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Georgia Power is drawing down Lake Sinclair about 4 1/2 feet this fall and winter. Plans are for the lake to remain lowered until the end of November. If that makes you worry about fishing there in November, stop your worrying. The bass fishing will be better than it has been in a long while—since…
More Tips For Getting Out Of A Mud Hole Dear GON, Thanks for John Trussell’s good advice in the November issue on getting unstuck. Standing warning to new 4-wheel drive owners is: “It isn’t if you’re going to get stuck, sonny, it’s when!” Wish someone had told me that when I was showing off for…
On the evening of Oct. 31, 2015, my bowhunt started out like most, but it ended in tragedy. My stand is located in an area of 10- to 12-foot scrub oaks with a mixture of pines. The visibility was sparse at best, and my shooting lanes ranged from 14 to 31 yards. Deer activity was very quiet. As…
First Deer Moments As the old saying goes, “You only kill your first deer once.” So, you better make sure you’ve got good photos to remember it by. With some great photo advice on the opposite page, we thought we’d use this page to include some examples of good deer photos. In addition, the pictures…
Send photographs to: [email protected] or 4331 Seven Islands Road, Madison, GA 30650. Include name, subscriber number, hometown, county and date. Also include Twitter and Instagram names if you’d like to see them possibly posted by GON.
Lasting Memories As readers of GON, we’ve all seen the pictures of those outstanding, large-antlered bucks. If you’re like me, you catch yourself daydreaming that someday you will be pictured in GON with your big buck. As my sons have grown up, I take great delight in flipping through the pictures of their harvests. Those…
Send your pics to GON Spy-Cam, 4331 Seven Islands Road, Madison, GA 30650. Include your name, GON subscriber number, hometown, county where the picture was taken, date, time and any interesting details for a caption. Digital photos and caption info can be e-mailed to [email protected].
By Alex Barfield I love to hunt and the challenge of patterning a big mature buck, but the most memorable experience I have when it comes to hunting is getting the experience the look of pure joy and excitement on my sister’s face the day she killed her biggest buck ever. The chase started for…
Misty fog swirls, cool, damp and silent, among the hardwoods, vying to keep the sun at bay in the first hour of opening morning. Here and there come splotches and diagonal beams of brilliance as darkness loses out to the dawn. You know. As a whitetail hunter, you’ve been there. And you just know. The…
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