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Bartletts Ferry: Level: 0.9 feet below full pool. Temp: Upper 80s. Clarity: Clear to light stain. Bass: Good. Dennis Hudson said the bite has picked up some, and it’s taking 10 to 12 pounds to win his Tuesday evening tournaments. He said the best thing going is the topwater bite upriver. The best sacks he’s…
Allatoona: Level: 3.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 89 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Fair. Matt Driver reports, “The dog days are here, and fish are still in that summer holding pattern. Fish are still deep, and the nighttime bite rules. I am fishing very little in daylight hours, only real early and late even, but…
Clyde Yoder’s friends jokingly tell him he’s such a lucky hunter he could put up a stand on the light pole in the Walmart parking lot and probably shoot a buck. Clyde, a very modest and humble hunter, welcomes good luck and said it always helps to be at the right place at the right…
It’s so hot I saw two trees fighting over a dog. When it’s that hot, you have to wonder if it is worth going fishing. The dog days of August are tough, but head to Lake Russell, and you can catch a lot of keeper bass and have a chance at some quality fish. Russell…
A tornado hit Fort Stewart! Well, not really. The whirlwind that swept through on a recent weekend was actually me. Being I haven’t been in the woods for nearly six months due to work travel, I hit Fort Stewart with a vengeance. Thank God there was somewhere in my part of the state open to…
November 20, 1864 between Hillsboro and Milledgeville: “Ten more steps,” the boy breathed to himself as he sighted down the long, octagonal barrel of his muzzleloader. “Just ten more steps…” The front bead of his sights was lined up on the shoulder of the biggest buck he had ever seen. It was standing 50…
Based on the bucks that made GON’s exclusive Fab 40 list, we just experienced Georgia’s best deer season ever for high-scoring bucks. Georgia produced five bucks that scored high enough to make the elite Boone & Crockett record book, which tied the all-time record for Booners killed during one season. The best non-typical killed last…
Some striper anglers on Lanier stow their rods in the summer and wait for cooler temperatures and less traffic on the lake. They prefer to stalk the big linesides up in the shallows during the cooler months when the fish tend to be in the creeks and are more accessible to casting and shallow trolling.…
So far this summer, the Georgia coast has produced two new state records for Georgia anglers, a women’s state record for tiger shark and a men’s state record for red grouper. Pam Page, of Savannah, was fishing near artificial reef JY, about 20 miles due east of St. Catherine’s Island, on June 3 when she…
Justin Tomlinson caught this 37-lb., 14.7-oz. lake-record flathead catfish on West Point Lake on July 4, 2012. Flatheads first start showing up in substantial numbers on West Point Lake around 2002, when hybrid anglers starting catching them up the Chattahoochee River during the spring lineside run. In a 2008 article detailing how to catch West…
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