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Fishing Tournaments
Burton: Level: Full pool. Temp: 79 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Fair to good. Guide Wes Carlton reports, “The largemouth bite has been fairly decent. Most of the fish we are catching are in 16 to 18 feet of water in the creek pockets. Concentrate your efforts near grass or brush. Try using a bream-colored bait…
Blue Ridge: Level: 4.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 82-84 degrees. Clarity: Clear; 6 feet visibility.Bass: Good. Guide Eric Welch reports, “We’re catching fish on a drop shot using 4.5 Roboworms and Zoom Trick Worms on shaky heads. Also keep a Zoom Fluke tied on for breaking fish and to throw around docks and laydowns.…
Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.5 feet below full pool. Temp: 82 degrees. Clarity: Light stain. Bass: Good. Tournament director Dennis Hudson reports that after a dismal year of bass fishing on Bartletts, things have suddenly picked up dramatically. “We’ve had a lot of mayfly hatches,” he said. “Mayflies have been on everything along the river banks.…
Allatoona: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 88 degrees. Clarity: Ranging from clear to stained in the Etowah River. Bass: Fair: “Fishing during August on Allatoona can be tough,” said tournament pro and radio host Matt Driver. “The fish are weary from the long summer and still not to the mode of fall feed…
On July 10-14, the Archery Learning Center Hornets archery team, form Snellville, competed in the Easton Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) Nationals in Hamilton, Ohio. After 12 long weeks of preparation and more than 130,000 practice arrows fired, the team was ready. Eighteen kids from the Hornets competed and brought home 13 medals and two…
The day was Oct. 23, 2012, and the thermometer read 88 degrees. I was slipping in for an afternoon bowhunt in middle Georgia. I had my Lone Wolf climber on my back, wearing only a camouflage short-sleeve shirt and my Bug Tamer jacket strapped to my climber. By the time I reached my tree, I…
On whichever side of the philosophical predator fence you sit, there is no getting around the fact that coyotes are opportunistic killers. They travel along roadbeds, fence rows, edges of open fields and anywhere else there is a break in habitat. Their keen noses and sharp, alert eyes are always in the active, target-acquisition mode.…
Summer is a great time for outdoor recreational activity, particularly if it has anything to do with water. Clark Hill, near Augusta, is a favorite of local residents and fun seekers from both Georgia and South Carolina who show up in large numbers to enjoy this beautiful body of water. Clark Hill is a fine…
Hunting buddies Steve Taylor, Jerry Rushing Jr. and Adam Waters, all of Statesboro, were riding 4-wheelers on some Emanuel County property in Covena when they rode up on a giant timber rattlesnake. “We have killed several diamondbacks and a few timber rattlers, but this one was a freak,” said Steve. “The snake was 5 1/2-feet…
School is out for the summer for the majority of college students across the country, but for 136 collegiate bass anglers, the biggest test of the year still lies ahead of them. Sixty-eight two-angler teams representing 49 colleges and universities are doing their homework in preparation for the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series National Championship to be…
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