging from clear to stained in different sections of the lake. Bass: Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “Fishing on Lake Allatoona is wide open. April is one of the best months of the year to catch a quality bass. The spawn started in late March and…
Phil Mills, of Ivey, has an unbelievable deer hunting story that will likely put his name in GON‘s Fab 40 rankings in the August 2018 issue. Phil’s buck was taken Oct. 25, 2017. The main-frame 10-pointer has a 15 3/8-inch third beam and several kickers that allowed for 25 1/8 inches of abnormal inches and a…
Wildcat Creek has always been a popular destination for trout anglers. This small stream that runs through a portion of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Rabun County is stocked seasonally with trout and has offered two primitive campgrounds for a fee of only $10 a night. However, a short while back, GON received a phone call from…
Jason Cone caught a 3-lb., 2.88-oz. American shad on the Ogeechee River on March 22, 2018 that set a benchmark record for the Ogeechee.
Mentor Background: I was born and raised in Dallas, Ga., and I currently still live in Dallas. I started hunting around the age of 8. After killing a couple of deer and turkey within the first few years of hunting, I was hooked for life. I grew up around hunting and fishing. Both were introduced to…
The discovery of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a deer found dead in Mississippi has Georgia WRD officials fine-tuning its response plan should the deadly disease be found here. State Deer Biologist Charlie Killmaster said the state is updating its CWD Response Plan with any new research information gathered from states that have CWD. “The…
I always enjoy seeing the transitions from season to season. I love seeing the leaves changing colors in the fall, and in my opinion, there is nothing more special than the transitions that occur from winter to spring. The temperatures begin to warm back up, and the foliage and native browse turn green…
About 25 years ago, West Point Lake was a prime largemouth bass impoundment that produced many double-digit fish, including at least one exceeding 14 pounds. Impounded in 1974, West Point runs about 35 miles along the Chattahoochee River and covers 25,864 acres near LaGrange. The lake spans part of the Alabama-Georgia line about an hour…
Longtime friend and hunting companion Bobby Knight and I have shared quite a few turkey battles together over the years, and less than a week into the 2008 turkey season, we were smack dab in the middle of another one. Bobby and I, along with another good friend and hunting partner, Cal Marsh, had been…
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