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Allatoona: Level: 4.2 feet below full pool. Temp: 58 degrees. Clarity: Clear to stained. Bass: Guide Mike Bucca reports, “Fishing is great right now and will only get better as the weather gets colder. Turnover has finished, and the fish are starting to concentrate more and more. The best two tactics going right now are…
Ricky Aaron and his son, Skip, both from Conyers, will never forget what happened in the Putnam County deer woods on Friday, Nov. 6. They were doing some mid-morning scouting on their 485-acre lease when Skip found an old well and could hear something splashing at the bottom of it. “We knew it was an…
Hunting isn’t just about the killing — but it sure is fun trying everything in your power to get in position to let an arrow fly. Just ask Jake Meyer. Jake, 14, of Neptune Beach, Fla. was the 2008 SEEDS Big-Buck Contest winner. He won the grand prize big-game hunt to Wyoming, where he spent…
It was a remarkable archery season for black bears in north Georgia, and the gun opener brought in a flood of bear reports to the GON office. Judging from those reports from hunters across the state, this year’s black-bear harvest is on track to be off the charts. Here are two of the most impressive…
At Oconee the shad are moving into the pockets, and the bass follow and feed aggressively. If you are a bass fisherman, you have to love November. The weather is usually decent for fishing, the bass are shallow and feeding, and there are few other fishermen and pleasure boaters on the water. All that leads…
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is set to pull the plug on Lake Blue Ridge during the late summer of 2010. Plans call for the lake to be drawn down to more than 60 feet below full pool. TVA officials recently announced the final project plans for the deep-water drawdown necessary to repair and reinforce…
A few yards off a deer trail in the privet thicket, Jamie Sikes bent to inspect his doe in the beam of his headlamp. It was a fine kill; a mature animal that would make for many good meals. “We’re gonna eat good this weekend!” he said to his hunting buddy Clark Dickerson, who stood a…
The day was forecasted to be windy, chilly and rainy with a chance of thunderstorms. It wasn’t likely to be very comfortable, but the spirits and excitement ran high on the dock at Lake Lanier’s Van Pugh Park on Saturday morning, Oct. 10. Thirty-one kids, along with parents, grandparents and others lined up before sunrise…
My alarm clock sounded at 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 4 last season. The weather man called for a southeast wind and temperatures in the low 50s. This was perfect for the spot I had chosen to hunt. I could approach the bedding area from the northwest and quietly slip up a cypress tree in my…
Winder hunter Richard B. Rupert, 68, died Oct. 10 after being bit on his calf by a rattlesnake, according to Oglethorpe County Deputy Coroner Howard Sanders. Rupert, his son and his 12-year-old grandson were hunting a tract of land near Thaxton Wynne Road in Lexington. Upon arriving at their hunting property just before daylight, the…
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