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Fishing
This story began in the strangest of places. I was at the grocery store looking for some good fresh crawfish for a low country boil. At the seafood department of the store, I quickly found several packages, and they all had a couple of common and in my book significant problems. Not only were they…
Robert Attaway holds the current redbreast record for the Altamaha River with a fish certified at 10.16-ounces. Robert caught the redbreast on June 9, 2016.
Many of our lakes and rivers are loaded with large, trophy-sized trash fish that no one really cares about fishing for because they are supposedly not that good to eat. Carp and gar are at the top of that list, and even if their taste and table quotient is questionable, they sure are sporting. Just…
All spring we have enjoyed catching bass in shallow water, but June has anglers thinking deep on many lakes. Warming water makes bass head to the deeper summer structure and cover, and following the bass to deeper water is usually the best bet. However, a trip to Eufaula in June can offer the best of…
In April of last year, we did an article on catching tripletail off the beach at Jekyll Island. In what most biologists believe is a spawning gathering, these fish float along on their sides just under the surface. It’s sight fishing at its finest, and it happens each year beginning in late March and early…
When it comes to Allatoona striper fishing in June, Russell Dobbs, of Dallas, has acquired a good knowledge on how to catch them in the summertime heat. Russell has landed his fair share of June stripers in his 20 years of fishing Allatoona. When Russell first started learning how to catch stripers, it was all…
Kristen Brown caught a 10-oz. shadow bass on the Flint River on June 1, 2016, and in doing so Kristen established a new species that is now recognized for record status in Georgia. Kristen, of Baconton, set a new state record for shadow bass, catching the 9 1/4-inch fish on the Flint River in Albany.…
If you want to catch a lot of bass on a beautiful lake with a natural shoreline and clear water, head to Lake Russell. Just make sure you keep some small spotted bass for a fish fry! Lake Russell is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake on the Savannah River between Hartwell and Clarks…
Robert Attaway set a mark to beat with the current warmouth record for the Altamaha River. Robert’s warmouth was certified at 1-lb., 0.9-oz.. He caught the big warmouth bream on May 20, 2016.
Mention the word hydrilla to a farm pond fisherman, and you’re apt to be rewarded with a look of total disgust. And likely the only folks who detest this pond-blanketing weed more than pond fishermen are WRD Fisheries biologists. When WRD undertook the transformation of the aging three-lake chain at Evans County Public Fishing Area,…
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