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June Is Time To Check Out Some Kids’ Fishing Events

School is out, and the fish ponds are open! June is the month when it’s pretty easy to find a Kids’ Fishing Event taking place, even if you have to ride a little piece to get to one. If you can’t make one of these scheduled events, it doesn’t matter. There are so many public…

Brain Matter & Other Things

Surely, if you put in enough time in the deer stand, you probably have been busted. You know that terribly unsettling feeling that you get when a deer catches your scent in the wind, raises its nose a few times and blows loud enough to scare off any other deer nearby. Well, the whitetail deer…

Letters To The Editor: June 2023

What About Extending Small-Game Season? Dear GON, Since the increase in deer season, this has decreased the days of the small-game season. Even though the small-game season comes in during November, you really can’t hunt public hunting or even private areas for rabbits when the deer season is in due to dogs disturbing deer hunters…

Hunter’s Journal: Nighttime Hunt For Monster Boar

By Dave Warner  So, a sizable portion of hunting has gotten a bad name. The bad press comes from hunters who hunt for trophies and not to provide food, help with invasive species eradication or do dangerous critter removal. I don’t want to pass judgment on folks who hunt for trophies, but it’s just not…

Conservation Law Enforcement Corner – June 2023

The Conservation LE Corner is designed to highlight the efforts of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement Division (LED) officers who, among their many duties, protect Georgia’s wildlife, sportsmen and natural resources from game-law violators. The following account is provided by DNR LED. Warren County: On Oct 12, 2021, Sgt. Matt Garthright received a complaint of a…

Scrapbook – June 2023

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Spy Cam – June 2023

Email pictures to [email protected]. Please include your name, GON subscriber number, hometown, county where the picture was taken, date, time and any interesting details for a caption. Or mail to GON Spy-Cam, PO Box 1379, Madison, GA 30650.      

Navy Takes Hartwell Win At ABA Military Team Bass Tournament

The team of Shaun Flanagan and Curt Poggenpohl put in three good days to win the 32nd annual Military Team Bass Tournament, presented by American Bass Anglers and Caymas Boats, held May 3-5 on Lake Hartwell. Launching at Green Pond Landing in Anderson, S.C., Flanagan and Poggenpohl landed three consecutive daily tournament limits of five…

Un-Pasturized Porkers

Cows are just rude. Not to mention unsanitary. There ain’t a tree within  40 yards. I ain’t quite as spry as I used to be… Sorry, but you’ve been to this page long enough to know how I think. (Warning: seek psychiatric help immediately.) All that zipped through as I stood in the middle of…

Wet A Line

It has been often said, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Well, I’ll bend it a little to make sure that we include our moms, sisters and daughters. That’s a great lead into this month’s topic. Our…

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