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Changes have occurred inside the WMA quota-hunt application process. With the exception of wheelchair-only hunts, if you—or your child—are planning to apply for an upcoming WMA big- or small-game quota hunt, it will have to be done through a new quota hunt system on the Georgia DNR website. Deadlines to apply for these hunts are…
We’ve got a couple of impressive new records to report this month, a big Toccoa River rainbow trout and the coveted West Point flathead catfish record. Last year at this time, GON was reporting on trout populations devastated in the Toccoa River tailrace by warm-water discharges associated with construction at Blue Ridge Dam. A lot…
Based on the bucks that made GON’s exclusive Fab 40 list, we just experienced Georgia’s best deer season ever for high-scoring bucks. Georgia produced five bucks that scored high enough to make the elite Boone & Crockett record book, which tied the all-time record for Booners killed during one season. The best non-typical killed last…
Early on the morning of April 28, 38 captains and their crews eased away from their Lanier launch sites only to find themselves in a thick shroud of fog which enveloped them and their surroundings. With absolute stillness and not a breath of wind, distant-echoed voices could be heard, but vision was limited to 50…
It’s great to see a notable sports group like the Atlanta Falcons taking a day and thanking those soldiers who have been wounded in military duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. On June 12, the Falcons hosted the “5th Annual Fishing with the Falcons” event on Lake Lanier. They had 26 boats loaded down with military…
West Point Lake anglers will benefit from the efforts of Boy Scout Jacob Buchanan. The 15-year-old, of Sharpsburg, spent Saturday, May 12 with six other Boy Scouts from Troop 897, out of Newnan, and sank PVC-style fish attractors in Wehadkee Creek on West Point Lake. Jacob had to plan, organize and carry out the project…
Just prior to one of the biggest boating and lake-destination weekends of the year, reports of another person fighting serious infection from a flesh-eating bacteria is not what folks want to hear. A Lake Sinclair man is the fourth reported Georgia case in the past several weeks of necrotizing fasciitis, a serious infection often referred…
Lake Oconee’s 22-year-old largemouth record was broken the morning of May 14 when lake-resident Bill Brantley caught a 12-lb., 14-oz. fish on a Texas-rigged lizard. Bill and his wife Pam, both of Buckhead, were dragging 6-inch, watermelon-chartreuse lizards off a brushed-up ledge in 15 feet of water. Bass were packed in tight on the ledge,…
PGA Tour Pro Vaughn Taylor had the week off from golfing. So he went fishing and caught the new Savannah River Record striper on Monday. Vaughn, of Evans, caught the 56-lb., 2-oz. behemoth May 7 on a bucktail jig just below the Clarks Hill Dam. It took him more than 20 minutes to fight and…
There was nervous anticipation on the GON Forum several days prior to the March 23 event for disabled sportsmen on Lake Lanier; the weather forecast was less than ideal with the potential for strong storms and lightning. However, after seeing a slight break in the weather window with a day to go, Tim Rowe, aka…
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