Posts by Daryl Kirby
15 Pound Georgia Bass Caught And Released
Switching to another lake wasn’t looking like the right call for the two anglers, who started the morning of June 29, 2002 fishing a small Dodge County lake and had caught about 25 bass between one and four pounds. Around 1 p.m. Brin Meredith of Atlanta and Hal Harris of Macon decided to try a…
Read MoreBonnie Harrison’s 160-inch Hall County Buck
As the 2001 Georgia deer season began, the landscape sure had changed along the Gwinnett and Hall County line where 70-year-old Bonnie Harrison had lived for more than 25 years. What was once sure-enough Georgia countryside — mostly small farms, pastureland, and woods — is now cut by huge neighborhoods, shopping centers, and busy roads…
Read MoreThe Drop-Shot Rig
Just when you thought bass anglers had run out of anything new in their bag of fish-catching tricks, along comes a technique that is producing bass like crazy and has money-fishermen scrambling to master its methods. The rig — a hook tied up the line with a weight at the bottom — is rather simple,…
Read MoreShort-Pocket Docks: Danny White Talks June Bassing On Lake Sinclair
Like an aging prom queen, as a reservoir matures it goes through changes… and some aren’t so pretty. Some are subtle and take years to impact fishing patterns. Other changes occur almost overnight. The anglers who know a lake best — that proverbial “like-the-back-of-your-hand” knowledge — are the ones who can catch fish when the…
Read MoreLake Russell Postspawn Bass
Intimidating, daunting, tough… all words that have been used to describe bass fishing on Lake Russell, usually by an angler who has never fished the timber-filled, clear water of the Savannah River reservoir. Beautiful, fishy-looking and awesome… words used by others to describe the bass fishing at Russell, especially during the postspawn period in May.…
Read MoreThe Ricky Joe Bishop Story
There had to be a grin under Ricky Joe Bishop’s camo face mask. The big gobbler was committed, and Ricky’s calling was sounding sweet. The bird was sounding off each time the slate call put out those tantalizing clucks, yelps and purrs. This old bird was convinced a sultry hen was calling his name. Ricky has…
Read MoreQuality Sinclair Bass In March
Sometimes a graph adds more frustration to a bass-fishing situation than it does to help the cause. Such was the case for Jim Windham and I on Lake Sinclair last week. “There’s a pile of fish down there,” Jim said as his boat drifted over the point we’d just pulled crankbaits across. The graph was…
Read MoreTime To Plant Cool-Season Money Plots
The food-plot craze is well entrenched among Georgia deer hunters. The idea of improving the nutrition available to your land’s wildlife, while also dramatically improving your chances of putting venison on the ground, has driven more and more hunters to take the food-plot plunge. Farmers we are not, but you wouldn’t know that by the…
Read MoreThe Banks Farm Booner
For 10 minutes the buck was in sight around Jeff Banks’ deer stand. The first day of gun season, and evening hunt, and Jeff was about to shoot a buck—and that’s saying something. This is a man who has already killed and passed up bucks that would gross near 150. Pulling the trigger on a…
Read MoreLake Lanier Spotted Bass Busting Topwater All Summer Long
All those experts who told you topwater is an early-morning-only pattern, they were wrong. So were the guys who said that in the summer once the sun comes out you have to shake a worm in 40 feet of water to tempt bass. Things have changed on Georgia’s best spotted bass lake. Something started happening…
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