Scrapbook Bonus – July 2016

Mason Howard, of Dexter, with a Laurens County bird that was gobbling good during the afternoon on April 4. The big gobbler weighed 21 pounds, had a 10-inch beard and spurs that measured 1 1/2 inches and 1 1/8 inches.

Carrollton’s Mike Lyle was hunting a Harris County food plot last Nov. 12 when this 8-pointer came out and began working five does. It is Mike’s best buck in 31 years of deer hunting.

Tyler Peacock was close to the GON official Satilla River largemouth record of 12 pounds with this 11-lb., 6-oz. bass that he caught in May.

A Turner County food plot produced this 8-point buck last Oct. 24 for Jeremy Poole, of Ashburn.

Brian Quillian, of McDonough, was fishing a bass tournament on Lake Lanier in April, dragging a Carolina-rig with a Zoom green-magic colored Trick Worm, when this big striped bass hit the worm. Brian estimates the 36-inch striper weighed 18 to 22 pounds.

GON member Logan Shaw, 18, of Hull, with his Madison County 9-pointer from Week 9 of the Truck-Buck contest.

Larry Rountree watched the sunrise Easter morning in the Screven County woods, taking this 21-lb. gobbler with 1 1/2-inch spurs and an 11 1/2-inch beard.

Ernie Mosley, of Townsend, said the McIntosh County gobblers didn’t get fired up until the final week of the season. He shot this bird on the last day.

Randy Erwin with a 27-inch, 10-lb. brown trout caught from the Soque River near Clarkesville.

Taylor Gravitt, 17, of Cumming, with a Crawford County 9-pointer she killed Nov. 1. Her online Truck-Buck entry has more pics and a great hunt story by her father. See it at www.gon.com.

Dylan Davis, 17, and his uncle Corey Bosarge with a nice Jefferson County gobbler taken the morning of April 3.

Hunting through the rain paid off last Nov. 9 for Joe Hill, of Winder, when he shot this Greene County 8-pointer.

John Robinson, of Covington, shot this 13-pointer in Walton County on Dec. 6.

Coach Ronnie Rich doesn’t have much time to hunt during football season, but he made his limited time pay off and got this Lee County 8-pointer on Oct. 24.

Carle Howell, 19, of McIntyre, caught—and released—her biggest fish ever on a stretch of the Ocmulgee River in Dodge County on Memorial Day weekend. She was using a Louisiana pink for bait.