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Georgia’s WMAs are generally pretty heavily patrolled in comparison to private property. And poachers typically aren’t as blatant about their illegal activities on public land. However, turning hunting dogs out illegally on a WMA, like a couple of hunters last year in Bleckley County, isn’t exactly a covert operation. The odd thing is, it wasn’t…
Marty and Glad Simmons, of Clarkesville, were just hoping for a few nice shots of some deer on their trail camera, which is located several hundred yards from their Habersham County home. However, when they had a photo of a large dog standing on a log, which appeared not to be a coyote, residents began…
Several Georgia kids are getting plugged into the tournament game at an early age. The Fishers of Men Legacy trail offers an excellent platform for a parent and their child to compete in a bass tournament without all the stress that sometimes accompanies higher profile bass tournaments. These adult/child tournaments are taking place in several…
The intellectual dishonesty of the Georgia Wildlife Federation (GWF) continues to be impressive. Last month I ended this editorial noting that the GWF — through its wholly owned sportsman’s facade called the Camo Coalition — objected to the legislature’s plan to treat all specialty tags the same. Somehow “fair-is-fair” for all specialty tags is not…
April is the month when every bass fisherman feels like he or she can hit the water and catch fish. All our lakes are good this month, with bass feeding in shallow water in or near the spawning areas. To experience one of the most interesting shallow-water lakes Georgia has to offer, head to Lake…
By Eddie Hill Three years ago I embarked on a mission to help a young man from my neighborhood that I saw was headed down the wrong road. This young man had plenty of potential and was a very smart young man, but he started hanging with the wrong crowd and was headed for self…
I walked into the living room of our Terrell County home and immediately noticed something amiss “Where’s the deer head?” I asked my wife who sat on the couch folding a load of laundry. “He took it with him,” she responded never looking up from the shirt in her hand. “Took it with him… What…
Lake Nottely is one of the top lakes in north Georgia when it comes to producing big stripers. When compared with the other mountain lakes, it may be the best. This month the fish will be on the move from their wintertime patterns into a spawning attempt and back into a transitional period before they…
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