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Fishing Reports
Blackshear: Level: 0.1 feet below full pool. Temp: Low 68-72 degrees. Clarity: Slightly stained. Crappie: Rusty Parker reports, “The crappie fishing has really picked up a lot. I have sold my boat, but that’s not stopping me from fishing because a lot of my friends have offered their backseat anytime they went. Last week I went…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 70 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: Tournament director Dennis Hudson reports, “Most of the bass will be coming off the bed around the first of the month, and you can’t go wrong here fishing in the backs of pockets throwing topwater around bream beds. It’s a…
Allatoona: Level: Full pool. Temp: 68 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Good. Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “The month of May brings the end to the spawn and the beginning of a great topwater bite. As the waters rise into the 70s, you will see postspawn fish begin to move to areas where they can recover…
In GON’s Hunting Land Special—a free classified listing that is published each July in GON—we connect hunters with clubs or landowners. All you have to do is get the information in the coupon to GON by the June 13 deadline. Here are three options to provide GON your hunting land information. All hunting land coupon…
Heath Williams, of Augusta, killed two record-book turkeys on April 3 in Burke County. Little did Heath know at the time, but some new property he got permission to hunt on just days before would lead not only to killing his first turkey in Georgia, but also to killing the No. 2 and No. 3…
May is a great time to be a bass fisherman. The topwater bite is great, and there is no more exciting way to catch bass than to watch fish explode on surface lures. While topwater is fun, you can catch bass just about any way you want to fish. If you want to get away…
Richard S. Morris Jr. caught a 14-oz. river-record warmouth on the Savannah River on April 22, 2016.
A night of catfishing from the bank turned into a record-setting experience for a Lake Jackson angler. Donald Kennedy, of Monticello, reeled in a monster flathead catfish on Wednesday, April 13, from Jackson. Donald reached his spot on the bank near the split of the South and Yellow rivers at about 5:30 p.m. He immediately began…
Recently I attended the National Wild Turkey Federation’s (NWTF) Sawnee Mountain Chapter banquet to get primed for turkey season. While there, I caught up with NWTF’s Georgia State Chapter president and the Georgia Save the Hunt coordinator Dave Wamer. I had a few questions for him: 1) Dave, you’re a seasoned veteran with 23 seasons…
Crazy Deer Story Just Shows Deer Don’t Follow Rules Dear GON, I got a strange tale to tell. I’ve been hunting deer since 1967 and never seen or heard of this. Just shows you can’t trust ’em. Opening morning I dropped a 180-lb. 7-point 40 yards away. A couple minutes later a bigger set of…
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