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Fishing
Blackshear: Level: 0.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 61 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Stephen Birchfield reports, “The bite has been slowing down. The fish have filled up and are moving toward their winter pattern. There are still some fish to be caught, but they are tough to find. Swift Creek has had the clearest water…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.3 feet below full pool. Temp: 63 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: “Everyone is still catching bass throwing crankbaits around the river points near Halawakee Creek,” said tournament promoter Dennis Hudson. “The water temperature is still high enough that the bass haven’t really had to go really deep yet. Medium-running square-bill crankbaits…
Allatoona: Level: 15.9 feet low. Temp.: 56-59 degrees. Clarity: 5 to 7 feet. Bass: Good. Tournament angler Matt Driver reports, “With the weird winter we’ve had the fishing patters are about a month behind this January. Typically the water is several degrees colder, but the lake right now is fishing more like November. There is…
Most of the television media, like CNN, seem to look for every opportunity to portray law-enforcement officers in a negative light. Some viewers might actually forget these men and women actually risk their lives each day when they go to work. If the only news people got about law enforcement was from those television stations,…
The 6 1/2-year-old, non-typical buck watched the field as eight deer ahead of him leaped effortlessly one at a time over the fence like graceful ballerinas to feed in the meadow as the north Atlanta suburb sun kissed the golden horizon. It was another sunset worthy of a Terry Redlin painting. He was the king…
Luther Covington, of Ocilla, recently killed a rare buck in Irwin County. The buck was so rare that according to WRD Biologist Charlie Killmaster, the deer is only the third reported case in the state. “I didn’t recognize him on my cameras until after I got him,” said Luther. “After reviewing my pictures, I saw the…
Noah Pescitelli, a senior at Mill Creek High School in Hoschton, received an athletic scholarship from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) on Nov. 2. Noah is the first recruit for the new Men’s Bass Fishing Program under head coach Isaac Payne. Throughout Noah’s high school career he was very interested in fishing…
When William Tecumseh Sherman and his minions sashayed to the beaches of Savannah 151 years ago this month, they left behind a wide, scorched swath of Georgia from Atlanta to the sea. Among Sherman’s explicit commands was the following, from Special Field Orders 120: “The army will forage liberally on the country during the march.”…
On Sunday, Nov. 22, Keith Loveday suggested to a good friend, Allen Dykes, both of Swainsboro, they should take the Cruz brothers, Alexx and Zak, hunting the day before Thanksgiving. Both Keith and Allen are members at Hawhammock Baptist Church and had recently gotten to know the Cruz brothers after their church hosted a 30-30 Ministries‘ DEER CAMP.…
Imagine that you are slowing drifting with live gizzard shad when several stripers start pounding the surface in a feeding frenzy only 20 yards away. Do you try to troll through the stripers, or do you pull out your surface lure and make a long cast into the fish? When opportunity knocks, it’s often best…
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