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Fishing
A new Georgia state record has been set for the heaviest vermilion snapper caught by a woman angler. The record-setting fish was caught by Stacey T. Pope, of Brunswick, on April 7, 2023. The fish weighed 5-lbs., 5.56-ozs., breaking the previous record of 3-lbs., 14.4-ozs. set in 2018 by Alli DeYoung, of Savannah. Pope caught…
Koob Moua, from Monroe, didn’t set out to establish a new Lake Oconee record for blue catfish. In fact, Koob seldom even fishes for catfish, but he might from now on. On March 22, Koob joined his brother Jacob Moua and their friend Justin Pledger in a 16-foot aluminum Bass Tracker boat. Using light tackle,…
Glenn Settles knew the process quite well when he boated a big channel catfish. He would have to get this fish to a set of registered scales, contact the WRD for species confirmation and have two unrelated witnesses who would agree to testify to what they saw. And, if at all possible, he wanted to…
You never know if the next bite on the line is going to be a three-finger crappie or a wall-hanging trophy. Just ask James King, of Rome, who recently entered the first black crappie for GON’s Lake & River records from the northwest Georgia river. On March 19, he was fishing the Coosa near Rome when…
“Bigger is better!” It’s a common phrase in many circles, and that turn of words might be heard most where fishing takes place… but maybe not in the circles of Georgia fly-fishermen who target trout on Peach State waters. When you join the fold of fly-fishermen who chase trout in Georgia, more often than not,…
How often do we drive over a body of water, gaze out and muse, “There ought to be fish there… and there, and there…” and wish we were in a boat checking out those hunches? Motoring over Lake Sinclair on 441, past Little River and Lakeside landings, drives me nuts. I’m crisscrossing the Oconee, Ogeechee,…
As Chris Bailey and I loaded up the boat near Perry, we were excited to be heading down to Dodge PFA near Eastman, featuring 104-acre Steve Bell Lake. The lake opened for fishing back on June 26, 1992. It’s been open for a little more than 30 years, so how is it doing today? Known for…
After one of the warmest early springs I can remember, a series of mini cold fronts have blanketed the state for the past couple of weeks. Currently, as I’m typing this, I can see the last bit of frost melting off the hood of my pickup truck in the backyard. But, on the TV in…
A solid bass right off the bat is always nice—takes some pressure off when you need a picture fish. On the contrary, it’s a bad feeling when hours tick by and cast after cast go unnoticed. We know that feeling too, because after a bass that hit in the first 10 minutes of our morning,…
April at Eufaula usually means shallow bass in grass, but there is an even better pattern. Get off the bank away from the crowds and catch postspawn bass already stacking up before moving to their summer holes. No hindsight ip unit displayed. Lake Walter F. George, called Eufaula by most fishermen, is a big U.S.…
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