Scrapbook – April 2024

This 39.94-lb. blue caught Dec. 3 on the Oconee River is a personal best rod-and-reel catfish for Eli Carey, of Lyons.

Seth Hutchinson, of Dalton, hiked in on public land in October and caught this 26 1/4-inch long rainbow. “By far the biggest rainbow we have seen come out of public water in Georgia,” said Grant Essasky, who was on the trip.

Paul Kendall Jr., of Mansfield, got this Baldwin County 10-pointer when early freezing weather hit on Nov. 1.

Ryan Harkins with late season, silent gobbler. “This gobbler was wore out,” Ryan said. “He was 16 pounds, had a 12.5-inch beard, and some sharp 1.5 inch spurs.”

Musella’s Troy Hodges with his bow-buck from Crawford County taken on Nov. 3.

Thirteen points on this Early County buck killed last season on Nov. 6 by Garrett Bennett, of Blakely.

Jenee Thompson, of Hartwell, said it felt like winning the Super Bowl when she dropped this Hart County 10-point on Nov. 22. She called him “Broke Tine.”

Guy Hammond, of Statham, caught this Oconee County buck following a doe Dec. 5.

Thomas Pye’s Upson County gobbler had three beards measuring 10 7/8, 9 5/8 and 9 inches. It was 12:25 p.m. bird.

Keller Groover, 15, and Levi Lane, 16, with their opening-morning ducks taken during a hunt in Bryan County.

Grayson Blair, 17, of Gainesville, with a 350-lb. hog that he shot on New Year’s Eve at Paradise Hunting Club in Warren County.

Jason Hawkins and his wife Leigh Anne had one of their best fishing days ever Oct. 7 on Lake Lanier. They had about 30 nice crappie when Jason’s ultralight bent over and he thought he was hung. Turned out to be a 19.25-lb. flathead catfish.

Shawna Jowers Fowler, of Fitzgerald, with her Ben Hill County 12-point buck that she killed on Nov. 22.

A 10-acre tract in Cobb County produced this 8-point bow buck for Rob Bounds, of Dallas. The buck came to a scrape at 9 a.m. on Oct. 28.

Robbie Herndon, of Gray, only had night pics of this Baldwin County 12-pointer until it slipped up on Oct. 30.

Gary Phillips, of Douglasville, shot this Douglas County 10-pointer on Nov. 4.

Subscriber Joe Tolbert, of Greensboro, kills a good Greene County buck most seasons. Joe got this 10-pointer Nov. 5.

Braselton’s Mark Van Dette with a Taylor County 9-point buck that was a few minutes behind a doe on Nov. 9.