Youth Big-Buck Contest Week 16 Results 2022-23

Week 16 Results (Dec. 24-30) Hunter, County, Score No hindsight ip unit displayed. 1. Ashton Yoder, Dooly, 101 6/8 No hindsight ip unit displayed. 2. AvaGail Wiggins, Webster, 99 6/8 3. Braxton Wilson, Jasper, 99 0/8 4. Haddon Maloy (b), Morgan, 95 1/8 5. Rhett Smith, Dooly, 78 4/8 Key: (b) bow Return to Main…

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High School Students Make Dirt Hole Sets For Coyotes

I recently excepted an invite to spend 90 minutes with some high-school students at St. John Bosco Academy in Cumming. The subject was one of my favorites: coyote trapping. You know you love it when there’s no notes or outline needed to prepare. Just be there, run my mouth about a God-given passion and show…

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Doe Days Jump For Most Counties In WRD Proposed Hunting Regs

One of WRD’s biggest take aways from January’s public meetings to determine hunting regulations for the next two hunting seasons appeared to be that hunters wanted more opportunity to harvest does. As a result, a large majority of hunters could see an earlier return of doe days that would begin on the opening day of…

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GON’s Trophy Room – April 2023

Since Georgia Outdoor News magazine started in 1987, we have continuously enjoyed sharing the accomplishments of others. Some months we’ll receive hundreds of pictures of happy hunters and anglers every year who just want to share their accomplishments. We are truly blessed that so many loyal Georgians think enough of GON to share with us about what they’ve accomplished.…

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Big Sacks For ABA March 25 Tournament on Sinclair

  Georgia B.A.S.S. Nation Winners Find Hartwell Bass Deep The Georgia B.A.S.S. Nation held its high school and middle school tournaments on Lake Hartwell on March 18, and the top participants had no problem with catching fish. The Irwin County duo of Peyton Dunn and Gavin Guy was the top high-school team with a five-fish…

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70 Pound Flathead On 6-lb. Test Sets New Clarks Hill Record

Michael Dollar, of Raysville, said that flathead catfish in the 70-lb. variety in Clarks Hill aren’t necessarily rare, but catching one on a rod and reel isn’t something you hear much about. Taking that one step further, boating one after an hour-long fight using an ultralight crappie fishing setup using just 6-lb. line may have…

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Andrews Lake Flathead Catfish Goes 44 Pounds, Sets New Record

Nicholas Leeson has a new good-luck charm he will be keeping in his back pocket—or at least in the back of the boat—when he fishes the remaining seven catfish tournaments with the M&J Catfish War  crew. It was in this tournament trail’s latest event, held on Andrews Lake on the Chattahoochee River, when he boated…

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Leave Nothing In The Tank

I was running my trap line one morning recently when the phone rang.  “Ready to come get this stuff?” my buddy asked. I whirled around and five minutes later I was standing in a barn drooling over a workbench full of trapping gear. My friend’s dad passed away some months back, and he knew I…

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GON’s Trophy Room – March 2023

Since Georgia Outdoor News magazine started in 1987, we have continuously enjoyed sharing the accomplishments of others. Some months we’ll receive hundreds of pictures of happy hunters and anglers every year who just want to share their accomplishments. We are truly blessed that so many loyal Georgians think enough of GON to share with us about what they’ve accomplished.…

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Dog-Proof Traps Make Raccoon Trapping Simple

I like simple.  When dog-proof traps for raccoons hit the market not too many years ago, I remember thinking I was going to need a few dozen of those things in my trapping bag. I’ve played with these traps for a few years now, and for me, they are by far the most effective way…

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