Posts by Brad Gill
Deer Dogs In The Morning, Deer Stands In The Afternoon
The cold air had my eyes just about in tears as Martin Johnson and I rolled down a wet four-wheeler trail straight for the Savannah River swamp in Screven County. Just off the road sat a very relaxed Mike Dotschay of Sylvania. He was leaned back on his four-wheeler with his back against a metal…
Read MoreStory Of “Big Red,” A Jasper County Boone & Crockett Buck
Jasper County strikes again. Now when you look at GON‘s County-by-County listings each October you’ll see that the best five Jasper County deer listed are Boone & Crocketts! That’s getting right up there with the south Georgia powerhouses like Macon and Worth counties. However, these Jasper County Booners are all from the 1950s and 1960s…
Read MoreLake Oconee March Bass
This month you can bury those jigging spoons back down into your tackle box and start throwing something a little more horizontal. In mid February, Lake Oconee’s water temperature was still in the upper 40s, but it was slowly warming. Some fish had already begun to move shallow around wood cover and rock. As we…
Read MoreSeptember Redfish In The Georgia Marsh — Canoe Style
There’s a “new” kind of fishing fever that’s beginning to accelerate off the Georgia coast, and it makes fishing a whole lot simpler. For hundreds of years, anglers have been setting their hooks on a variety of fish while fishing from a canoe. However, it has just been in the last several years that some modern-day anglers are beginning to see the canoe as…
Read MoreFloat For Squirrels
Imagine a slow drift in a camouflaged canoe two months from now. The leaves are just starting to turn gold and auburn. There’s a slight and somewhat chilly breeze across the back of your neck. Your trusty 12-gauge is strategically laid in the bottom of the canoe, along with a box of high-brass No. 6s.…
Read MoreLake Jackson Bass On The February Rocks
If a big bucketmouth in the boat is on your agenda this spring, let me get you started a few weeks early — and you’ll barely have to leave Atlanta to try and catch one. Located in portions of Butts, Jasper and Newton counties, Lake Jackson is a traditional big-fish lake in February. You don’t…
Read MoreAvoid The Deer-Hunting Blues: Learn To Adapt
Before picking a tree to climb opening morning, it may be advantageous to first think about all the changes a piece of hunting property can go through. Recent clearcuts should be a little thicker while older ones may be more open. Was timber harvested? Maybe the oak branches are heavy with acorns — maybe they’re…
Read MoreShoot Docks For Sinclair Postspawn Crappie
There’s plenty of different techniques you can use to load up a stringer slap full of crappie — corked minnows, tight-lining, trolling, jigs, jigging spoons and probably even a few more that I haven’t tried. Last month on Lake Sinclair I got to learn a different and very enjoyable crappie-fishing technique — shooting docks. Shooting…
Read MoreBlackshear’s Spring Bassin’
It was just after 8:00 a.m. and I had just made my fourth cast of the morning. My medium-sized crankbait landed right where I wanted it to, just beyond an underwater spring that had been attracting fish as of late. I gave my reel seven or eight good cranks trying to get my bait down…
Read MoreFlats Patterns For Clarks Hill April Bass
Springtime is just a beautiful time ti be in the Peach State. The dogwoods are blooming, the turkeys are gobbling an< on Clarks Hill the blueback-herring spawn is just days away. What this translate; into for the bass angler is that big, aggressive largemouth bass will be following these delectable little baitfish to the spawning…
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