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Fishing
One evening, Seth Shoults headed out to the Etowah River specifically to set a new waterbody catfish record. He didn’t just break a record. In fact, he established two new records in less than an hour of each other with two different species. The angler from Cartersville regularly fishes the Etowah River in northwestern Georgia.…
By Tom Lewis The Kids Can Fish Foundation is a nonprofit charity based on Brunswick that was created in 2020 by a youth angler named Caroline. What was intended to be a small family based charity has blossomed into a nationally recognized entity with corporate and local sponsors contributing with the vested interest of getting…
Rachel Harrison is a serious angler who has years of fishing under his belt. She laughs when she says she may have trouble getting family and friends to accompany her on future fishing trips. She recently broke the Oostanaula River record for flathead catfish with a fish that was officially weighed by WRD at 40-lbs., 13-ozs.…
Miles Zachary was not surprised this time. He had already done it once, not even a year before, but now, on Sunday, April 30, 2023, he looked at his rare catch with amusement and awe. The Baxley native had just caught his second flounder around the confluence of the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers where the…
On April 1, Brandon Corbitt, of Homerville, along with his son Levi, decided to make a late-morning trip to the Satilla River to try their luck at bass fishing. After making the drive to the Atkinson boat ramp and launching their boat, the pair of anglers headed down river with the midday sun directly overhead.…
Twelve of the top high school anglers in the country have been selected as new members of the notable Bassmaster High School All-American Fishing Team presented by Academy Sports + Outdoors. “For nine years, the Bassmaster High School All-American program has identified and honored some of the most accomplished student anglers in the country,” said…
Shoal bass anglers gearing up to fish Yellow Jacket Shoals need to put the brakes on those thoughts. After hearing that new legislation designed to protect fishing access to navigable streams has passed its final step, some may have thought that section of the Flint River was back open to public access. Although Senate Bill…
When Gunner Thrift, of Raybon, made a trip to the Satilla River days before his 18th birthday, he had no idea what early birthday surprise the south Georgia river had in store for him. “On April 7, I was fishing with my dad and his friend on the Satilla down at Flat Woods Bluff. It’s…
Whether your bread-and-butter is wigglers and crickets or Beetle Spins and bugs, May is a prime month to have some fishing fun while slinging baits to bream beds. GON reached out to the WRD Fisheries experts and asked these biologists what their top picks were for their areas. Below is what they had to say.…
Georgia is blessed to have a smorgasbord of state parks littered across the state in just about every possible direction. Little Ocmulgee State Park is such a place, located in south Georgia just outside of McRae-Helena. It has about everything you could expect from a top-notch weekend destination. Originally founded in the 1930s, this property…
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