Posts by Brad Bailey
Higher Level Hunter Education In Georgia
For the first time, a first-year instructor, Eric Massey of Gainesville has been named the Volunteer Hunter Education Instructor of the Year by DNR Law Enforcement. The award is presented to the volunteer who goes above and beyond the ordinary in teaching and promoting the hunter education training program. “We had some outstanding nominees,” said…
Read MoreFlip Docks, Spoon For Oconee December Bass
Before you go bass fishing at Lake Oconee in December, you have a shallow-water, deep-water decision to make. For wintertime bass, Oconee angler Kenny Holloway depends on two different lures in two completely different areas of the lake: either a jig ʼn pig in super-shallow structure or a jigging spoon on deep drops. Both baits,…
Read MoreConservation Law Enforcement Corner – August 2003
Editor’s Note: The following information was taken from DNR Law Enforcement incident reports. On Friday, November 1, 2002 at about 11:30 p.m., Cpl. Jim Bradfield was notified by telephone by the Troup County Sheriff’s Department that Cpl. Brent Railey was working a night-hunting complaint on Hwy 18 at Dennis Smith Road and that he required…
Read MoreLake Horton’s Offshore Grassbeds For Split-Shot Bass
The bass hit the junebug split-shot Trick Worm in about 6 feet of water, and when Mike Meason set the hook the fish came straight up out of the water like a Polaris missile. The 4-pounder cleared the surface by at least a foot, then splashed back into the water broadside, nearly on its back.…
Read MoreRun And Gun For West Point Deep-Shade Crappie
Sensing some slight, imperceptible twitch in his line, Joel set the hook and moments later a crappie skidded across the surface from under the dock toward the boat. “I think that’s 10 in a row,” he said. I had caught zero, and as far as I could tell, had not had a bite. Joel fired…
Read MoreBowhunting For Gobblers
Trevor McEntyre, of Plainville, is a bowhunter. As of February, 2003, he has taken 14 of the 27 big-game animals of North America with his bow, including grizzly bear, musk ox, both black and brown bear, bighorn sheep, antelope, Dall sheep — and an elk that scored 300 Pope & Young points. He has also traveled…
Read MoreLake Blue Ridge Walleye
If you want to catch walleye in Georgia, the place you need to go is Lake Blue Ridge. There are walleye in other north Georgia lakes, of course, and some good ones. The state record fish at 11-lbs. 6-ozs. was caught in Lake Russell. The previous record of 11 pounds even was caught from Lake…
Read MoreLinesides Stacked In The Georgia Tailraces
Beginning in March, white bass, hybrids and stripers begin their spring migration out of many of Georgia’s reservoirs and up the tributary rivers. Places like Dyers Pasture on the Oconee River above Lake Oconee, the Chattahoo-chee above Lanier around Lula, and Franklin Shoals on the Chattahoochee above Lake West Point are legendary for the phenomenal…
Read MoreTops For Georgia Trout
Good news for Georgia trout fishermen! There are nearly 1.2 million trout swimming in state hatchery runs awaiting the 2003 trout season. “It is looking very good,” said Hal Chestnutt, superintendent of the Lake Burton Hatchery. “We have had a good growing season and have produced 80,000 more trout above the proposed numbers. All the…
Read MoreGiant Bass Fishing With Sam Taylor
The bass was so big that when it got hung up in the submerged tree limbs, Sam jumped into the lake to get the fish. On March 16, 2002, Sam Taylor, of Box Springs, was bass fishing in a 14-acre Marion County pond. He had cast a 4-inch watermelon seed Gambler tube worm into a…
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