Posts by Brad Gill
Tournament Reports September 2011
Many tournament trails are dormant in August, but several trails kept right on fishing. The most impressive tournament results that Georgia anglers would likely be interested in came from the July 31 Media Bass event at Lake Seminole. Drew Benton and Michael Smith weighed in five fish that went 27.41 pounds. “They located a school…
Read MoreWesley Jones Outdoor Show Inspires
Wesley Jones, of Conyers, was just 9 years old in 1987 when he fell 20 feet from a homemade zip line made of rope. In an instant, he went from being a carefree kid to breaking his neck and will live the remainder of his life in a wheelchair as a quadriplegic. The moment was…
Read MoreSplit Part 2
The black coyote broke the skin on the buck’s neck, but he couldn’t hang on but a split second. The younger gray female coyote that had been tailing the black yote had already retreated, knowing the buck was much too big to handle. The old male black coyote was nearly blind and was living out…
Read MoreGeorgia’s Best Bow-Bucks Of 2010-2011 Season
GON’s Georgia’s Best Bow Bucks rankings continue to grow. Last season marked the third-best year for Pope & Young class bucks. In 2010, 61 hunters took a buck worthy of GON’s rankings, bringing Georgia’s total to 782 bucks. Four counties — Calhoun, Carroll, Crawford and Effingham — recorded their first bucks on this…
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Dec. 24, 2010: As the heavy Blazer powered into the sharp curve, the driver put all his weight on the brakes… but it was too late. Just as the Blazer skidded into the other lane, its front bumper smashed into the driver’s side door of an oncoming car. On a still, cold night, the collision…
Read MoreWoodlawn Elementary Takes First Place at NASP Nationals
The archery team at Woodlawn Elementary School in Chatsworth was top dog at the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) National Tournament in Louisville, Ky. in May. Woodlawn finished with a team score of 3,244, the highest ever by a Georgia school competing at NASP nationals. Woodlawn also won the NASP World Championship in…
Read MoreDays GON By April 2011
Each month we turn back the clock to see what was being reported in the pages of GON, both 20 and 10 years ago. Here’s what was happening. 20 Years Ago: April 1991 • Georgia’s Best Bass Lakes: Using WRD Fisheries electroshocking data, GON ranked the best bass lakes in Georgia. We created charts so anglers could…
Read MoreIs This Georgia Canine Part Wolf?
Marty and Glad Simmons, of Clarkesville, were just hoping for a few nice shots of some deer on their trail camera, which is located several hundred yards from their Habersham County home. However, when they had a photo of a large dog standing on a log, which appeared not to be a coyote, residents began…
Read MoreTournament Reports April 2011
Several Georgia kids are getting plugged into the tournament game at an early age. The Fishers of Men Legacy trail offers an excellent platform for a parent and their child to compete in a bass tournament without all the stress that sometimes accompanies higher profile bass tournaments. These adult/child tournaments are taking place in several…
Read MoreBucks Lock Antlers, Drown In Pond
It wasn’t the news Jay Crouch, of Eatonton, wanted to hear on a December afternoon. His wife’s grandmother called to say there appeared to be a deer floating in her 3-acre pond, which sits on property where Jay and his son, Ethan, 10, hunt. In fact, they’d been hunting a big one all year. “I…
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