Posts by Brad Gill
Seminar Schedule For 2017 Outdoor Blast
Known as the No. 1 firearms legal defense program in the nation, U.S. Law Shield will be hosting a very special 90-minute seminar—with lots of question-and-answer time—on Saturday, July 29 GON’s Outdoor Blast. That seminar will begin at 3 p.m. If you are unclear on where you can carry a firearm or handgun with a…
Read MoreNew Tracts Offer Some Public Hunting
Since September 2015, DNR has purchased 32,000 acres, and all those properties are included in the WMA system and will be open for hunting this fall. While some of these tracts had been leased for hunting for years and are now being purchased, other properties are brand-new hunting tracts. The ticket price for the new…
Read MoreGON Youth Shoot-Out Kicks Off Outdoor Blast
GON’s Youth Big-Buck Shoot-Out will round off an action-packed first day of the Outdoor Blast on Friday, July 28. Metro Atlanta’s only deer hunting show will once again be hosted at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth July 28-30. Each week of deer season, the youth who enters the highest-scoring buck wins a weekly prize and earns a…
Read MoreAdventure Outdoors Offering Two Blast Bargains
The GON Outdoor Blast is excited to announce that Adventure Outdoors is joining the 2017 Blast Bargains campaign during the show. Blast Bargains is a special part of the three-day Outdoor Blast—we’re bringing pre-season deals back to hunting shows. Outdoor Blast vendors will be offering items at special prices, so sportsmen can find bargains while shopping…
Read MoreJackson Angler Wins $5,000 In Berry’s Hawg Pot
There’s still $14,000 worth of largemouth bass swimming around Lake Jackson right now. Sound too good to be true? Larry Cason, of Newborn, will tell you it’s true. Less than two weeks ago, he found himself $5,000 richer after catching a Lake Jackson bucketmouth. It’s been about a dozen years since Bobby Berry began what is called the “Hawg Pot”…
Read MoreMore Doe Days, WMA Changes Proposed
WRD has released proposed hunting regulations for the next two hunting seasons, and they are asking the public to make comments on them. Changes includes more either-sex deer-hunting days and a number of changes on WMAs. Three public hearings will be held April 11-13, and hunters may also comment electronically through Survey Monkey. “The purpose of hunting regulations is…
Read MoreSlab Crappie From Illinois Turning Southern Heads
A black crappie caught at Lake Kinkaid in Illinois earlier this week by Ryan Povolish has some Georgia slab hunters turning their heads. The slab weighed 4-lbs., 8.8-ozs. and is a pending state record for the midwestern state. “You fish all your life just to see a fish of that caliber,” said Rusty Parker, a veteran crappie angler from Lake…
Read MoreOconee Linesides At The Dam
As the big schools of Lake Oconee stripers and hybrids race to the dam this month in an effort to spawn, anglers will be waiting on them in boats with suspended bass minnows dangling below their fiberglass hulls. Oconee is a lake where water generation moves both ways, which means linesides don’t only go up…
Read MoreBoy Catches 50 Pound Oconee Flathead
Ten-year-old Tucker Waits, of Social Circle, put a 50.3-lb. Lake Oconee flathead catfish in the boat after a five-minute battle on rod-and-reel. Tucker was fishing with his dad, TJ, and Charlie Alexander, also from Social Circle, on Saturday, March 4 in the first Middle Georgia Catfish Anglers tournament of the year. “It was 8:30 a.m., and we were…
Read MoreLatest Georgia Coyote Attack Happens In Metro Atlanta
The latest coyote attack to take place in Georgia happened earlier this week as a Roswell jogger was out for his morning run. “It was 6:20 in the morning, it was still pretty dark out,” said Bill Goff, a resident in the area of Plantation Way and Lake Charles Drive in the north Atlanta suburbs. The coyote attacked…
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