Scrapbook Bonus – May 2025

Steve Vollrath landed a flathead catfish on West Point Lake while fishing a Zoom green-pumpkin Brush Hog.

Dwayne Muse, of Calhoun, shot this Gordon County 10-pointer last Nov. 3.

Terry Ball, of Habersham, killed two coyotes at the same time—good practice for the Coyote Cull.

Lainey Coleman, of Harlem, reeled in a 6.23-lb. bass from a Columbia County pond behind her house.

Walker County produced a nice gobbler for Trey Mchan, of Dalton, last season.

Warren and Meliah Rodgers, of Chalybeate Springs, fished the Altamaha and came out with a load of cats.

Sutton Slover, of Alpharetta, arrowed his first bear on opening day of bow season on Dawson Forest WMA.

UGA sophomore William Knight, of Athens, with his first bow-kill in Morgan County, a 190-lb. 8-pointer.

Logan Thornton avoided the rain one morning with an early morning gobbler harvest in Jones County. The beard measured at 11 3/4 inches.

GON subscriber Dane Mason used his dad’s old Savage .308 to take down this Morgan County buck after a two-year chase.

Kaefus Abernathy, of Lula, rolled an opening-morning mountain gobbler at the Chattahoochee WMA last season.

GON subscriber Chris Casseen, of Carroll County, harvested a 300-lb. boar in Quitman County earlier this year.

Hunter Shultz, of Eatonton, killed this 7-pointer in Greene County.

Haralson County’s Chad Folsom took a mature doe on the Tallapoosa River VPA in the archery-only area.

Robert Clark came face to face with a 6 1/2-foot diamondback rattlesnake in Ludowici. Safe to say Robert won that battle!

David Dunn, of Sylvester, submitted this Worth County 11-pointer into Week 9 of last year’s Truck-Buck Contest.

Leah VanSant, of Ellijay, was fishing with guide Eric Crowley on Carter’s Lake on July 4 when she caught her first-ever fish. She certainly set the bar high with this big striper.

Billy Kastner, of Demorest, was hunting in Wilkes County when he harvested this 10-pointer on Nov. 12.

Fishing near the Highway 76 bridge on Lake Chatuge, Chris Walls caught this 4.38-lb. rainbow trout with a spinnerbait.

One of the biggest white crappie that Beth Tyner, of Murrayville, has ever caught was during a trip on Lake Lanier back in March.

Casey Carden, of Danville, with his Twiggs County 11-pointer that netted 140 even and placed third in Week 8 of Truck-Buck.

GON subscriber Joe Gooden, of Forsyth County, harvested this Dawson County gobbler with 1 5/16-inch spurs and a 10 1/2-inch beard.