Top Stories From 2018
100 Years At Thompson Pasture Hunting Club
As the memories begin to flow, so do a few tears; but like those recollections, they spring from joy. Eighty-nine-year-old Dent Newton can’t hold them back, and that’s OK. The big crowd on hand to honor the oldest member of Georgia’s oldest deer-dogging club has nothing but respect for this gentleman—a word that fits him…
A Look Back At The Deer Baiting Debate
Before hunting deer over bait became legal in Georgia’s Southern Zone, it was the hottest deer hunting topic ever debated amongst Peach State hunters. Tempers flared, things were said that shouldn’t have been, and it’s highly likely that some friendships were even lost over the issue. It was emotional. But then it happened. It took…
Clarks Hill December Ditch Bass
It’s December, which means the bass at Clarks Hill have moved to ditches in the backs of coves and can be caught on a variety of baits. The quality of the largemouth on this Clarks Hill pattern is good all this month, and this is a pattern that produces well this time of year. With…
Monster Browns Of The Chattahoochee
Its banks are not much to look at. Muddied. Eroded. Developed. Trashed. No doubt, the Chattahoochee River, where it runs through the northern metro Atlanta suburban landscape, leaves little to the imagination of trout anglers anywhere else. But here in Georgia, we learned long ago that the water that runs between those adjectives is clean…
No Baiting For Northern Zone Deer Hunters
UPDATE: Gov. Deal signs executive order directing DNR to address “inequity” in zones that regulate distance from feed for Georgia deer hunters. No baiting for Northern Zone deer hunters. Several proposed laws that included language that would have legalized hunting deer near feeders with no distance restriction for Northern Zone hunters failed, with significant political…
Story of Zeus: A Potential State-Record Buck
By now, many GON readers are familiar with the recent controversy that erupted after Lee Ellis killed a giant buck named “Zeus” on Nov. 16 that could end up being Georgia’s best typical buck ever taken with a bow. Within a few days of killing the big deer in a north Atlanta suburb, a story…
