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Fishing
For most trout anglers, catching colorful little fish on the rushing waters of the Toccoa River tailwater is enough to constitute a fine day of fishing. For others, it’s just not enough. The deep holes, cold water and plentiful forage below Blue Ridge Dam combine to create optimal conditions for growing monstrous trout, and a…
On August 24, Chris Woodruff of Lawrenceville was target shooting with his bow getting ready for archery season when a bizarre accident occurred. “I drew, aimed and released an arrow and heard a weird ‘piiinnnng,’” said Chris. “I couldn’t see my arrow in the target, and my best friend standing there said, ‘The arrow is…
Only one big lake in Georgia offers undeveloped shorelines, lots of largemouth and spotted bass and relatively peaceful fishing. Lake Russell has everything a bass fisherman could want, and October is one of the best months to take advantage of a great shallow bite there. Russell is a 26,650-acre U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake…
Whether you own or lease your deer-hunting property, chances are good that you do not have enough food-plot acreage to attract and raise a high-quality deer herd for maximum recreational enjoyment year after year. Not having the time, money or equipment is one thing, but not having suitable sites is another. Most of the logical…
Bob Stanley, of McRae, was mowing fire lanes on his Telfair County hunting property near the town of Workmore when he killed a 5-foot eastern diamondback rattlesnake. “When he killed it, he took it to the barn and hung it up,” wrote Elleen, Bob’s wife, in an e-mail to GON. “The next morning he went…
This longnose gar weighed 30-lbs., 4-ozs. on certified scales and measured a whopping 56- inches long. It’s working its way through the Wildlife Resource Division’s certification process as a new Georgia state record. Chad Leonard of Nashville was catfishing on Sept. 5 along the banks of the Alapaha River near Willacoochee. He was casting a…
Murphy looked on in desperation as the scene unfolded before him with terrifying speed. Wounded, Attila the black bear was in mid-charge, and the targets of his aggression were Charles Lee and his teenage son Charlie. The two bowhunters were lying in a heap at the edge of a pine thicket. No longer the focus…
Hunters reported that opening weekend of bow season was about normal — hot and humid. Most folks GON spoke with still had no blood on their arrows. However, as is always the case, several early season bucks were taken. By Sept. 18, seven Pope & Young-class bucks had been arrowed. In general, soft and hard…
Shane Wilson of Cataula had never been drawn for a gator tag before. Neither had two of the other three hunters who launched two boats from the Camper’s Haven boat ramp on Lake Blackshear Sept. 12. It’s a good thing at least one of the four, Randy Pounds of Butler, had some experience gator hunting,…
A special day brought hosts Dave Willoughby and J.D. Shumpert, volunteers and 15 kids and their dads to a Walton County dove field on Sept. 13. The occasion was the annual David D. Willoughby Memorial SEEDS Dove Shoot, which honors a young man who passed away in 2007 whose passion for the dove field and…
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