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Fishing
There’s a new Georgia saltwater state record. The Coastal Resources Division (CRD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources announced a new Georgia men’s saltwater gamefish record for African pompano (Alectis ciliaris). The fish was caught back on Aug. 11, 2018 by Mike McCullough Jr., who was fishing near Navy tower R7 off the coast…
The Coastal Resources Division (CRD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources recently deployed 800 cubic feet of donated concrete sinkers as an enhancement to artificial beach reef BSF. The BSF reef is located 4 nautical miles southeast of Little Tybee Island. This is the second deployment of materials at BSF Reef in partnership with…
GON was in the boat with Mark Smith with Reel Time Guide Service on the morning of June 11, 2019 and put together a timely fishing report. Mark hosts an annual summer fishing trip for the Putnam County Middle School girls basketball team through Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Mark called on some buddies to help…
Two free, public forums aimed at developing more effective outreach strategies for promoting Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary will be held in Savannah this month. The Nature Conservancy will host the forums at Bass Pro Shop, 14045 Abercorn Street, Savannah, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday June 11 and on Thursday June 13,…
Anglers can no longer keep shoal bass from the only Florida river with a naturally reproducing, pure-strain population of the unique river bass. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) issued an executive order on June 5, suspending the harvest and possession of shoal bass from the Chipola River and its tributaries effective immediately.…
Any other November afternoon, you’d likely find me set up on a hardwood ridge waiting for a big whitetail to cross my path. But Nov. 2, 2017 was different. It had been hot as a firecracker for the past week or two, and I could barely see a single deer at our farm. I think…
Chris Cockerham and Ryan Hall are fishing buds. There isn’t a much better way to describe it. They live about 2 1/2 hours from each other and still find a way to fish together almost every weekend. Ryan lives in Hawkinsville, while Chris lives in Hilliard, Fla. When they met 3 1/2 years ago, they…
On this moonless night, several black specters flashed in front of the glowing green orbs and vanished just as quickly as they appeared. Slowly, cautiously, we moved closer to investigate the apparitions. Soon, more shadowy objects materialized and disappeared near the faint green glowing spheres illuminating parts of the dark water. No, we didn’t chase…
Each year more than 500,000 anglers from all over the nation come to Weiss Lake, an Alabama Power hydroelectric lake known as “The Crappie Capital of the World.” Many of them come to catch some big, tasty slabs. June of this year marks the 58th year anniversary of the Weiss impoundment, and this lake today…
June is a great month to catch both largemouth and spots on Lake Jackson. Both will hit topwater baits early along seawalls and shallow cover, and then the bass move deeper on points and humps to feed as the sun gets bright. Although spotted bass have about taken over Lake Jackson, there are still many…
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