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Bartletts Ferry: Level: Full pool. Temp: 66-71 degrees. Clarity: Stained. Bass: Good. Dennis Hudson said he was expecting his Saturday, April 16, tournament to be on fire, but the weather messed things up a bit. It took a little more than 15 pounds to win. The fish are up on the banks and in all…
Allatoona: Level: Full pool. Temp: 70 degrees. Clarity: Stained and full of trash on the north end; slight stain mid lake; clear on the south end. Bass: Very good. Matt Driver reports, “May is one of my favorite times on Allatoona. This month is topwater month for sure. Bass are postspawn and are starting to…
Legislators passed House Bill 277, “The Baiting Bill,” but they did little to silence the divide and emotional debate among hunters over the issue. HB 277 legalizes baiting for deer in the Southern Zone while keeping it illegal to hunt deer within 200 yards of bait in the Northern Zone. HB 277 will become law…
Shooting-up crappie can be the quickest and easiest way to fill a limit. Following the spawn, when the fish pack-in under docks like canned sardines, they are hungry. Getting a bait into the deepest, darkest recesses beneath a dock is the only thing standing between the angler and a mess of crappie. And if you’re…
Close your eyes for a second and think back to when you were a kid. Picture yourself fishing with your dad, or maybe it was your grandfather or grandmother. Chances are the first fish you ever caught was a bream. Burned in many anglers’ minds are fishing trips with Grandaddy. Now, each time you lay…
As is typical for turkey season in Georgia, opening weekend saw a flurry of activity by hunters and plenty of once vocal birds slung over shoulders not long after fly-down time. Also typical is hunting pressure that wanes as the weekends pass — just as more and more hens are going to nest earlier in…
Lake Seminole has long been known as one of the best bass fishing lakes in the country, not just for quantities of fish, but also huge tournament bags. During the postspawn feed-up on Lake Seminole, you can bet you’re going to need an average of more than 6 pounds per fish just to be in…
If you’ve seen a big tawny cat in the Georgia woods, chances are it wasn’t an eastern cougar, especially considering the recent announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that the animal is extinct. Eastern cougar, western cougar or Florida panther, GON is still seeking evidence of big, long-tailed cats in Georgia. The…
Manabu Kurita says landing a world-record bass in his native Japan two years ago hasn’t changed his life drastically — but it has certainly changed his life. “In Japan, for me, it isn’t much different at all,” the 34-year-old auto service worker said through an interpreter during a recent visit to Georgia. “But the…
It’s official. Following six years of study, biologists with DNR have concluded that brown trout are reproducing in numbers significant enough to warrant a permanent cessation of brown trout stocking in the Chattahoochee River tailrace below Buford Dam. DNR Fisheries Biologist Patrick O’Rouke said they’ve finished crunching all the numbers from a study that began…
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