Posts by Daryl Gay
Possum And The Tramp
So, it’s three o’clock in the morning, and you’re snoring fit to peel paint off a tank. All is blissfully quiet, and in the dream you’re about to squeeze off on a forty-eleven pointer… But then, from somewhere deep inside your consciousness — or maybe UNconsciousness — comes a repetitive, annoying sound that refuses to go away.…
Read MoreA Recipe For… Jackass?
You’d think that with all the cookbooks on my shelf, at least one of them would have a single recipe for the items I’m hunting. I mean, I’ve got DU, L.L. Bean, a half-dozen by Justin Wilson and other assorted Cajuns, church cookbooks from yer ma and grandma… But nothing! Maybe my faithful readers can help…
Read MoreDuck Conservation Society, FFA Students Team Up To Help Georgia Wood Ducks
The talk around the fish-supper table rambled from the one that got away to the comeback of the beaver and eventually wound up with a plan to help out Georgia’s waterfowl population. Wood ducks are glad it did. Back in 1999, David Beecher, of Lyons, and a group of friends were discussing how the beaver…
Read MoreJuly Heat Brings Tarpon, Big Blacktip Sharks
It is 10:25 a.m., and a brass-bright sun has already pushed temperatures into the 90s. The reflection off the water 3 miles out into the Atlantic off Richmond Hill makes it hard on the eyes and, if not for the polarized glasses, unbearable. This is to be the first 100-degree day of 2009, but who…
Read MoreWoman Killed By Alligator In Georgia’s First Recorded Fatal Attack
An elderly Canadian woman was attacked and killed by an 8-foot alligator on Skidaway Island Friday, Oct. 5, the first documented fatality by a gator in Georgia. The body of Gwen Williams, 83, was found the following day in a lagoon at The Landings, a gated community on Skidaway, east of Savannah. Williams was house-sitting…
Read MoreFalling From Deer Stand: Club’s Buddy System Saves Life
The ladder stand was lashed onto a pine in a new hot spot as the 2006 whitetail season wound down, and the excited hunter had only a few last-minute items on his to-do list before easing out of the area. He climbed to the top platform with an adjustable saw, intent on pruning away a…
Read MoreAdventures With Alligator Trapper Jack Douglas
Perhaps only if you’ve been there can you appreciate the dank, damp darkness of a river swamp in the first gray mists of morning. On the banks of the Ogeechee River near Savannah, all is black, or nearly so, with indistinct shapes melding into a swirling gloom. The only sounds are the lapping waves of…
Read MorePhilosophy Of A Bream
Spraying water sparkled down each side of the pointed bow of the plywood boat, meticulously built and triple-coated in olive green paint in our backyard, as it cruised up the Ocmulgee River. Just a couple of miles and we’d go by a big island on the right, then swing back around and enter behind it…
Read MoreStringer Full Of Altamaha River Bream
This is not supposed to be happening. There is a steady wind blowing 15 to 20 miles per hour out of the northeast; the temperature at 8:30 a.m. is in the very low 60s, clouds low, dark and threatening; the Altamaha River reading at Jesup is a little over two feet lower than what we…
Read MoreHugh Gillis PFA Loaded With Bedding Bream In May
In its infancy, the Hugh M. Gillis Public Fishing Area (PFA) in Laurens County was favorably compared to its neighboring PFA in Dodge County, but as it entered its third year of operation in 2006, Gillis PFA showed definite signs of making a name for itself. If you’re looking for a fat mess of fine-eating…
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