Posts by GON Staff
Lake Blue Ridge Fishing Report – August 2024
Blue Ridge: Level: 0.6 feet below 1686. Temp: 84-86 degrees. Clarity: Clear. Bass: Eric Welch, of Welch’s Guide Service, reports, “Fishing has been fair, but it’s been hot. There has been a little topwater action in the mornings. I like throwing a Pop-R and a Whopper Plopper. I will spend a couple of hours on the main…
Read MoreLake Seminole Fishing Report – August 2024
Seminole: Level: 0.4 feet below 77.5. Temp: 85-90 degrees. Clarity: The Flint and Chattahoochee river arms are slightly stained, and Spring Creek is clear. Bass: Guide Paul Tyre, with Lake Seminole Fishing Adventures, reports, “The bass fishing on Lake Seminole for July has been very good. The topwater action has been exciting, and we expect…
Read MoreStealth Cam Joins GON Youth Big-Buck Contest As Weekly Prize Sponsor
The GON Youth Big-Buck Contest is back for the 2024-2025 Georgia deer season, and in addition to a grand-prize $3,000 shopping spree at Adventure Outdoors and a weekend hunt at Woods-N-Water for the Shoot-Out winner, the best-scoring buck each week of deer season will earn a prize package that includes a trail camera from new…
Read MoreGeorgia Native Vincent Hancock Wins Historic Olympic Gold
Eatonton native Vincent Hancock has been in the pages of GON since he was a teen shotgun phenom more than two decades ago when GON sponsored and followed the emerging Lake Oconee Shotgun Team. Now 35 years old, Vincent just won an unprecedented fourth Olympic gold medal in Men’s Skeet at the 2024 Paris games.…
Read MoreGON August Issue 2024
Vol. 38, No. 8 The No. 2 deer of the season in The Fab 40 is Austin Hill’s DeKalb County bow-buck. See all the Fab 40 bucks in the August issue of GON magazine. Photo by Brad Gill August 2024 Magazine Flipbook Edition August Feature Articles No hindsight ip unit displayed. Deer Hunting From…
Read More36th Season Of Truck-Buck, $75,000+ In Prizes! Subscribe To GON
It happened again last season… a longtime GON subscriber killed a huge buck that would have won a Truck-Buck week, only to find out his subscription had expired. Renew now! Truck-Buck is back for the 36th straight year—a testament to the GON community and the sponsors who again stepped up to provide Georgia deer hunters…
Read MoreConservation Law Enforcement Corner – August 2024
Camden County: Several Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in Georgia have special antler restrictions. One of those WMAs with quality-buck antler minimums is the relatively new 27,000-acre Ceylon WMA in southeast Georgia south of Brunswick. Firearms deer hunting at Ceylon is by quota only, and a buck is only legal if it has four points on…
Read MoreGeorgia’s Great Flood Of 1994
The year was 1994, and folks in middle and south Georgia still talk about it. Tropical Storm Alberto stalled over Georgia, dumping incredible amounts of rain and causing destructive flooding. Here are a few examples of what the state looked like 30 years ago after the flood hit. Lake Blackshear: Nowhere did sportsmen see the…
Read MoreWhen Barracudas Attack
You never know what you’re going to catch when you head out into the magical waters of the Georgia coast… and apparently you never know how you’re going to catch it either. You’ve heard of fish jumping in the boat, right? Now a big, tasty red snapper would be welcomed, but there are some fish…
Read More11 1/2-lb. Bass Bought By Tournament Anglers
Don’t mess with fishermen—especially the bass tournament crowd. A pair of anglers in a July 12, 2014 bass club tournament at Banks Lake bought an 11 1/2-lb. bass and presented it for the weigh-in. They might have even gotten away with it, but apparently the agreed-upon price for the fish changed when the pair didn’t…
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