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As the big schools of Lake Oconee stripers and hybrids race to the dam this month in an effort to spawn, anglers will be waiting on them in boats with suspended bass minnows dangling below their fiberglass hulls. Oconee is a lake where water generation moves both ways, which means linesides don’t only go up…
While at Auburn University, Guntersville’s Jordan Lee twice finished as the runner-up in the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship. One of those times was to his brother Matt. Those bitter memories were erased Sunday as the 25-year-old pro completed one of the most improbable comebacks ever to win the Bassmasters Classic. Lee caught five…
My name is Donna Simmons, and my fiancés name is Darren Carson. We both work at Robins Air Force Base and live in Gray. We both love to hunt and fish. This past deer season started off very exciting for us. We set up a camera on my food plot back in August 2016 to…
Henned-Up Gobblers For Georgia Opener The anticipation of a new turkey season is a special time, but due to the fact that I knew I would be at work instead of in the woods made last week almost unbearable. I spent most of the weekend reflecting on my trip with friends to Florida last weekend. Special memories…
Almost one year since its debut, the free Outdoors GA app has received a new update allowing hunters to check their harvest without needing cell service, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division. “We continue to be pleased with this free mobile app that gives both novice and seasoned outdoor enthusiasts’…
Larry Burns was headed to pump a well in Oklahoma when he saw a sight that he says he has seen every year for the past 10 years. Dead coyotes were hanging on fence posts for as far as the eye could see. This practice of hanging dead coyotes on fence posts dates back to the mid-1900s, when…
Chasing Osceola Gobblers Thursday, March 23: For me, there’s nothing like opening up a new turkey season, and I started mine off in Florida with some close friends over the weekend. After three days of hard hunting, everyone scored except yours truly. Man, these Osceolas were some rude hosts! The birds just weren’t talking and were very…
This past weekend marked the fourth year Georgia has held the “Special Opportunity Season” for turkey. This two-day season gives youth 16 years of age and younger, plus mobility-impaired hunters, the opportunity to get out and hunt the weekend before the statewide Georgia turkey season. I have had the chance to turkey hunt the first three Special…
A Georgia teen has set the record of being the youngest competitor ever to shoot a perfect score of 900 at one of archery’s most prestigious shoots held in Las Vegas. Carson Sapp, 17, of Cairo, began his career in archery through Grady Co. 4-H, and from there he has set many records, including being the…
Ten-year-old Tucker Waits, of Social Circle, put a 50.3-lb. Lake Oconee flathead catfish in the boat after a five-minute battle on rod-and-reel. Tucker was fishing with his dad, TJ, and Charlie Alexander, also from Social Circle, on Saturday, March 4 in the first Middle Georgia Catfish Anglers tournament of the year. “It was 8:30 a.m., and we were…
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