Posts by Daryl Gay
Jonboat Squirrels
It’s just after eight of the a.m. and a typical gray December morning. Well maybe just a little more gray than usual. A silent, shooting mist shrouds the Oconee River as the battered old Ouchita flatbottom glides downstream without a whisper. The river gurgles and laps around the two of us, all alone on the…
Read MoreWheeler County River Bottom Giant
Early morning mist rose serenely from the swampy bottomland along the Oconee River as David Frost’s boots squished and padded softly through the dark, rich Wheeler County mud. He was going through the motions of his usual still-hunting methods, unaware that within seconds, a three-year crusade for the animal of a lifetime would begin… or…
Read MoreLaurens County Buck From 1988
Phillip Flanders, of Adrian, has taken what is easily one of the best bucks to come out of Laurens County in some time. He had seen this deer the day before, but he couldn’t get a shot. So the next morning, he had moved his stand down into the bottom where the deer were passing.…
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