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Hike To Toccoa River Swinging Bridge

With the reopening of so many trails and access points I decided to break away from home the last weekend in May for a flash trip to north Georgia. The weather guessers on TV said the chance of rain was low and the temperatures weren’t supposed to be brutal, so I grabbed the tent and…

Pandemics, Governors, And Online Deer Records

The past two months were interesting. A tip of the cap to GON’s staff—there’s just seven of them—who did what was asked and needed. Like lots of small businesses, we knew it would take extraordinary effort during an extraordinary time, and it is because of them you are reading the June 2020 issue of Georgia…

Turkey Triple In Peach County

By Adam Reas This story starts way before the 2020 turkey season. It’s years in the making leading up to opening day March 21, 2020 and tagging out by 8:30 in the morning. May 2014 is when I first gained access to the property. It was close to the end of turkey season when a…

Several North Georgia Hiking Trails Reopen

Back on March 27, 2020, most trails and trailhead access points in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests were closed in an attempt to keep the public safe from the COVID-19 virus. I was a bit dumbfounded by the move at the time. In fact I had just finished writing a blog with a list of some…

Hike To Opossum Creek Falls

Have you even been riding, see a sign, and you just couldn’t not stop? Happened to me on Sunday. I was up outside the community of Long Creek, South Carolina. I just finished a 2.9 mile hike to Sid’s Falls in the Sumter National Forest and decided I’d head over to Long Creek Falls to…

To Get This Yuchi WMA Buck, Last Day Was The Best Day

By John Zebro It was Oct. 21, 2017. We’d been hunting for the last three days thanks to the Yuchi WMA check-in hunt. I managed to drag three guys from base to go hunting with me on this expedition. The four of us had seen plenty of does, but for a WMA that is known…

Dealing With The Virus… Works Best From Bottom Up

It still feels like we’re waiting on the alarm to go off to end a nightmare. Or, depending on your perspective, maybe parts of this have been more like a dream. This virus is deadly serious, potentially from a health standpoint and for certain economically. But maybe for some folks this warped reality the past…

Frying Okefenokee Swamp Mudfish

It’s been said when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well the same can be said for mudfish. When the Swamp gives you mudfish, make mudfish nuggets. Despite what many say,  mudfish meat is very mild tasting and doesn’t require a bunch of exotic seasonings or cooking methods to make it edible. Try this, and…

Giving Back

John D. Rockefeller was one of the wealthiest men to ever live. He amassed a fortune worth billions in today’s money, so it’s easy to see why his name sticks out on the pages of history books still today.  What the history books don’t talk about very much though is the real legacy he left…

I Worshipped Turkeys

I used to worship turkeys. From about my junior year in high school well into adulthood, my pure reason for living was wrapped solely into one single thing: killing wild turkeys. In fact, I had decided that whenever I left this world, I wanted my lasting legacy to be that I was a great turkey…

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