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Fishing
From a very early age, Kenny Johnson dreamed of winning bass fishing championships. His grandfather worked as a guide on West Point Lake in the late 1970s and competed in some of the first tournaments held there. Kenny’s father followed in the same footsteps, fishing tournaments in the lakes of west Georgia and east Alabama.…
On Saturday Oct. 7,, 2017, 39 kayak anglers descended on middle Georgia for the final competition of their respective tournament-trail seasons. For these anglers, it had been a long, tough campaign, their battles being waged on lakes and rivers across the state with one goal in mind—win the 2017 Georgia Kayak Bass Fishing State Championship.…
November is a magical time. Cool winds begin to blow, temperatures drop, and a table full of Thanksgiving food is just days away. For Joe Corley, of Waycross, November brings an entirely different agenda. While most outdoorsmen are trying to down a big buck, or readying decoys for the upcoming duck season, Joe is hitching…
By David Floyd I booked a trip with my go-to professional striper guide Doug Youngblood on Lake Lanier. He agreed to take one of my clients, Brady Daniels, and his 12-year-old son, Ethan, out on Thursday, Sept. 21. This wasn’t just another day on the water for me. I was looking forward to this very…
If you like fishing shallow rocks, wood and grass, Weiss is the place to be in November. Big Coosa spots and quality largemouth are around seawalls, logs and brush, feeding up for winter, and they are easier to target and catch on a wide variety of baits. The Coosa River flows out of Georgia at…
November is a great time to go bass fishing. Fish are feeding up for winter, they are on predictable patterns and boat traffic is way down. That last one may be the most important factor at Lanier. Magnum spots are feeding heavily, and you can fish all day without getting washed off the lake by…
One of the greatest challenges faced by modern man is a lack of free time to explore, learn and grow. Too often we are bogged down in routine tasks, leaving little time to try something new. As a fisherman and outdoorsman, I have tremendous natural resources and diverse habitats to explore in my native Georgia.…
October has to be one of my most favorite times of the year. With cooler temperatures, college football and hunting season upon us, it just doesn’t get better in the Peach State… or does it? I failed to mention my favorite species to chase this month. Whether you call them spots, reds, spottail bass or…
Stumps, lily pads, grass and plenty of big largemouth bass—Seminole had it all. Seminole has so many quality 3- and 4-lb. largemouth, if you stick with the places bass live and work for them, you can catch a good limit in October. Seminole is a 37,500-acre U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake with its dam…
Recent congressional steps were taken that could eventually bring some relaxed seasons and better bag limits for Georgia’s recreational offshore anglers. The goal would be to allow more flexibility to the federal folks when setting recreational seasons and bag limits for species like red snapper, grouper and cobia. Several saltwater fishing leaders, including Spud Woodward,…
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