Posts by Chad Cain
Lake Yonah Largemouth Record
Trent Thomason, of Toccoa, has been going back to Lake Yonah for the past three years trying to catch the record largemouth for the lake. On June 23, he finally accomplished the feat when he landed a 6-lb., 11-oz. bass. Trent said he goes to Yonah every Father’s Day weekend with his dad to fish,…
Read MoreGeorgia BASS Nation High School Champs Eye Kentucky Lake
It’s a rare feat when experience combines with youth to produce the utmost success. That doesn’t mean it never happens. Upcoming high school sophomore Owen Moss and recent high school graduate Spencer Childers, of Pickens County High School in Jasper, recently won the Georgia BASS Nation State Championship at Lake Eufaula. Their next step is Kentucky…
Read MoreBobcat Attacks Woman Who Has To Strangle Cat To Death
DeDe Phillips, a 46-year-old resident of Hart County, had to fight off and strangle a bobcat that lunged at her throat and violently attacked her with its teeth and claws. DeDe said she left her house to take a picture of a new decal she put on her truck when she spotted the cat underneath…
Read MoreCop Breaks Window To Free Bear From Inside Car
On June 19, 2018, a bear in Carnelian Bay, California found itself in a predicament. The bear was locked inside a Subaru Outback. This is actually the second bear-in-an-Outback incident in the last few weeks, the other being in Connecticut. This California bear was most likely after some food, entering the car through an open…
Read MoreNick Mundt’s 3-Yard Shot On Mule Deer
If you’re one of those bowhunters who has trouble judging long-distance yardage, which often results in a miss, there is something you could try. Get closer! Nick Mundt, of Michael Waddell’s Bone Collector, stalked within 3 yards of a mule deer before getting an on-camera shot for Bone Collector TV. Thanks to the amazing footage, the Bone…
Read MoreNew Lake Jackson Spotted Bass Record
Bill Haines, of McDonough, has put himself in the Lake Jackson record books with the largest ever recorded spotted bass at 6-lbs., 0.02-ozs. He caught the new record spot on June 8. Bill spends most every Tuesday and Friday nights at Berry’s Boat Dock Marina participating in the fishing tournaments put on by the marina.…
Read More348 Fish Caught At Youth Fishin’ Rodeo
The Dublin Laurens County Recreation Authority (DLCRA) put on a Youth Fishin’ Rodeo May 5, 2018 at Southern Pines Regional Park, which turned out to be quite a successful day of fishing. “It was a good year this year because we had 28 young ’uns that caught 348 fish,” said Leon Morris, who helps put…
Read MoreMonster Bass Caught At Tired Creek Lake
Sherry Vann, of Valdosta, was one of the first anglers to drop in at the newly opened Tired Creek Lake in Grady County on May 26, 2018. Being there on the second day the lake opened to the public paid off with a monster catch, a 14-lb. largemouth. Sherry and her boyfriend, JT Vickery, hit…
Read MoreHiker Attacked By Coyote In Middle Georgia
Nate Edmonds’ first up-close-and-personal encounter with a coyote proved to be much more exciting than he may have wanted it to be. On Saturday, May 26, 2018, Nate drove out to the Hitchiti Experimental Forest, also known as the Brender-Hitchiti Demonstration Forest. The area is about 5,000 acres of federal land adjacent to Piedmont National…
Read MoreNew Lake Burton Brown Trout Record
Not many people can say they have caught a lake record fish as an experienced angler, but 7-year-old Camden Rinckey can go ahead and check that off his bucket list. His 11-lb., 14-oz. brown trout is now the largest brown ever recorded from Lake Burton. Camden was up before the crack of dawn with his…
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