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A profound sorrow hangs heavy across a series of tight-knit communities in southwest Georgia after the tragic loss of a popular high-school junior who drowned while duck hunting on Lake Seminole. Southwest Georgia Academy multi-sport athlete Matthew Jernigan, 17, drowned on the morning of Jan. 7 after the boat carrying him and classmates Payson Trawick…
30-30 Ministries is nearing its fund-raising auction at the Ward Auction Company (Georgia Auctioneer License # AU-C002893) in Cordele on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. For those who can’t attend the live auction, there is an ONLINE OPTION where folks can bid. The online bidding has already began at www.wardauctioncompany.com. "Anyone can go to the website,…
Let someone try to tell you sportsmen don’t care about the heritage and future of deer hunting in Georgia. Forget how few hunters showed up for state-held public meetings no one knew about, let them talk to the rural mail carrier who delivers to GON’s office, or to the GON folks who spent four weeks…
The unusually cold temperatures we’ve been experiencing could impact fishing this month and also into the spring. A major die-off of shad—the small baitfish that are the primary forage for bass, stripers and other predatory fish anglers love to catch—could make catching fish tough over the short-term because there’s so much natural food readily available…
Justin Sapp, of Cochran, is one patient bear hunter. Two previous years, he was on the stand many hours but never saw a bear. His luck changed Dec. 14. He was hunting his family property in Twiggs County, arriving well before daylight and prepared to spend the day on the stand. The morning was slow.…
Oconee WMA in Greene and Hancock counties had an additional 1,390 acres in three tracts of land added to the already 4,800 acres available to hunters. According to WRD, the tracts are populated with a variety of wildlife inhabiting a mixture of hardwoods and planted pine stands, along with some large pasture areas. Hunters can…
When it’s too cold outside to do much of anything else, make plans to spend the weekend of Jan. 10-11, 2014 at The Dillard House for the Georgia Chapter National Wild Turkey Federation State Convention and Trade Show. Hosted just a few months before Georgia’s spring turkey season, there will be no better place for…
Each January, GON offers the chance to voice opinions on issues that affect sportsmen. This year the questions center around the future of deer hunting in Georgia as WRD prepares a 10-year deer-management plan. In addition to the annual Rate Your Season survey, other questions on this year’s January cover ballot center on important deer-management…
A $1,000 reward is being offered with hopes to catch the lowlifes who stole five deer stands in Crawford County from a group that puts on hunts for wounded veterans. The stands were stolen near Lizella from the non-profit group Americans Helping Wounded Veterans—which uses 100 percent of all funds to put on hunts, with…
An Georgia-based youth hunting and fishing ministry, 30-30 Ministries, is now collecting items that will be auctioned off by the Ward Auction Company (Georgia Auctioneer License # AU-C002893) in Cordele, Ga. on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. “We are thrilled to be working with the great sportsmen in south Georgia who approached us with the idea…
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