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In late July, Conrad Greene, of Savannah, was working food plots with a couple buddies on their Screven County hunt club near Cooperville. They were checking some fruit trees when Travis Timms, of Savannah, almost stepped on this enormous eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Conrad said the snake didn’t even rattle. It merely lifted its head up…
Did she have to do it in the middle of the dining room? A Pickens County landowner sent in the below incredible trail-camera photo of a doe giving birth this summer to what appears to be a healthy fawn. Trail cameras have changed the game for hunters and wildlife enthusiasts. If you capture something unique…
Imagine a crisp fall morning. With a light wind blowing directly in your face, conditions are just perfect for an October deer hunt. A young, inexperienced hunter sits beside you in a 20-foot tall tower stand as you stare down a narrow strip of clover and chicory. To the left is a beautiful hillside littered…
You’ve read it in these pages over and over, but again — despite the fact that sportsmen are paying the same license fees as always — WMA lands, which are mostly funded by those license fees, are on the chopping block due to budget cuts. This year Georgia’s public-land hunters are looking at about 10,000…
West Point: Level: 0.2 feet below full pool. Temp: High 80s. Clarity: Clear on the main lake; stained up the creeks and up the Chattahoochee. Bass: Fair. Micah Frazier said bass will be holding on deep structure like rock piles and brush on the ledges, roadbeds and humps. Fish hard until you find the bass,…
Weiss: Level: 0.7 feet below full pool. Temp: 89 degrees. Clarity: Lightly stained. Bass: Very good. Guide Warren Barnes reports, “Largemouths and spotted bass are still up on the flats early and are being caught on all types of topwater baits. The best producers are hard baits like the Jackall Bonnie or the Mud Sucker.…
Tobesofkee: Level: 0.6 feet below full pool. Temp: 90-92 degrees. Clarity: Slight stain. Bass: Clayton Batts reports, “Bass fishing has been tough with all the hot weather and boat traffic, and it probably will not get any better next month. The best bite has come during low-light hours and at night. Fish a Spro Hydro…
Sinclair: Level: 0.7 feet below full pool. Temp: High 80s to low 90s. Clarity: Slight stain. Bass: Good. Kim Carver said there’s a good bite for numbers on Sinclair. There’s a buzzbait bite first thing in the morning around grass up the Oconee River. Once the sun gets up, fish docks with a shaky head…
Seminole: Level: 1.1 feet below full pool. Temp: 86 to 92 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Note: The corps is hammering the grass. “Spring Creek has been the target thus far, with grass nearly gone from Sealy’s up. They are spraying it with some type of chemical on airboats, and it works in just a few days.…
Saltwater: Capt. David Newlin reports, “Everything is in the usual late-summer pattern. The small redfish seem to be everywhere. They will hit anything you throw at them. The big redfish can still be found on high tide up in the marsh grass. High tides late in the day with no wind have been really productive.…
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