Posts by Daryl Gay
South Georgia Coon Hunt Where It’s All About The Dogs
Andy Bedgood is thinking. And thinking. You can almost see the mental wheels turning… Guess I hadn’t realized the complexities of the question before asking, “How many dogs do you have?” “Well,” he soon replied with a rub of whiskers and a signature south Georgia drawl, “Do you mean the ones I have at home…
Read MoreI’m In The Running!
“ATTENTION!” Ladies and gentlemen, and any of you young ’uns old enough to have a vote but not quite sure what to do with it! Your attention, please. I have an announcement to make.” (Pause for effect; deep breath, square shoulders, head up…) “I am formally and desperately seeking the Presidency of these here United…
Read MoreDeer Dogging Still A Long-Standing Tradition
When William Tecumseh Sherman and his minions sashayed to the beaches of Savannah 151 years ago this month, they left behind a wide, scorched swath of Georgia from Atlanta to the sea. Among Sherman’s explicit commands was the following, from Special Field Orders 120: “The army will forage liberally on the country during the march.”…
Read MoreThe 2015 BREAM SPECIAL
For most of us fishermen, drowning crickets and worms for bream is where it all started. And all across Georgia, if you can find a hole of water larger than your living room, you’re apt to come across bluegills, shellcrackers, redbreasts and more in varying populations and combinations. Obviously, some of those areas are better…
Read MoreTroll Now For Sinclair’s Prespawn Slab Crappie
Troy Thiel is attempting to tell me how simple it is to catch crappie trolling on Lake Sinclair. “People make it harder… there’s a fish… than it really has to be. All you need to do… there’s another one…” Being interrupted by slab crappie is not a bad thing, even at the beginning of the…
Read MoreAngry Beaver Interferes With Buck Recovery
Taxidermist Steve Ward knows a big deer when he sees one, and he’s picky when it comes to taking a shot. But as most deer hunters know, recognizing a really big buck takes only a moment. That’s a good thing for Ward, because a moment is all he had to make a trigger-pulling decision the…
Read MoreEvans County PFA Is Back Open For Business
Up-and-coming. Again. Perhaps that is the best way to describe Evans County PFA, one of Georgia’s oldest state-managed public fishing areas—which at the same time is also one of its newest. “This is one of the first public fishing areas the Department of Natural Resources opened up, back in the 1970s, when we first started…
Read MoreA Story Of Rescue As Four Hunters Pulled From Flooding Swamp
It is a frigid, pitch-black two o’clock in the morning as DNR Ranger Micheal Crawley calls instructions across the rolling Ogeechee River, flooded out of its banks and a mile wide in places throughout the dense surrounding swamp. After tense hours of searching, Crawley and a friend, Justin Tanner, have finally located four desperate hunters,…
Read MoreReds & Trout Limits On Georgia’s Lonely Coast
If there’s one thing a fisherman loves, it’s that quiet, tucked-away spot he can escape to all by his lonesome, with no competing boats buzzing by to bother his fish. Well, how about an ocean? The Georgia coastline, and beyond, can provide an overlooked fishing bonanza during the fall and winter months. Hunters are in…
Read MoreA Catch-All Saltwater Surprise Trip
Ever stood on a beach, looked out over the waves and asked, “I wonder what’s really swimming around out there?” Capt. David Newlin can help answer that question. For 34 years, Newlin has been taking fishermen out on both inshore and offshore excursions from Richmond Hill’s Kilkenny Marina, south of Savannah, for the best saltwater…
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