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Fishing
Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield (FS/HAAF) is located near the city of Savannah and serves as home to the United States Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. However, it is also home to some great fishing opportunities, and it is open to the public. This 285,000-acre installation hosts a variety of managed recreational fishing ponds, two rivers and…
Everybody gets excited about March Madness, but for bass fishermen it has nothing to do with basketball. Big bass move shallow this month, and March is an excellent time to catch a lot of bass with a good chance at a personal best. Lake Oconee is one of your best bets in the state for…
Wassaw Sound is grumpy. Its muttering is clearly audible as the boat sloshes slowly and heavily eastward toward the rising sun and open water. From the looks of things, we’re not going to be seeing much of that sun. Beyond the headland, its trees swaying, the sea and dull gray clouds appear, somewhere far, far…
There are five things this article is going to do for you. And improving on an increasing trend here at GON, this article will be enhanced with supporting video. This article is about catching stripers on Lake Lanier in March. Much of what you find here applies in one way or another to stripers in…
When you think of the most popular fish to catch in Georgia, I doubt a white catfish will be high on your list. In fact, you would probably have to dig deep to even describe what the species looks like… if you know. That is a shame, as the lesser-known whiskerfish is extremely abundant in…
March is the month saltwater anglers look forward to with anticipation. The colder weather is starting to be behind us, and while the wind may blow a bit, the water is warming, and the saltwater fishing will be really hot very soon. The first fish we look forward to tackling as the weather begins to…
March is a great month to go fishing just about anywhere in Georgia. Warming waters turn fish on, and they move shallow and feed. With so many great choices, it can be hard to pick one place to go. Consider Bartletts Ferry, also known as Lake Harding, on the Chattahoochee River just south of West…
For anyone who has fished with Angelo Koundourakis or had a conversation with him, you know it’s impossible to capture him in an article. But for those who have never had the honor of meeting Andy, we’ll try to give you a snapshot of this remarkable man. My favorite Andy story happened in the mid-70s…
Most southern anglers land an occasional yellow perch while chasing crappie or bluegill. For Tom Lewis, catching the brightly colored fish is an annual mid-winter obsession. “I go every chance I get, once the bigger ones start biting,” said Tom, who fishes the deep, cold waters of the Savannah River below Clarks Hill Dam. “The…
Sheepshead are where you find them, and for some anglers they are hard to find. This is especially true in the winter here in Georgia. But, many of us are looking in the wrong places—places where you caught them in the summer. Guess what? They aren’t there this time of year! Ordinarily we can find…
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