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Fishing
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…
Jenna Thomas, 22, of Rome, nearly doubled the Coosa River freshwater drum record on May 16. Her 10-lb., 13.6-oz. fish beat the previous record of 5-lbs., 11.3-ozs. When she broke the record, she was fishing with her friends, Brian Justice and Noah Guy. “We were fishing from the bank on some private land. We bank…
Tap, tap! The underwater thumps on my little plastic 4-inch offering resonated down the graphite rod to my hand. I pointed the rod tip to the water, took up the dip in the line, and drove the thin-wired, razor sharp 1/0 Gamakatsu home. Shortly after crossing his eyes, and sharp as a ray of sunshine…
Parker Guy, a rising senior at Irwin County High School, was recently named one of 12 young anglers who made the 2019 Bassmaster High School All American Fishing Team. There were 400 nominations from 35 states submitted, and Parker was the only Georgia angler represented. Parker’s accolade came with a four-day trip to Texas where…
At 3 a.m. I was receiving my boat instructions to ensure a safe journey 65 miles east to the blue waters of the Gulf Stream. “Get comfortable. We have a four-hour ride,” said Capt. Ryan Howard. Ryan would be our captain aboard the 31-foot Crap Shoot, a Custom Carolina boat made by Clem Willis that…
It was an overnight fishing trip to remember in the upper stretches of Lake Oconee for Lynn Lucas, of Eatonton, and his friend Will Hawn. Lynn, who turned 78 years old at the end of May, said they fished the night of May 8 and into the morning of May 9. By daybreak, they had…
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