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Scrapbook – September 2018
Reader Contributed | September 8, 2018
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Kevin Charleston grew up on Lake Michigan, and he’s catching Lake Burton trout using the same methods he learned up there. He’s trolling the main-lake channel during the heat of the summer with a watermelon-colored trolling spoon 25 feet deep on a downrigger. This rainbow weighed 7-lbs., 3-ozs. on Kevin’s digital scales, well above the certified lake record of 5 1/2 pounds.
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Craig Morrison, of Ball Ground, killed a big Cherokee County gobbler opening morning last season. The bird had 1 1/2-inch hooks and an 11 1/2-inch beard.
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Chuck Morgan got this gobbler March 27 in Murray County after three days of tight-lipped toms. The mountain bird had spurs 1 2/16 and 1 1/16 inches long, and he weighed 19-lbs., 7-ozs.
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The Lake Chatuge hybrid bass bite this summer has been the best bite guide Jeremy Seabolt has seen in quite a while. Jeremy said his guide trips like this one have been catching hybrids on downlined bluebacks 20 to 40 feet deep.
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Macon’s Kyle Pownall and his son Kellen show off Kyle’s Twiggs County 8-pointer killed last season on Nov. 17.
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Meriwether County produced this 11-point buck for Keith Johnson, of Senoia. The buck was chasing a doe on Nov. 12.
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Rough neighborhood? This Sumter County 10-pointer had seven tines broken off from fighting. Debra Sloan Durden killed the buck Nov. 5 when it came out grunting and chasing a doe.
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Libbi Collins, of Cordele, was hunting a Crisp County food plot last Oct. 29. This 8-point buck checked some does, then was slipping down a trail behind her stand when Libbi made a 60-yard shot.
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Hunter Humphrey was with his pawpaw, Lemarr Humphrey, of Rome, in June when they caught this blue cat on a limb hook in a creek off the Altamaha River.
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After not seeing a deer all morning, this Taliaferro County 9-pointer stepped out in a shooting lane for Anthony Faust, of Sugar Hill.
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Hunting a new scrape with his climber paid off for Milledgeville’s Andy Thigpen Nov. 13 in Hancock County.
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This Walton County 8-point was checking scrapes on an old road when Jayson Mauldin, of Social Circle, shot the buck at 50 yards with his son’s 7mm08.
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Frank Grizzle, of Danielsville, was hunting Wilkes County last Nov. 6 and had just passed a 6-pointer when this 8-point stepped out.
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It had just stopped raining last Oct. 23 in Candler County when this 9-pointer buck came out chasing a doe. One shot from Ricky Jones, of Metter, dropped the buck.
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This Gordon County 8-pointer was killed opening morning of gun season last year by Mike Jones, of Calhoun.
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Liz Murdock, of Dawsonville, shot her biggest buck during muzzleloader week last season. Liz killed the 8-pointer in Dawson County on Oct. 14 the first time ever using a muzzleloader. She said her husband Tim picked out the perfect hunting spot for her.
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