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Fishing
Barry Massey holds the current Lake Jackson black crappie record with a 3-lb., 8.5-oz. fish he caught on April 16, 1991. See all of GON’s Official Georgia Lake & River Records Requirements For Record Fish • Fish must be caught legally by rod and reel in a manner consistent with state game and fish regulations.…
Jan Allen Ward holds the current Lake Oconee hybrid bass record with a 14-lb., 4-oz. fish he caught on April, 3, 1991. See all of GON’s Official Georgia Lake & River Records Requirements For Record Fish • Fish must be caught legally by rod and reel in a manner consistent with state game and fish…
James Buice Jr., of Decatur, and a friend from South Carolina hadn’t caught a fish yet on Oct. 27, 1990 at Lake Oconee, when James got the strike of a lifetime. The two had just come in from deer hunting and were fishing the rip-rap along the Highway 278 bridge up the Oconee River when…
The new Paradise Public Fishing Area will open Sept. 22. The area, once known as Patrick’s Fishing Paradise, was acquired last year though the DNR’s Land Acquisition program. Paradise PFA, located 8 miles east of Tifton on Highway 82, contains more than 75 ponds ranging in size from less than 1 acre to 112 acres.…
For lawman Glynn Christian, it was one of those rare days. There was no worry of working bloody, heart-breaking traffic accidents; no robberies or break-ins; no subconscious fear of some off-the-wall bat brain going bonkers and ruining everybody’s days with a tire tool or a more sophisticated and conventional weapon. It was a full moon,…
On April 9, 1990, Lonnie Bradley, of Statesboro, grabbed his Zebco 404, bought some crickets and headed for Lotts Creek in Bulloch County to catch a mess of bream. He did just that… and more. Lonnie came home with a new state record and a line class world record for a 1-lb., 7.36-oz. redbreast sunfish.…
As soon as the jig ‘n pig hit the water, all three of us in the boat saw the massive swirl as a fish turned and swam toward the bait. A huge wake emerged, cutting a path through the shallow water. We all held our breath as the wake sped toward the spot where the…
Gary Brannon, of Columbus, broke the lake record at Goat Rock Reservoir with a monster 14-lb., 3-oz. largemouth. On March 13, Gary and Johnny Reed, also from Columbus, fished Goat Rock, located south of Bartlett’s Ferry on the Chattahoochee River, for 1 1/2 hours and caught 10 fish over 4 pounds, all in one spot!…
A few weeks ago, lure manufacturer and avid angler Jimmy Edge landed a huge 13-lb., 2-oz. largemouth bass at Lake Sinclair. It was the biggest bass Jimmy had ever caught, but he didn’t think it was a lake record. That’s because most Sinclair fishermen knew that a man had caught a monster fish from the…
As far as GON knows, this is the only photo there has ever been of the lake record largemouth for Lake Seminole. The fortunate angler was Charles Tyson, and his record-setting bucketmouth weighed 16-lbs., 4-ozs. and was caught May 23, 1961. If anyone knows the Tyson family or has access to additional photos, we’d like…
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