Posts by Daryl Gay
You Won’t Believe It!
Mythical creatures and legends abound in outdoor lore, especially among hunters, fishermen and other assorted lunatics. When you stop and think about it, it’s fairly amazing what we’ll allow ourselves to believe. Or almost believe. Or refuse to admit that we really do believe. There’s big money in myths; entire industries have been built around…
Read MoreTantalizing Targets
Misty fog swirls, cool, damp and silent, among the hardwoods, vying to keep the sun at bay in the first hour of opening morning. Here and there come splotches and diagonal beams of brilliance as darkness loses out to the dawn. You know. As a whitetail hunter, you’ve been there. And you just know. The…
Read MoreDon’t Get Choked Up!
Progress? I guess. But it seemed simpler back in the day: 26 improved, 28 modified, 30 full. (If you don’t have a clue what we’re talking about here, then you probably meant to pick up “Good Housekeeping” instead of GON. Make the switch now or run the risk of becoming slightly educated about shotguns.) Over…
Read MoreJake And The Hawgleg
If there’s one thing I’m a proud possessor of, it’s a smeller. Especially considering the fact that I once almost lost it. If you’ll take a close look at the Back Page’s top right tiny photo—I wanted it larger but editors thought your chillun may run screaming in terror should they get a glimpse—you can…
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…
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